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\n\tDeadline\u2019s Read the Screenplay<\/a> sequence that includes the scripts behind awards season\u2019s buzziest motion pictures continues with I\u2019m Still Here, Central Station<\/em> and The Motorcycle Diaries<\/em> filmmaker Walter Salles<\/a>\u2018 private political drama from Brazil that simply made the Oscar shortlist<\/a> within the Best International Feature class.<\/p>\n \n\tMurilo Hauser<\/a> and Heitor Lorega<\/a> co-wrote the screenplay based mostly on Marcelo Rubens Paiva\u2019s memoir of the identical identify set throughout Brazil\u2019s navy dictatorship within the early Seventies. The central determine is Paiva\u2019s mother Eunice, a mom of 5 who’s compelled to reinvent herself and her household after her husband Rubens, a politician and engineer who opposed the regime, turned one of many authorities\u2019s desaparecidos <\/em>(the disappeared), and was tortured and killed.<\/p>\n \n\tFor Salles, the Portuguese-language movie is private: As a child knew the Paivas and was pals with their youngsters, with the household\u2019s Rio seashore home, which was open to all, one he spent many a day at listening to political discourse and music \u2014 an oasis of free thought in a repressive regime. \u201cTheir house remains etched in my memory,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n \n\tRELATED: \u2018I\u2019m Still Here\u2019 Review: Walter Salles\u2019 Love Letter To Brazil Is A Powerful Warning From History<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tThe story, he says, turned extra pressing as \u201cduring the past seven years we spent creating I\u2019m Still Here<\/em> life in Brazil veered dangerously close to that past,\u201d he mentioned, including, \u201cIn 2021, a president awarded medals of honor to torturers from that era. This film, conceived before the Bolsonaro years, unfortunately seems not only a film about a past gone by but also a film about the dangers of new forms of authoritarianism that threaten Brazil \u2013 not to mention the world.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tI\u2019m Still Here<\/em> reunites Salles together with his Oscar-nominated\u00a0Central Station<\/em>\u00a0and Foreign Land<\/em> star Fernanda Montenegro and her daughter Fernanda Torres, with whom the filmmaker has labored a number of instances. Selton Mello additionally stars.<\/p>\n \n\tDEADLINE RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tSony Pictures Classics<\/a>, which launched Central Station<\/em>, acquired<\/a> I\u2019m Still Here<\/em> out of the Cannes market and world premiered it at Venice<\/a>, the place it obtained a 10-minute ovation<\/a> and received Salles the director prize and Hauser and Lorega the screenplay prize. It has grow to be a field workplace<\/a> hit in Brazil, grossing $10.7 million within the house market by Sunday, making it the 12 months\u2019s prime title there. It hits U.S. theaters by way of SPC on January 17<\/a> after choosing up a pair of Golden Globe nominations<\/a> (for International Movie and for Torres), and a Critics Choice<\/a> nom.<\/p>\n \n\tHauser and Lorega, each with theater credit to their identify, beforehand teamed to write down Karim A\u00efnouz\u2019s Mariner of the Mountains<\/em> (2021) after Hauser wrote Cannes\u2019 2019 Un Certain Regard Grand Prix winner Invisible Life<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tRead their script under.<\/p>\n