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

2020

Documentary

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.

Status :

Released

Country : USVE

Original language : es

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| Movie Cast

Jorge Thielen Armand

Jorge Thielen Armand

Self

Rodrigo Michelangeli

Rodrigo Michelangeli

Self

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