Clara’s films of Chile establish the bridgehead of Madrid, “an imaginary kingdom”

Chilean Production Shingle Clara Films has set up operations in Spain and has set up on his first feature film as local producers, “An Imaginary Kingdom” (“Un Reino Imaginado”), the first feature by Chilean residents of Madrid, Belenry Abarza and Eduardo Bunster.

“We are delighted to join” An Imaginary Kingdom “, which seems particularly appropriate as the first production in Spain,” said Clara Larraín, Chief of the Films of Clara, an actress-production who lives in Madrid since 2022. “We believe in her artistic force and the relevance of the themes that this explores, but on the way the directors use tenderness and Easy, she added.

Clara Films is an associate producer of the recent best winner of the Venice script “The Ivy” by Ana Cristina Barragán d’Ambeur. Larraín will attend the Confab Iberseries and Platino de Madrid, which takes place from September 30 to October 3 of this year.

The project also benefits from Bunster’s experience as director of Chilean photography (“Some Beasts”, “The Black One”) and Abarza d’Abarza in the performing arts. Together, they previously co-produced two short films: “Teo” (Bifan, Cinequest, Bogoshorts) and “The Flight of Chaika” (Sanfic).

The story follows Juan Reyes, an undocumented Chilean playwright trying to find his foot in Madrid while he faces the precariousness and the uprooting of life as a migrant. Along the way, he meets Lola, a young woman from Murcia who is also looking for her place in the Spanish capital. In the middle of the unknown streets and uncertain days, the two form a deep friendship that restores their strength to imagine their own future.

“An Imaginary Kingdom” draws personal experiences from its directors and the main actor, Javier Ubilla Martín, while they adapted to life in the Spanish capital. Mix fiction, improvisation and documentary style shooting in the streets of Madrid, the film immerses itself in the quiet intimacy of daily life, revealing how fragility, solitude and humor coexist in those who try to rebuild themselves far from home.

“This film has been conceived as a space where affection and difficulties can coexist. We believe that cinema has the power to give voice to those who know the displacement, revealing humanity in daily life,” said the directors.

The project began with the Holoscópica Chilean company and is now advancing with the addition of Clara Films as a Spanish co -producer. According to Larraín, collaboration supports “the development of a Latin American talent diaspora rooted in the Spanish capital”.

Indeed, Clara Films is one of the many Latin American companies that settle in Spain in order to better exploit generous film incentives in the country and broaden co-production treaties with a crowd of countries.

During the San Sebastian Film Festival, which finished on September 27, the deputy director general of the ACAA, Camilo Vázquez, announced that Spain planned to add to its 22 existing bilateral treaties by signing new pacts with Asia, starting with the Philippines, South Korea, China and India.