Picture: Sony Pictures Classics
The winner of the best international feature film award at the 2025 Oscars is coming to Netflix in the United States. The streamer has just confirmed that the Brazilian political biographical film, also the highest-grossing film from Brazil since COVID, will land on May 17th, 2025.
Based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva’s biographical book, the movie is set in Brazil during the early 1970s. It is set against the backdrop of a military dictatorship that is increasingly tightening its grip on the population. Eunice Paiva, 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 written by Murilo Hauser and Heitor Lorega with Walter Salles directing. Fernanda Torres, Selton Mello, and Fernanda Montenegro lead the cast.
Naturally, given the status the movie has accumulated, it was well-received by critics and audiences alike. Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes in addition to its 97% score, the consensus among critics was that the movie was “Carried along by Fernanda Torres’ superb performance,” adding that it “poignantly explores a nation’s upheaval through one family’s search for answers.”
The film ultimately walked away with the Oscar for best international film, toppling Netflix’s own Emilia Pérez, which had served as France’s official submission and, at various stages, was the expected frontrunner. That said, Emilia Pérez was ultimately hampered by off-screen issues, ones we won’t relitigate here, which left the door open for one of the other contenders, such as The Girl with the Needle, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, or Flow, to take home the coveted gold statue.
The movie is heading to Netflix in the United States because of its first window deal with Sony Pictures Classics. The boutique label of Sony Pictures Releasing acquired the movie in May 2024 ahead of its long march to the Oscars with a film premiere at the Venice Film Festival before a qualifying theatrical run in November. More recently, the movie was added to PVOD services in mid-March before hitting SVOD via Netflix. It’s one of two major Sony movies heading to the US throughout May 2025, with the other being Paddington in Peru, due out on May 15th.
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I’m Still Here will begin streaming on Netflix in the United States on May 17th, 2025, for a period of 18 months, with it departing for Hulu on November 17th, 2026.
Picture: Sony Pictures Releasing International
