A mother is forced to reinvent herself when her family's life is destroyed by arbitrary violence during the tightening grip of Brazil's military dictatorship in 1971. The Brazilian Film Academy has selected it for the Best International Feature Film competition at the 2025 Oscars... Eunice Paiva: Martha, you have to help me. My husband is in danger! Martha: Everyone is in danger, Eunice.. Appears in Mais Você: Episode dated December 3, 2024 (2024). A Festa do Santo Reis Written by Léo Maia (as Marcio Leonardo) Starring Tim Maia. The film is set in Brazil, but it didn't reach Brazil until much later, and provides a unique look at what life was like during the dictatorship in Brazil in the 1970s. In addition to a window into what Rio was like in the 1970s, the lifestyle, etc. I would like people who voted for the extreme right to see how the dictatorship worked, to feel how it affected people who were minimally politically involved and persecuted. It expertly shows, with subtlety, like many small paper cutouts into the soul, how easy it was for someone to disappear, how fundamental rights were violated. It is a highly topical and very important film that points to a wound in Brazilian society that has never really healed. And yet some people wish those painful times could come back. I hope you watch this masterpiece and start thinking.