In the Name of the Daughter

7.9
  • Genre: Drama
  • Run time: 108 min
  • Premiere: 2011. September 9.

En el Nombre de la Hija tells the story of a nine-year old girl whose name is in dispute. Manuela has been named alter her socialist-atheist father, but her catholic-conservative grandmother insists she should carry the name the first daughters of the family have carried for generations: Dolores. The story takes place in a Valley in the Ecuadorian Andes, during the summer of 1976. Manuela and her little brother, Camilo, are spending vacations with their cousins and grandparents at the family's farmhouse. Eager to defend her father's ideas, Manuela confronts her cousins and grandparents, but an unexpected encounter leads her to confront herself instead. Hidden in the family's abandoned library, schizophrenic uncle Felipe is devoted to setting words free from the constraints of dogmas. His wisdom sets Manuela free from her own dogmas and forever changes her relationship with words, including her own name.

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Art

Juan Carlos Acevedo

Art Direction

Camera

Armando Salazar

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

María Caridad Carrión

Costume Design

Crew

Javier Gangotena

Additional Music

Felipe Gangotena

Additional Music

Directing

Tania Hermida

Director

Production

Anaís Domínguez

Co-Producer

Paula Parrini

Production Manager

Tania Hermida

Executive Producer

Sound

Esteban Brauer

Sound Effects Editor

Christian Moya

Assistant Sound Editor

Writing