The Eternal Memory

Local title
Igavene mälu
Director
Maite Alberdi
Country
Chile
Year
2022
Festival
18th Tartuff
Programme
Documentaries of Tartu Elektriteater
Genre
drama
Subject
elderly people, love, disease

One of the most beautiful love stories of the year.

Chilean journalist Augusto Góngora worked for decades to ensure that Pinochet's crimes were not forgotten. Now, Alzheimer's disease ruthlessly erases his own memory – but the more he forgets, the more his wife Paulina surrounds him with love. Day by day, the lovely couple tries to retain as many of Augusto's memories as possible. “I'm here to help you remember,” Paulina says.

Chilean documentary filmmaker Maite Alberdi, who received an Oscar nomination for her previous film “The Mole Agent,” followed Augusto's ups and downs for over four years resulting in a heartbreaking, delicate, and bright film despite the difficult and painful subject matter. It is also worth noting that this is the winning film of this year's Sundance World Cinema Documentary Competition, right in front of our “Smoke Sauna Sisterhood”.

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Director
Maite Alberdi
Screenwriter
Maite Alberdi
Cast
Augusto Góngora, Trevor Oggs, Paulina Urrutia
Producer
Maite Alberdi, Juan De Dios Larraín, Pablo Larraín, Rocío Jadue
Cinematographer
Pablo Valdés
Editor
Carolina Siraqyan
Music
Miguel Miranda, José Miguel Tobar
Sound
Juan Carlos Maldonado, Roberto Espinoza
Production
Fabula, Micromundo Producciones, Chicken And Egg Pictures, Inmaat Productions, UTA Independent Film Group
Distributor
Edge Entertainment
World sales
Dogwoof
Runtime
Language
Spanish
Subtitles
English
Other festivals
Sundance, Berlin
Director
Maite Alberdi

Maite Alberdi (1983)

Filmography:
El salvavidas (The Lifeguard, 2011, doc), Propaganda (2014, doc, co-dir), La Once (2014, doc), The Grown-Ups (2016, doc), Dios (2019, doc, co-dir), El agente topo (The Mole Agent, 2020, doc), Soy la Tierra. Historias desde el fin del mundo (2022, doc, co-dir), La memoria infinita (Igavene mälu, 2023)

Screenings

Hall Electric Cinema, Tartu
ScreeningIgavene mälu
SubtitlesEnglish
Screening duration
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