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The true story behind Brazil鈥檚 Oscar winner,聽I鈥檓 Still Here

Marcelo Rubens Paiva was 11 when armed men from Brazil's military dictatorship took his father away. The family would fight for years to prove what happened to him.

Marcelo Rubens Paiva was 11 when armed men came and took his father away. Brazil was under a military dictatorship at the time. Marcelo's father was an opponent and was killed for it. His mother Eunice Paiva was now alone, raising five children. For decades she fought for answers from the state. She became a prominent lawyer and human rights defender and helped to set up Brazil's Truth Commission. But when Eunice started to develop Alzheimer's disease it fell to Marcelo, by now a successful author, to tell the family's story. That story has been made into an Oscar-winning film - I'm Still Here. And it's reignited a national debate in Brazil, about the past and the present.

Presenter: Jo Fidgen
Interpreter: Fernando Duarte
Producer: Helen Fitzhenry

Get in touch: liveslessordinary@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp: 0044 330 678 2784

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