El Father Plays Himself 2020
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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.
- Released: 2020-04-25
- Runtime: 105 minutes
- Genre: Documentary
- Stars: Jorge Thielen Armand, Jorge Thielen Hedderich
- Director: Manon Ardisson, Mo Scarpelli, Juan Soto Taborda, Roberta Ainstein, Mo Scarpelli
