Name: El Father Plays Himself
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2021-08-06
Duration: 1 h 45 min
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Jorge Thielen Hedderich, Jorge Thielen Armand, John Bedoya

Spanish-language cinema across Spain and Latin America is united by its engagement with history, cultural identity, and social transformation. In Spain, films often balance artistic experimentation with popular genres while reflecting on memory, politics, and family. In Latin America, cinema has been deeply tied to questions of colonial legacy, resistance, and community resilience, ranging from intimate dramas to bold political allegories.

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A father and son return to the Amazon jungle to shoot a deeply personal film. Fiction and reality clash as father plays himself.

Jorge Thielen Hedderich in El Father Plays Himself (2020)

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