President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) congratulated actress Fernanda Torres for competing as best actress at Oscar 2025, whose prize took place this weekend.
Although “I’m still here” has won as best international film, Fernanda was unsuccessful to receive the statuette as best actress.
“Dear Fernanda, you honored Brazil with your brilliant performance in I’m still here and enchanted the whole world living the great Eunice Paiva. Receive a hug and a loving kiss and the janja (first lady), he said, via X.
Before, Lula had already celebrated the award for the movie. This was the first time in 97 Oscar editions that Brazil won a statuette.
“Today is the day to feel even more proud to be Brazilian. Proud of our cinema, our artists and especially pride of our democracy, ”he said.
Starring FERNANDA TORRES e Selton Mello, of Walter Salles It is an adaptation of the eponymous book written by Marcelo Rubens Paiva, based on the story of his family.
The film takes place in the 1970s, in the most intense period of the military dictatorship in Brazil, and accompanies the trajectory of the Paiva family, composed by Rubens (played by Selton Mello), Eunice (lived by Fernanda Torres) and her children.
The film focuses on the transformation in family life when Rubens Paiva is brought by military personnel and disappears without leaving traces.
With his body, having not been found to this day, the movie.
