It has been announced that the award-winning documentary Don't Forget to Remember, which follows "Irish street artist Asbestos as he and his family learn to navigate his mother's diagnosis of Alzheimer's and cope with her fading memories", will be released in selected cinemas on Friday 6 September.
Directed by Ross Killeen (Love Yourself Today, 99 Problems), Don't Forget to Remember will screen at the IFI in Dublin, the Light House Cinema in Dublin, and Pálás in Galway with more cinemas to be announced.
The documentary's September release coincides with Alzheimer's Awareness month.
"The film is at once a moving portrait of one woman's memory loss but also a celebration of a family coming together in the face of this condition," says the synopsis.
"Throughout this process, Killeen turns the lens on Asbestos, investigating his artistic process and examining the role that art can play as a tool to heal throughout even the most turbulent times of our life."
"I'm delighted that our film now has the chance to be seen by a wider audience across Ireland," said director Killeen.
"Making this documentary was a labour of love. My own mother had dementia and sadly passed away in 2019. I saw how it affected her but also our family and those around her who loved her. I didn't talk about it at the time and kept those feelings inside.
"Both myself and Asbestos are eager to encourage wider conversations about family bonds, memory, and how some connections can never be diminished."
The artist Asbestos said: "Making chalk drawings of my mum's memories, putting them on the street and asking the public to destroy them seems terrifying and extreme. Yet the act of making the drawings, and talking about each of these memories, has cemented them firmer in my mind, more than I could imagine. As much as the drawings can be destroyed, the memories live on."
