I'M STILL HERE

Monday 14th 8pm

A film from Brazil/France with English subtitles

International Film Oscar Winner

A mother is forced to reinvent herself when her family's life is shattered by an act of arbitrary violence during the tightening grip of a military dictatorship in Brazil, 1971.

One afternoon in 1971, Rubens Paiva, a former congressman and outspoken critic of Brazil's newly instituted military dictatorship, was taken from his home in Rio de Janeiro by government officials, told nothing more than that he must give a "deposition" to authorities, and disappeared. Adapted from his son Marcelo Rubens Paiva's memoir, this overwhelming, richly realized political drama from Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries) stays tightly wedded to the perspective of Rubens's wife, Eunice (a shattering Fernanda Torres), whose indefatigable search for the truth about her husband would stretch out for decades. A devastating true story, I'm Still Here is exhilarating in its portrayal of human tenacity in the face of injustice.           
Tickets £6.50                                       

(Run time 2hr 17min) 

With an unmissable performance by Fernanda Torres I'm Still Here is a powerful film that explores the permanence of love and grief.

Rotten Tomatoes Audience

A razor-sharp thriller, a painfully emotional tale of grief, and a deeply felt romance in which love is measured by absence

Sean P Means - The Movie Cricket