Film: I’m Still Here

I’M STILL HERE (2024) + local short film

Multi-awarded, including Oscar for best international feature film, one of the best films in recent years!

“When a former congressman is abducted from his beachfront home in 1970s Rio, his wife and children are left reeling – for decades – in Walter Salles’s Oscar-awarded drama starring an extraordinary Fernanda Torres. (…)Meticulous in its period detail, I’m Still Here unfolds in a vividly evoked early 1970s Rio, with two later chapters set in 1996 and 2014. Far-reaching in its themes, the picture represents Salles at his absolute best. It looks sublime: the director chose to shoot on various film stocks, with grainy, skittish Super-16 capturing the energy and excitement of being a teenager running riot on the streets of Rio, and 35mm bringing a pleasing, lived-in texture to the domestic scenes. A terrific soundtrack balances the irreverent energy of Brazilian Tropicália artists such as Tom Zé and Caetano Veloso against a pensive, brooding score by Warren Ellis”.  (Wendy Ide, The Guardian)

Event includes also the screening of a short film directed by a local filmmaker (North West), to be announced.