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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.

7.0(2)20201h 45m1

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
Budget
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Box office
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Language
Spanish
  • venezuela
  • filmmaking
  • making of
  • latin america

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Director

Mo Scarpelli

Produced in

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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