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Maite Alberdi's moving documentary spotlights Chilean journalist Augusto GÓngora, who helped his country retrieve its identity but lost his to Alzheimer's disease, says Simon Ings

1 November 2023

Handout film still: THE ETERNAL MEMORY Oscar -nominated director Maite Alberdi (The Mole Agent) tells an uplifting yet heartbreaking love story that balances vibrant individual and collective remembrance with the longevity of an unbreakable human bond. — Augusto Góngora and Paulina Urrutia in their home
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The Eternal Memory
Maite Alberdi
10 November UK; Streaming in the US

SOMETIMES, to really understand a process, you have to follow it, without flinching, even if it upsets you, even if it breaks your heart.

Oscar-nominated director Maite Alberdi won a Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury prize this year for The Eternal Memory, a documentary partly made from original footage, home movies, newsreels and videotapes smuggled out of Chile during the darkest years of General Augusto Pinochet’s 17-year dictatorship.

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