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As I have done in the past, I am sharing some of my personal picks of films to see at this year’s TIFF. This first installment highlights two Canadian documentaries and three fiction films from various parts of the world. I highly recommend all of them.
What happens to the collective memory of an oppressed country if the ones who report on the oppression fail to remember? This is the question Oscar-nominated Chilean director Maite Alberdi ’s The Eternal Memory asks of its main subjects: renowned journalist Augusto Góngora , who is in late-stage dementia; and Paulina Urrutia , a culture minister and Góngora’s life partner of 25 years.