Maria Lucrécia Eunice Facciolla Paiva (1929–2018) was admitted to the Order at the rank of Commander. On January 8 of this year, Brazil’s government established the Eunice Paiva Award for the ...

STORY — The story follows the life of Eunice Paiva, whose husband—former federal deputy Rubens Paiva—was taken from their home in 1971 and murdered by the Brazilian military dictatorship. Eunice Paiva ...

“I’m Still Here,” a Brazilian film about a family torn apart by the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil for more than two decades, won the Oscar on Sunday for best international film.

Brazilian political drama I’m Still Here won the prestigious prize for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards. The film, directed by Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries ...

The Walter Salles film stars Fernanda Torres as Eunice Paiva, the wife of Rubens Paiva, a former leftist Brazilian congressman who, at the height of the country’s military dictatorship in 1971 ...

The Walter Salles film stars Fernanda Torres as Eunice Paiva, the wife of Rubens Paiva, a former leftist Brazilian congressman who, at the height of the country’s military dictatorship in 1971 ...

The last Brazilian film to be nominated in the international category was Central Station in 1999, also directed by Walter Salles. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The Paiva family was among the many victims of the military regime in Brazil, which lasted for 21 years and was established following a coup d'etat by the armed forces in 1964. During this period ...

"I'm Still Here" is based on the true story of Rubens Paiva, a former lawmaker kidnapped by agents of the military regime in Rio de Janeiro in 1971. Eunice, who finds herself alone with five ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “I’m Still Here,” a film about a family torn apart by the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil for more than two decades, gave Brazil its first Oscar win on Sunday in ...

Film I’m Still Here, set upon about a family torn apart by the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil for more than two decades, gave Brazil’s first Oscars win on Sunday in the Best International ...

Meanwhile, the national enthusiasm around "I'm Still Here" has led fans to visit the house where the movie was filmed in Rio de Janeiro and the grave of Eunice Paiva in Sao Paulo, where she was ...