El Father Plays Himself

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.

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

105 min

Cast:

Jorge Thielen Armand, Jorge Thielen Hedderich, Rodrigo Michelangeli

Quality:

HD

Director:

Mo Scarpelli

Release:

2020

Country:

Italy, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela

Rating:

7.0