El Father Plays Himself (2021)

  • NR
  • 09/22/2021 (CA)
  • Documentary
  • 1h 45m

A father and son return to the Amazon jungle to shoot a deeply personal film. Fiction and reality clash as father plays himself.

Overview

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.

Mo Scarpelli

Director

Cast

Jorge Thielen Armand's headshot

Jorge Thielen Armand

Self
Jorge Thielen Hedderich's headshot

Jorge Thielen Hedderich

Self
Rodrigo Michelangeli's headshot

Rodrigo Michelangeli

Self

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