The trailer for Brazil's Oscar entry I'm Still Here (Ainda Estou Aqui) has been released ahead of the film's arrival in Irish cinemas in February.
I'm Still Here is the new film from director Walter Salles (Central Station, The Motorcycle Diaries) and stars Fernanda Torres, Selton Mello, and Fernanda Montenegro.
Written by Murilo Hauser and Heitor Lorega, the film is based on the book of the same name by Marcelo Rubens Paiva.
I'm Still Here was nominated for Critics Choice and Golden Globe Awards earlier this week and is Brazil's entry for International Film at next year's Oscars.
The synopsis reads: "Rio de Janeiro, early 1970s. Brazil faces the tightening grip of a military dictatorship.
"We are introduced to the Paivas: a father, Rubens (Selton Mello), a mother, Eunice (Fernanda Torres), and their five children. They live by the beach, in a rented house with doors constantly open to friends.
"The affection and humour they share among themselves are their own subtle forms of resistance to the oppression that hangs over the country. One day, they suffer a violent and arbitrary act that will forever change their lives.
"In the aftermath, Eunice is forced to reinvent herself and carve out a new future for herself and her children.
"The moving story of this family, based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva's bestselling memoir, helped to reconstruct an important part of Brazil's hidden history."
"When I first read I'm Still Here by Marcelo Rubens Paiva, I was deeply moved," said director Salles.
"For the first time, the story of the desaparecidos, the people snatched from their lives by the Brazilian dictatorship, was being told from the perspective of those left behind.
"In the experience of one woman - Eunice Paiva, a mother of five - there was both the story of how to live through loss and a mirror of the wound left on a nation.
"It was also personal: I knew this family and was friends with the Paiva children. Their house remains etched in my memory.
"During the seven years we spent creating I'm Still Here, life in Brazil veered dangerously close to that past - which made it all the more urgent to tell this story."
I'm Still Here opens in Irish cinemas on Friday 21 February.
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