El Father Plays Himself

Apr 25, 2020

1h 45m

★ 7.0

A father and son return to the Amazon jungle to shoot a deeply personal film. Fiction and reality clash as father plays himself.

Overview

A young film director returns to Venezuela, inspired to make a film based on his father's life in the Amazon jungle (La Fortaleza, Jorge Thielen Armand). He casts Father to play himself. What starts as an act of love and ambition — filmmaking to more deeply understand the self, and the other — spirals into a process which confronts Father’s struggles with addiction and his life devoid of his son. EL FATHER PLAYS HIMSELF holds a steady lens to the way the act of cinema unearths, binds, heals and destroys.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Rake Films

Ardimages

La Faena

El Father Plays Himself Trailers

Cast

Self

Jorge Thielen Armand

Self

Jorge Thielen Hedderich

Self

Rodrigo Michelangeli

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