El Father Plays Himself (2020)

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

Directed by Mo Scarpelli1h 45mDocumentary

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.

Year
2020
Country
IT
Language
Spanish
Release date
25 April 2020
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Jorge Thielen Armand
Jorge Thielen Armand
Self
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Jorge Thielen Hedderich
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Rodrigo Michelangeli
Rodrigo Michelangeli
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