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El Father Plays Himself

Synopsis

An exiled Venezuelan director returns to his collapsing country to make a fiction film based on his own self-destructive father, who he casts to play himself. Father and son venture to the Amazon jungle, revisiting past traumas in a country that offers them no future. EL FATHER PLAYS HIMSELF explores the ways a son who left and a father who stayed face the pains of their past and the uncertainty of their future, all through the catharsis of making a film.

Details

Year
2020
Type of project
Features
Running time
106 min
Director
Mo Scarpelli
Producer
Manon Ardisson
Editor
Juan Soto

Genre

Woman Director

Categories

Documentary

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

An Ardimages UK, La Faena Films, Rake Films, Channel 6 Media production

Ardimages UK

Manon Ardisson

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