2020
- Documentary
El Father Plays Himself
A father and son return to the amazon jungle to shoot a deeply personal film. fiction and reality clash as father plays himself.
Runtime
1h 45m
Countries
- IT
- Italy
- GB
- United Kingdom
- US
- United States
- VE
- Venezuela
Languages
- es
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.
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StatusReleased
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Release dateApril 25, 2020
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Original LanguageSpanish
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Production Companies
- Ardimages
- La Faena
- Rake Films