2024-02-16 01:32:12
“Thank you very much Paulina and Augusto for so many lessons in love,” Maite Alberdi said excitedly after receiving the award.
Infinite Memory, documentary starring Paulina Urrutia and Augusto Góngorawon in the category of Best Ibero-American Film at the 2024 Goya Awards.
Its director, Maite Alberdi, was in charge of giving a few words at the ceremony upon receiving the statuette.
“Thanks a lot. Chile these days has gone through several days of national mourning and Infinite Memory has taught me different ways of experiencing personal and collective grief,” the filmmaker began by saying.
“This year I got to see Paulina presenting the film in the midst of her loss, talking about their pain with the public and assuming a shared grief,” he added.
In that sense, she continued excitedly, “I think he faced Alzheimer’s in the same way; without hiding, talking about the topic, making it visible and assuming that I had to be in the world”he continued.
“Her husband Augusto, for his part, said that The way to reconstitute collective memory was not from figures or information, but from emotional memory. And even when he lost his memory, he always remembered his pain and his loves,” she said emotionally.
“Historical memory is built by narrating and sharing pain. Thank you very much Paulina and Augusto for so many love lessons”, he mentioned.
Finally, she thanked her parents “who put this gala on television for me since I was a child, today is a very important day for me. Thank you so much”.