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Memories of a Penitent Heart

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About the Film

Blending newly discovered home movies, letters, and archival footage with intimate contemporary interviews, MEMORIES OF A PENITENT HEART follows filmmaker Cecilia Aldarondo as she confronts a long-buried family secret surrounding her uncle Miguel’s death at the height of the AIDS crisis, when the disease was widely condemned as sin. A decade later, determined to understand the silence and shame that shaped her family’s response, she searches for Miguel’s estranged partner, Robert. She finds him, but he is now Father Aquin, a Franciscan monk carrying years of grief and anger. As past and present collide, the film becomes a powerful reckoning with the human cost of stigma, the weaponization of faith, and the unresolved wounds left by AIDS.

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