Coloniser's daughter?", asks Iniko, "Farmworker. It is not the same." 1 , replies Clarence in her father's defence. The exchange takes place between the Equatorial Guinean and Spanish co-protagonists in Palmeras en la nieve/ Palm Trees in the Snow (Fernando González Molina, 2015), the box-office hit based on the novel of the same name. As the dialogue encapsulates, Spain's revision of its African colonial past is yet to acknowledge the abuses and inequalities of the period, grounding itself instead in notions of collaboration, exchange, and conviviality. Whereas Spanish colonialism in the Americas has been approached onscreen with revisionist tones, Spanish incursions in Africa have been given much less attention and even less critical awareness. Nevertheless, it is worth noting a recent increase of Spanish films around themes of (post)colonialism in the African colonies; in post-Franco's Spain this debate was conspicuously absent.Twenty-first century Spain is interrogating the past and collective memory. At the turn of the millennium and the foundation of the ARMH (Spain's Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory) in 2000, numerous literary works, testimonies, and films were produced around the themes of the Civil War and its aftermath (Labanyi, 2007, p. 95). The debates that 2007's Ley de Memoria Histórica (Law of Historical Memory) reignited have encouraged the examination not only of the war and the dictatorship that followed, but also, as Triana-Toribio (2016, p.16) identifies, of the transition, its political agents, and the decisions taken.The reinstatement of a collective memory around Spain's colonial incursions in Africa must 1 (INIKO) Hija de colonial? (CLARENCE) Empleado de finca. No es lo mismo.