The critically-acclaimed documentary feature “The Eternal Memory” is returning to theaters, PvNew has learned exclusively.
The doc, which hails from MTV documentary Films, will be back on theater screens in New York and Los Angeles starting today. The film will screen daily at The IFC Center in New York on Jan. 5-7 and 12-15. It will screen at the Laemmle Glendale and Monica Film Center in Los Angeles on Jan. 6- 8 and 13- 15.
The film originally premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize World Cinema – documentary. It went on to win several more accolades on the festival circuit and was named to the to the shortlist in the Best documentary Feature Film category for the 96th Academy Awards.
“The Eternal Memory” previously ran in theaters nationwide and debuted on Paramount+ in the U.S. in November.
The film tells the story of Augusto Góngora and Paulina Urrutia, a Chilean couple whose lives are irrevocably impacted by Augusto’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis.
The official description reads: “‘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 face this challenge head-on, relying on the tender affection and sense of humor shared between them that remains, remarkably, fully intact.”
Maite Alberdi directed and produced the film as a followup to his other hit doc, “The Mole Agent.” Juan De Dios Larraín, Pablo Larraín and Rocío Jadue also produce. It is executive produced by Nina L. Diaz, Liza Burnett Fefferman and Sheila Nevins on behalf of MTV. It is a Micromundo and Fabula production.
