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Two visions of the trauma of disappeared people in Latin America had a central role at Sunday's Academy Awards

A Brazilian film about a family torn apart by the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil for more than two decades, won the Oscar for best international film

INSIDE FILM: ‘I’m Still Here’ is inspired by the ‘disappearance’ of a real-life congressman in Seventies Brazil, and directed by Walter Salles, a childhood friend of the congressman’s family. It’s just the latest in a strange sub-genre of historical fiction made by filmmakers with insider access, writes Xan Brooks –…

Big Screen Spotlight | I'm Still Here director Walter Salles opens up about the powerful response the biographical drama has received around the world

Political resistance in movies often takes the form of protest, hunger strike or armed uprising

Brazilian-made dramas rarely last long in local cinemas

Abduction and murder of Rubens Paiva under the 1964-85 regime is retold in new box office hit I’m Still Here

Walter Salles’s first drama feature since 2012 tells the story of the Paivas, whose sunny 70s existence is wrecked by the arrest and disappearance of their father

Brazil’s president has nixed commemorations of the 1964 coup, possibly to avoid irking the military as senior officers facing jail for allegedly conspiring to stop Lula taking power after 2022 election