El Father Plays Himself
movie

A father and son return to the Amazon jungle to shoot a deeply personal film. Fiction and reality clash as father plays himself.
Released April 25, 2020
Genres:
Overview
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.
Runtime
1h 45m
Origin Country
United States
Original Language
Spanish
Original Title
El Father como sí mismo
Status
Released
Production Countries
- Italy
- United Kingdom
- United States of America
- Venezuela
Spoken Languages
- Español (Spanish)
Production Companies
- no logo available
Rake Films
United States

Ardimages
United States
- no logo available
La Faena
United States





