The Eternal Memory
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”.
Tiit Tuumalu
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)