The Brazilian film, I'm Still Here, will be vying this weekend for Oscars for Best International Film and Best Picture.

And its star, Fernando Torres, already the winner in the best actress category at the Golden Globes, is also competing for an Oscar.

Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown talks with Torres for our arts and culture series, Canvas.

In the drama, I'm still here, we meet the large and loving Piva family, living what appears

to be a blissful domestic life near the beach in Rio de Janeiro.

But this is 1970s Brazil, under a military dictatorship.

And their world is about to be upended by the arrest and disappearance of husband and father Rubens, a former congressman.

There are more in case?

No, my children,

they're not only my children,

they're on the same.

No, no, no, no necessity of arm.

Fernanda Torres plays Eunice,

his wife and mother of their five children.

I think the essence of this film is endurance.

They tried to erase this family, to say that they never existed.

And this woman with five children, she endured in time.

So I like to think that literature and cinema

were about not only to preserve memory,

but to make this family forever remembered.

And this is quite a thing for art.

The film directed by Brazilian Walter Salas

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