El Father Plays Himself

The name of this movie is El Father Plays Himself released in 2020-04-25 and it's main theme is 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..