El Father Plays Himself
2020, Spanish. Directed by Mo Scarpelli.
A father and son return to the Amazon jungle to shoot a deeply personal film. Fiction and reality clash as father plays himself.
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
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Spanish
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El Father Plays Himself is streaming on True Story and DocAlliance Films in India.
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- Released
- 25 April 2020
- Original title
- El Father como sí mismo
- Country
- Italy, United Kingdom, United States of America, Venezuela
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El Father Plays Himself runs 105 minutes (1h 45m).
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El Father Plays Himself is streaming on True Story and DocAlliance Films in India. (Checked 11 November 2026.)
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Who directed El Father Plays Himself?
El Father Plays Himself (2020) was directed by Mo Scarpelli and stars Jorge Thielen Armand, Jorge Thielen Hedderich, Rodrigo Michelangeli.