El Father Plays Himself (2020)

Starring: Jorge Thielen Armand, Jorge Thielen Hedderich

Director: Mo Scarpelli

Genre: Documentary

IMDb: https://imdb.com/title/tt11937670/

Release/Country: 2020/Venezuela, United Kingdom, Italy, United States

IMDb 5.5/ 10 (50 votes)

El Father Plays Himself (2020) Description: 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.