Perpetual Person (Spanish: Persona perpetua) is a 2020 Peruvian documentary film written, produced, filmed, edited and directed by Javier Bellido Valdivia.
[1][2] It follows the life and routine of the director's maternal grandmother who suffers from Alzheimer's disease.
[3] An intimate approach to the experience of Alzheimer's disease in a 95-year-old woman and her relationship with her immediate surroundings.
The tension between lucidity and dementia will shape a new notion of personhood, able to live and perceive the world in another way.
[4] It had its world premiere on December 7, 2020, at the 18th Doclisboa International Film Festival,[5] then was screened in early January 2021 at the 8th Transcinema International Festival,[6] on October 11, 2021, at the 8th Trujillo Film Festival,[7] on December 10, 2021, at the 6th Ethnographic Film Festival of Ecuador,[8] and that same month at the 15th Cinema Vérité.