Remember My Name
(Remember My Name)
Elena Molina | Documentary
2023 | 76 minutes | Spain, France, Qatar
After a dangerous trek alone, a group of minors form a new family in a dance troupe. But when they turn 18, they have to leave the children’s center.
Synopsis
Remember My Name, directed by Elena Molina, follows Ihsane, Assia, Mounia, Nuhaila, and Hamza—young migrants who arrived alone in Melilla, Spain. After crossing the border from Morocco, Ihsane finds refuge in the “Divina Infantita” nuns’ reception center for girls, while Hamza, now turning 18, must leave La Purísima, the center for unaccompanied boys.
Amid displacement and uncertainty, they find a new belonging in the NANA dance company, a group that becomes their chosen family. When the company is selected to perform on a national TV talent show, the spotlight offers a fleeting dream, an escape from their daily reality on the margins. Yet, when the lights fade, they must return to Melilla and face adulthood, once again, on their own.
A moving and poetic documentary, "Remember My Name" captures resilience, friendship, and the power of art to reclaim identity and hope.
Reviews
“Through the possibilities provided by a documentary, from an intimate point of view, with a human approach to the characters and their life stories, Elena Molina manages to give them a presence … to show who they are, that each of them has a name, that they are someone beyond the commonplace in which they are classified.” — Júlia Olmo, Cineuropa
“Remember My Name is not a film about unaccompanied minors (the so-called ‘menas’), but about the people behind this collective.” — Cineuropa
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Pragda subjects
Afro-Latin Studies
Dance + Performing Arts
Human Rights
Iberian Studies
International Relations
Migration Studies
Youth
Keywords
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Festivals
Málaga Film Festival - Audience Award; L'Alternativa Barcelona Independent Film Festival; Festival dei Popoli International Documentary Film Festival
DIRECTOR: Elena Molina
NATIONALITY: Spain, France, Qatar
YEAR: 2023
GENRE: Documentary
LANGUAGE: Spanish; Arabic; Other languages
COLOR / B&W: Color
GRADE LEVEL: Middle School, High School, College, Adult
SUBTITLE/CC: AVAILABLE
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