From the left: Selton Mello, Fernanda Torres, and Walter Salles attend the red carpet of the movie “I’m Still Here” at the 81st annual International Venice Film Festival on Sept. 1.Alberto Pizzoli/AFP via Getty Images
Oscar hopefuls. Latin American countries have made their submissions to the Best International Feature Film category at the 2025 Academy Awards. Peru’s pick is an Indigenous mystery drama, while Colombia’s follows the story of a woman boxer raised in a rural community without a television.
While some of these films are art-house productions without wide releases in their home countries, Brazil’s submission debuted in theaters last weekend and quickly became the top film in the country. I’m Still Here tells the true story of a woman and her family’s experience during the country’s 1964-1985 military dictatorship.
I’m Still Here won Best Screenplay at the Venice Film Festival earlier this year, sparking speculation that an Oscar nod could be next.
Walter Salles, the director of I’m Still Here, previously competed for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars with Central Station. He lost to the Italian wartime drama Life is Beautiful. What year was that?
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Salles is also well-known for The Motorcycle Diaries, which depicts the early life of Che Guevara and won an Oscar for Best Original Song.
Haitian Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé speaks during his installation ceremony in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Nov. 11.
Haitian Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé speaks during his installation ceremony in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Nov. 11.Clarens Siffroy/AFP via Getty Images
Haiti’s political and security crises intensified over the past week. The country’s transitional governing council fired its leader while gunfire at the Port-au-Prince airport prompted U.S. airlines and even United Nations aid planes to suspend flights.
Garry Conille, a former U.N. official who was serving as Haiti’s interim prime minister, was sacked by the transitional council last Friday amid disagreements and corruption allegations within the body. Conille sought to remove three council members that a government anti-corruption agency accused of graft, charges which they rejected.
On Sunday, the council named businessman Alix Didier Fils-Aimé as Conille’s replacement. Then, on Monday, gunshots hit three different airplanes at the Port-au-Prince airport. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration suspended all flights to Haiti for 30 days, while the U.N. announced it would suspend aid flights, though it was not immediately clear for how long.
The aid cutoff comes after the U.N. World Food Program announced in September that one in two Haitians experiences acute hunger. The poorly staffed and Kenyan-led Multinational Security Support Mission in Haiti, meanwhile, has been unable to wrest control of the capital back from gangs.
The week’s events led to new calls for action from neighboring countries. On Wednesday, the Organization of American States (OAS) backed a previous call from Haiti’s transitional council for the U.N. to intervene in Haiti with an official peacekeeping mission. The Vatican quickly followed suit in endorsing the appeal.
Haiti’s violence, instability, and humanitarian crisis “threaten the safety of the Haitian people, hinder a return to democratic governance, and obstruct the path toward long-term social and economic development, and could jeopardize security in the region,” the OAS’s permanent council said.
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