El Father Plays Himself

A young film director returns to Venezuela inspired to make a film based on his fathers 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 Fathers 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