- Country: Italy, UK, USA, Venezuela
- Genres: Documentary
- Release: 2021-08-06
- Director: Mo Scarpelli
- Writers: N/A
- Language: Spanish
- Stars: Jorge Thielen Hedderich , Jorge Thielen Armand
- Runtime: 105 min
- Awards: 6 wins & 12 nominations
- AKA: El Father Plays Himself (United Kingdom) , El Father Plays Himself , Mój ojciec w roli ojca (Poland) , El Father Plays Himself (Canada) , El Father Plays Himself (Venezuela)
- Plot:
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.
- IMDB:tt11937670