Release Date

25 Apr, 2020

Runtime

01:45: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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.

Original Title

El Father como sí mismo

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Actors

Jorge Thielen Armand

Jorge Thielen Hedderich

Rodrigo Michelangeli

Crew

Rodrigo Michelangeli

Mo Scarpelli

Manon Ardisson

Juan Soto Taborda

Roberta Ainstein

Mo Scarpelli

Joel Sahuleka

Lucas Meyer