Distribution company MTV Documentary Films has recently released the trailer for the upcoming documentary The Eternal Memory, which follows a couple dealing with one of them getting diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Eternal Memory has received acclaim at both the Berlin Film Festival as an audience award runner-up and this year’s Sundance grand jury prize for world documentaries.
Filmmaker Maite Alberdi, well-known for her Academy Award-nominated feature The Mole Agent, follows prominent Chilean cultural commentator Augusto Góngora as he and his wife, Chilean Minister of Culture Paulina Urrutia, navigate their lives as the former is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and tries to hold onto his identity. The film follows his developing memory archive as he seeks to hold onto these important moments like how he worked to force Chile to never forget Pinochet’s horror under the latter’s regime. Unlike most other deep dives into Alzheimer’s, Alberdi focuses more on “the slippery, transient concept of memory itself, as formed, held and lost both in the individual mind and a wider collective consciousness.”
The documentary is set to release in New York on August 11th, which will be followed by a series of engagements in Los Angeles and San Francisco and a limited national release.
Below is the trailer for the upcoming documentary.
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