El Father Plays Himself

El Father Plays Himself (2020)

El Father como sí mismo

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.

Date of release
2020-04-25
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (2)
Runtime
1h 45m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Mo Scarpelli

Casting

Interesting facts

El Father Plays Himself is a 2020 documentary film filmed and directed by Mo Scarpelli. It premiered at the 51st Visions du Réel. It is a co-production between Venezuela, United Kingdom, Italy and the United States, the film premiered at the 51st Visions du Réel. It follows the filming of La Fortaleza, a feature about a son who goes back to his native country to tell the story of his father, who at the same time plays the main character in the film.

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