During a post-screening Q&A, "I'm Still Here" director Walter Salles and star Fernanda Torres talk about the relevance of ...

Brazil has never won Best International Feature at the Oscars but Walter Salles, the director of this year's entry, I'm Still Here, has been close before, most notably withThe Motorcycle Diaries.

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Walter Salles is a filmmaker who doesn't come around that often — literally. Part of the euphoric response to his comeback with I'm Still Here goes beyond its shattering poignancy or timely ...

Salles took home Andrei Tarkovsky's "Andrei Rublev," Jim Jarmusch's "Stranger than Paradise,"and many more. “I think it was so refreshing to…starting to do films and see that narratives could ...

For his Treat, Salles opens up about how Michelangelo Antonioni's 1975 drama The Passenger made a lasting impression on him when he first saw it as a teenager. The film follows BBC journalist David ...

Actress Fernanda Torres knew her friend, the director Walter Salles, intended to make a film based on a real-life Rio de Janeiro woman who fought for justice for her family after Brazil’s ...

In crafting the story of “I’m Still Here,” which chronicles the forced disappearance of a husband and father during the military dictatorship in Brazil, filmmaker Walter Salles didn’t have ...