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The Eternal Memory

Director

Maite Alberdi

Executive Producers

Marcela Santinañez, Daniela Sandoval, Nicholas Hooper H., Julie Goldman, Christopher Clements, Chandra Jessee, Rebecca Lichtenfeld

Producers

Maite Alberdi, Juan De Dios Larraín, Pablo Larraín, Rocío Jadue

Editor

Carolina Siraqyan

Cinematographer

Pablo Valdés

The Eternal Memory tells a profound and moving love story that balances vibrant individual and collective remembrance with the longevity of an unbreakable human bond. Augusto and Paulina have been together and in love for 25 years. Eight years ago, their lives were forever changed by Augusto’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis. As one of Chile’s most prominent cultural commentators and television presenters, Augusto is no stranger to building an archive of memory. Now he turns that work to his own life, trying to hold on to his identity with the help of his beloved Paulina, whose own pre-eminence as a famous actress and Chilean Minister of Culture predates her ceaselessly inventive manner of engaging with her husband. Day by day, the couple faces this challenge head-on, relying on the tender affection and sense of humor shared between them that remains, remarkably, fully intact.

 

Courtesy of MTV Documentary Films

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Maite Alberdi

Director, A Child of My Own

Maite Alberdi is an Academy Award–nominated Chilean filmmaker and the first Chilean documentary director ever nominated for an Oscar®. She made her feature debut with THE LIFEGUARD (2011), followed by TEA TIME (2015), which won more than a dozen international awards and was nominated for a Goya Award for Best Ibero-American Film.

In 2016, she released the short film I AM NOT FROM HERE, nominated for a European Film Award, along with her feature THE GROWN-UPS, which received 10 international awards. Her breakthrough film THE MOLE AGENT premiered at Sundance in 2020 and went on to earn Academy Award, Goya, Ariel, and Platino nominations for Best Documentary.

Her 2023 documentary THE ETERNAL MEMORY was nominated for an Academy Award®, won the Goya Award for Best Ibero-American Film, and received the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. Her 2024 feature IN HER PLACE was nominated for a Goya Award.