In Santiago’s oldest skate park, the kids come and go but the dogs stay the same. According to its directors, Iván Osnovikoff and Bettina Perut, “Los Reyes” got its start as a look at the inner lives of the youths that congregate around this aging sprawl of half-pipes, pools and ramps. But the filmmakers eventually realized that two stray dogs who lived in the park, Football and Chola, were their real stars.

The resulting film, which was shot over two years but breezes through its 78-minute running time, juxtaposes snatches of the kids’ conversations with a visual focus on the dogs themselves. The canines don’t do much — this isn’t an attempt to anthropomorphize them — but they are mesmerizing to look at, as they lie about and chew on soccer balls, bottles, branches and, at one point, a brick. They also love to play a game where they balance a tennis ball on the edge of a ramp and then let it roll down. Exciting!