El Father Plays Himself (2020)
El Father como sí mismo
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.
Where to watch El Father Plays Himself
| Country | Stream | Rent | Buy |
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| United States | GuideDoc, DocAlliance Films | DocAlliance Films | — |
| United Kingdom | GuideDoc, True Story, DocAlliance Films | — | — |
| Canada | GuideDoc, DocAlliance Films | DocAlliance Films | — |
| Australia | True Story | — | — |
| Ireland | GuideDoc, True Story, DocAlliance Films | DocAlliance Films | — |
| New Zealand | True Story | — | — |
| India | True Story, DocAlliance Films | DocAlliance Films | — |
| Germany | GuideDoc, True Story, DocAlliance Films | DocAlliance Films | — |
| France | True Story, DocAlliance Films | DocAlliance Films | — |
| Spain | GuideDoc, True Story, DocAlliance Films | DocAlliance Films | — |
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What is El Father Plays Himself about?
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. El Father Plays Himself is a Documentary movie, released on 2020-04-25, runtime 105 minutes.
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In the United States, El Father Plays Himself streams on GuideDoc and DocAlliance Films and can be rented from DocAlliance Films. The table on this page lists 9 more countries. Movie World also lists the official trailer, online streaming sources and links to external sources on this page.
Directed by
Mo Scarpelli
Cast
- Jorge Thielen Armand as Self
- Jorge Thielen Hedderich as Self
- Rodrigo Michelangeli as Self
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