see also
original title:
El Father Plays Himself
directed by:
cast:
Jorge Roque Thielen, Jorge Thielen Armand
screenplay:
cinematography:
editing:
Juan Soto Taborda
producer:
Manon Ardisson, Rodrigo Michelangeli
production:
Rake Films, Ardimages UK, La Faena Films
country:
Venezuela/Italy/UK
year:
2020
film run:
105'
format:
colour
status:
Ready (01/03/2020)
festivals & awards:
A young film director returns to Venezuela, inspired to make a film based on his father's life in the Amazon jungle. 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.