The Brazilian film “I’m still here” has been selected for the official competition at the 2024 Venice Film Festival and will compete for the Golden Lion, the Biennale announced on Tuesday (23). The Toronto Film Festival also confirmed the screening of the title Walter Salles (“Central Station” and “Motorcycle Diaries”).
The plot is inspired by the book of the same name by Marcelo Rubens Paiva which tells the story of her family. Set in Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, the film introduces the Paiva family: the father, Rubens, the mother, Eunice, and their five children. One day they suffer a violent and arbitrary act that will change the course of their lives forever. Eunice is forced to reinvent herself and chart a new destiny for herself and her children.
The title stars Fernanda Torres It is Selton Mello and features special participation by Fernanda Montenegro . The production marks the third partnership between Salles and Torres, who were together in “Foreign Land” (1995) and “The first day” (1998), and Montenegro’s reunion with the director, with whom he worked on the award-winning “Central Brazil“ (1998).
“I’m still here” marks Walter Salles’ third appearance at the world’s oldest film festival. He was in Italy in 2001 for the premiere of “Shattered April” and returned eight years later, in 2009, to receive the Robert Bresson Lifetime Achievement Award.
The Venice Film Festival starts on August 28 and runs until September 7. The Toronto Film Festival is scheduled to take place between September 5 and 15. Find out where and when the next film festivals are taking place.
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Source: CNN Brasil
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