Chile's capital is the setting, and 2019 is the year: this eighty-three-minute documentary from 2022 was built around the demonstrations that filled the streets of Santiago. Patricio Guzman directed it, and the catalogue credits Chile and France as the production countries.
What is My Imaginary Country about?
The film records a stretch of time in which large numbers of people gathered in the squares and avenues of Santiago to press for changes to the way the country was run. What the camera collects are demands concerning schooling and access to education, the health system, employment opportunities, and more broadly the question of how democratic institutions were functioning. There is no scripted plot and no single character followed throughout; the material is organised around footage gathered on location — crowds, streets, voices recorded as events unfolded. The catalogue records a single genre for the title, documentary, and attaches no fictional cast to it. Guzman's name appears both in the directing credit and among those listed in front of the camera.
About the cast
No fictional cast is credited. The one name the catalogue holds on the on-screen side is Patricio Guzman, who also carries the directing credit — a listing consistent with a work made as non-fiction. The other people who appear are participants and passers-by recorded where the events took place, not performers working from a screenplay.
Context & significance
The events shown belong to 2019, while the catalogue year for the finished work is 2022, so several years sit between the footage and the release. The joint Chilean and French credit is a common arrangement for feature-length documentary work, where financing and post-production stages are often spread across more than one country. The subject matter — public demonstrations, and the political and constitutional questions raised around them — is presented on this page as historical record and nothing more. The runtime is eighty-three minutes, compact for a documentary feature, and the approach is observational rather than narrative.
Watching My Imaginary Country on Ktime
My Imaginary Country streams on K-Time once you are signed in to a K-Time account; reading this page needs no login, watching does. Both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles exist for this title, so it can be followed in whichever form you prefer. The K-Time interface is built in Farsi for viewers across the Iranian diaspora, and the title sits in the documentary section.