
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.
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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- Language
- Spanish
- venezuela
- filmmaking
- making of
- latin america
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Italy, United Kingdom, United States of America, Venezuela
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Release dates
CanadaCA
- Digital / OTTCinefest Sudbury22 Sept 2021
VenezuelaVE
- Theatrical25 Apr 2020
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El Father Plays Himself was released on 25 April 2020.
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