In the Name of the Girl

It is the summer of 1976 in a valley of the Andes Mountains in Ecuador. Manuela has been educated according to the communist and atheistic ideals of her beloved father. She believes her parents are on a revolutionary mission in Colombia while she and her five-year-old brother Camilo spend the summer at their grandparents' farmhouse. Karl Marx's famous quotation "Religion is the opiate of the masses" is one of the 'odd' ideas nine-year-old Manuela confronts her ultra-catholic family with while she tries to teach her little cousins the basic principles of communism. (Zlín Film Festival)