Two visions of the trauma of disappeared people in Latin America had a central role at Sunday's Academy Awards.

Walter Salles' Oscar-winning ‘I’m Still Here’ is part of a Brazilian film revival driven by generous funding and other major ...

"Anora," a strip club Cinderella story without the fairy tale ending, was crowned best picture at the 97th Academy Awards on ...

I’m Still Here,” a film about a family torn apart by the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil for more than two decades, ...

Walter Salles’ I’m Still Here scooped the Best International Feature Film Oscar, marking the first time that an entry from ...

Tiny bottles of Don Julio with gold-colored metal straws. Crowd-control fences on the Walk of Fame. Creamy curtains encasing the red carpet. Inside the Dolby Theatre, Hollywood’s top stars came to ...

Walter Salles) is set during the darkest period of Brazil’s contemporary history. In 1964, the military carried out a coup financed by Brazilian capitalists and backed by the USA. On 31 March, while ...

When Big Issue spoke to Walter Salles, celebrated Brazilian director of Central Station, The Motorcycle Diaries and now I’m Still Here, his lead actress Fernanda Torres had not yet won a Golden Globe ...

The adaptation is by Murilo Haser and Heitor Lorega, but Salles himself knew the Paiva family well, spending much of his youth in their home in the Sixties, and this surely informs the film, not least ...

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These are all real people and real events, intimately captured by director Walter Salles in his first narrative feature since his 2012 adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. At the dinner ...