Story of My Name | movie | 2019 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

After a fire destructed my house, I return to the places where I grew up looking for childhood recollections. In this jo | dG1feXdJN3ZLS2pUazQ

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00:00I started checking out other people's files that other people had lent me.

00:05And a memory insisted on coming back.

00:09When I was eight years old, we went for a walk.

00:14My parents started talking to an older man.

00:19I remember that my parents and that man were excited.

00:26He asked me to take a picture because he was going to take that picture to his daughter.

00:33I'm not sure if this is a memory or a story learned from memory.

00:39The only thing I'm sure of is that that day I knew that that man's daughter's name was Karineitel.

00:47And that my parents gave me my name because of her.

00:57I found out later that Karin had been a member of the Patriotic Front Manuel Rodríguez.

01:02That they carried out actions against the dictatorship.

01:08When I was a girl, I always asked my parents about Karin.

01:12But I had never asked them what their reasons were for giving me this name.

01:21I remember that when I was a little girl, I always asked my parents about Karin.

01:26But I had never asked them what their reasons were for giving me this name.

01:37One day when I went to visit my mom, I asked her.

01:43She started crying.

01:48There was a black hole.

01:52Something in our story was like a blank page.

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