SIFF

I'm Still Here

December, 17 2024 | 7:00 PM | Sebastiani Theatre

476 1st Street East

ALREADY OCCURED

Official Academy Awards Oscar Submission, Best International Feature

Winner, Best Screenplay, Venice Film Festival

Based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva’s memoir, I’m Still Here transports us to Rio de Janeiro in the early 1970s when Brazil’s dictatorship sought to exert its authority through detentions and disappearances. The latest from Walter Salles, director of the Oscar-nominated Central Station (TIFF ’98) and the Oscar-winning The Motorcycle Diaries (TIFF ’04), focuses on Eunice Paiva, whose lived to tell the harrowing experiences that transformed her into an activist, lawyer, and hero.

Ticket includes wine tasting | Doors Open at 6:15 pm, Film Starts Promptly at 7:00 pm

Details

  • Year 2024
  • Runtime 136 Minutes
  • Language Portuguese
  • Subtitles English
  • Country Brazil
  • Awards Best Screenplay at Venice Film Festival
  • Director Walter Salles
  • Screenwriters Murilo Hauser and Heitor Lorega
  • Producers Rodrigo Teixeira, Maria Carlota Bruno, and Martine De Clermont-Tonnerre
  • Cast Fernanda. Montenegro, Fernanda Torres, and Selton Mello
  • Cinematographer Adrian Teijido
  • Editor Affonso Gonçalves
  • Music Warren Ellis
  • Productions Design Carlos Conti

Location

Sebastiani Theatre

476 1st Street East

The Sebastiani Theatre Foundation is dedicated to offering first-class performing arts, films and creative educational programs that inspire and entertain the entire community while preserving and enhancing Sonoma’s treasured, historic Theatre for the enjoyment of current and future generations.

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