The brain film festival, which will celebrate the seventh edition from March 13 to 17 at the Centre for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB), will recognise the career of the Chilean director and producer at its opening ceremony Maite Alberdi with the Brain Film Fest 2024 Special Award.
The international competition, promoted by the Pasqual Maragall Foundation and co-organized by Minimal Films, will also schedule a retrospective of his work, which will include The infinite memory, the opening film of this edition, The Eleven, The Mole Agent and the short film I'm not from here. In his filmography, Alberdi has explored old age and themes related to the brain with a lucid and empathetic perspective, constructing his own story in relation to aging, the mechanisms of memory and the resilience of emotions.
This honorary award, created in 2022, is given annually to a person related to the world of culture, whose work has exerted a significant influence on the collective imagination on issues of the brain. In 2023, it recognized the filmmaker Isabel Coixet and in 2022, the actress Carme Elias.
Infinite Memory, the opening film of the Brain Film Fest 2024
The documentary filmmaker tells the story of a couple who have been together for twenty-five years, Augusto Góngora and Paulina Urrutia, and who have lived with Augusto's Alzheimer's for eight years. Augusto is one of Chile's most prominent cultural commentators and television presenters.
Spanning decades of intimacy, The infinite memory elegantly consolidates Alberdi's place as one of the most thoughtful documentary filmmakers of today. The film won the Grand Jury Prize at the last Sundance Film Festival, and was screened at the Berlinale and in the Perlak section of the San Sebastian Film Festival. It is nominated in the category of Best Ibero-American Film at the 2024 Goya Awards, and is the film nominated to represent Chile in the category of Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars.
