“This is not just a movie about a strong woman, though it certainly is that. It’s also about what authoritarian regimes do to keep people in line, the totalitarian tactic of making people doubt what they know they’ve seen by insisting on unabashed lies.”
—Alissa Wilkinson, NY Times

“How often do we get to watch a movie and recognize the unmistakable geniality that adorns a mother’s love? Rarely do we witness a performance that’s so unembellished and yet so memorable and moving.”
—Coleman Spilde, Salon

Winner of the Acacemy Award® for Best International Film at the 2025 Oscars®. 

BRAZIL, 1971 – Brazil faces the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres), a mother of five children is forced to reinvent herself after her family suffers a violent and arbitrary act by the government.

The film is based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva’s biographical book and tells the true story that helped reconstruct an important part of Brazil’s hidden history.