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THE ETERNAL MEMORY
THE ETERNAL MEMORY

• Director: Maite Alberdi
• CHILE / 2023 / DCP / Colour / 84’ / Spanish; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Maite Alberdi
• Director of Photography: Pablo Valdés
• Editing: Carolina Siraqyan
• Music: Miguel Miranda, José Miguel Tobar
• Cast: Paulina Urrutia, Augusto Góngora
• Producer: Pablo Larraín, Juan de Dios Larraín, Rocío Jadue
• Production Co.: Fabula, Micromundo
• World Sales: Dogwoof

2023 Sundance Grand Jury Prize World Cinema Documentary

The Oscar-nominated director of The Mole Agent returns with another touching documentary that premiered at Sundance and later screened at Berlin Film Festival. The Eternal Memory follows Augusto and Paulina who have been together and in love for 25 years. Eight years ago, Augusto was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, and his wife has since become his caretaker. As one of Chile’s most prominent cultural commentators and television presenters, Augusto is no stranger to building an archive of memory following the Pinochet dictatorship and its systematic erasure of collective consciousness. Now he turns that work to his own life, trying to hold on to his identity. Using a collage-like montage that makes the film seem like a tender and humorous journey through the stages of an eventful life, director Maite Alberdi traces the story of a man who has spent his whole life writing in a bid to prevent collective forgetting, but who is now himself gradually losing his memory.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.