Remember My Name

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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.

“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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Molina, Elena (film director)
Molina, Elena (screenwriter)
Manzano Vall, Bernat (film producer)

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Cinematography, Juan Meseguer; editing, Begoña Ruiz, Elena Molina; music, Sara Fontán, Edu Pou.

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