El Father Plays Himself (2020)

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.

Released April 25, 2020 105 min None+

Genres: Documentary

Keywords: tmdb.venezuela, tmdb.filmmaking, tmdb.making-of, tmdb.latin-america, mdblist.has-trailer, mdblist.fresh, imdb.jungle + 6 more, imdb.male-nudity, imdb.parenting, imdb.father-son, imdb.father, imdb.son, mdblist.three-actors