Produced by Sergio Adrià's Espurna Films, with Sandra Hermida on board as co-producer, the film centers on 17-year-old Clara, whose desire to be seen and loved is complicated by a growing impulse to escape the expectations surrounding her. 'The Zone of Interest' Producer Ewa Puszczyńska and Director Jan Holoubek Say 'Wild, Wild East' No Longer Feels Like a Period Drama: 'It Can Happen Again. It Already Is' Taiwan Strengthens Global Co-Production Presence at Toronto Film Festival With 'Happily Ever After,' 'The Age of Goodbyes' and 'Arrested Memory'. "But at the same time she has an internal and contradictory impulse that wants to push her to break free from these attachments and become more independent, mature, and free."Inspired by the life of a close friend, the project grew from the filmmaker's interest in the conflicting feelings that can coexist in a daughter's relationship with her father. For Obradors, that relationship also provides an early encounter with the rules and expectations of a wider masculine world. "Somewhere between these two polarities is a world that inspired me to make this film - an attitude, an action, where preservation and destruction coexist." Clara grows up within a family structure shaped by power, submission and male pleasure, with few alternative points of reference. Questioning what she has learned about femininity and intimacy means confronting the guilt attached to that questioning. Her father Ricard's profession brings another layer to those dynamics. As both a parent and a painter, he has the power to shape a person's understanding of the world and the images through which that world is represented. "For a long time, we've seen the artist as a kind of genius and almost a divine figure," Obradors said.
In "The Woodworm" ("El Corquim"), the feature debut of Laura Obradors, a teenage girl's search for an identity of her own runs up against the authority of her father, a successful artist in creative crisis.
