In the Name of the Daughter
2011, Spanish. Directed by Tania Hermida.
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 48m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- Spanish
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- Released
- 9 September 2011
- Original title
- En el nombre de la hija
- Country
- Colombia, Ecuador, Netherlands, Switzerland
- Written by
- Tania Hermida
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In the Name of the Daughter runs 108 minutes (1h 48m).
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In the Name of the Daughter isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 9 September 2011. (Checked 14 November 2026.)
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Who directed In the Name of the Daughter?
In the Name of the Daughter (2011) was directed by Tania Hermida and stars Eva Mayu Mecham Benavides, Markus Mecham Benavides, Martina León.