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Say My Name
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Say My Name

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People from different ethnic backgrounds with "difficult" names by Western standards share their experience with moving through the world with an identity that challenges others to simply just say their name. A short social docu-film by Mariam Meliksetyan, “Say My Name” is a meditation on identity, otherness, assimilation, community, and ancestral roots.

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Directors
Mariam Melik
Production companies
Blue Iris Films
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United States of America
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Carene Rose MekertichyanSelf

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