Eternal You | Bangalow Film Festival 2025

Eternal You
Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck 
Germany, USA | 2024 | 87 | Unclassified 15+
NSW Premiere

What if you never had to say goodbye to a loved one? What if death and grief were concerns of the past? Filmmakers Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck pose these questions and more while examining one of the latest major breakthroughs in AI technology -- open language models that enable realistic conversations with virtual reality avatars built using characteristics of the deceased. In essence, bringing the dead to digital life.  
 
Through interviews with end-users, tech experts, journalists, programmers and psychologists, a broad and analytical account unfolds to reveal the far-reaching and often disturbing implications of this new technology.  

One of the most talked about movies at the latest Sundance Film Festival, Eternal You poses  difficult questions while exposing how new technologies are redefining what it means to be human. 

“An eye-opening look at AI resurrecting the dead.” – Playlist 

“A thought-provoking and bang-up-to-the-minute documentary.” - Guardian