Directed by Walter Salles, one of Brazil's most celebrated filmmakers, the 2025 Oscar-winner I'm Still Here poignantly explores the haunting disappearance of Congressman Rubens Paiva, who was among the thousands of tortured and disappeared individuals during the military dictatorship from 1964-1985. The film is most powerful in its ability to reveal human resilience in the face of dramatic uncertainty and loss. Drawing from the real-life memoir of Paiva's son, I'm Still Here points its lens on a family's capacity to lean into joy alongside fear, hope in the midst of sorrow. The film evokes contemporary concerns in many places around the world as it considers what happens when a good life collides with political and social forces. 

Join us for a post-film discussion with Dr. Bruno Guaraná, Master Lecturer of Film & Television at Boston University which will be held immediately following the screening. 

Dr. Bruno Guaraná is originally from Recife, Brazil, and has earned his PhD degree in Cinema Studies from New York University. He has taught film and media for over a decade at New York University, Brooklyn College, and Baruch College, and has guest lectured at Columbia University and Connecticut College. His doctoral dissertation adopts an intersectional framework to investigate the negotiations of cultural citizenship in contemporary Brazilian cinema, television, and peripheral media. His research and teaching interests include Latin American and Brazilian Cinema; Documentary Studies; Media, Identity, and Representation; and Childhood and Youth in Films. Dr. Guaraná currently edits the “Page Views” column for Film Quarterly, for which he’s constantly looking for new and groundbreaking books in the field to introduce them to new readers and interview authors about their research.

Co-presented by the Global Film Series and the Arts and Humanities Division.

This event will be held in the Carling-Sorenson Theatre. 

FREE and open to the public.  Registration encouraged. Walk-ins welcome.