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El Father Plays Himself

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.

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Documentary

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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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Status

Released

Original Language

Spanish

Runtime

105 mins

Rating

7/10

Release Date

25 April 2020

Country

Italy

Cast

Jorge Thielen Armand

Jorge Thielen Armand

Self

Jorge Thielen Hedderich

Jorge Thielen Hedderich

Self

Rodrigo Michelangeli

Rodrigo Michelangeli

Self

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