Director Walter Salles on 'I'm Still Here' and cinema as an antidote to AI and social media

Brazilian director Walter Salles discusses his latest film I'm Still Here, why he's moved by Morocco and why cinema is one the best antidotes to AI.

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00:00It's a very personal story, it's a story of a family, I'm very close to them, I'm

00:30very close to, that I befriended when I was 13 years old in Brazil during the military

00:36dictatorship. And in the house of that family, you had the reverse angle of that dictatorship,

00:43there was music playing all the time, political discussions were free, there was light in

00:48the house, even the relationship between the people, everything on a tactile standpoint

01:00was different as well, different from what existed in my house. And we were all enamored

01:05by what happened there. And then suddenly, destiny did strike in that specific house

01:13and the mother of that family, she had five kids, and she had to find a form of resistance,

01:21or forms of resistance, that could allow her to go through and the whole family to go through

01:28those dark ages. So it's a story of reinvention, it's very life-affirming, it's about loss,

01:36it's about joy first, it's about loss, and it's about reinvention. And at the end of

01:44the day, it's about hope as well, because you have to believe that there's a way out

01:50of this mess we're in.