MY FATHER'S PRISON

LA PRISIÓN DE MI PADRE

By Iván Andrés SIMONOVIS PERTÍÑEZ

FILM HARBOUR - as SALES

First film - Completed 2023

Iván Simonovis becomes the first and most famous political prisoner in Venezuela. His son Iván Andrés crafts a very personal and moving story, showing history from an angle never seen before.

Festivals
& Awards

Visions du Réel 2023
Dokufest Prizren 2023
DocsMx 2023
FICX - Gijón IFF 2023
Audience Award - Tierres en Trance Competition
Budapest IDF 2024
DocPoint Helsinki 2024
    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • First film, Documentary
    • Countries
    • VENEZUELA
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Duration
    • 81 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Iván Andrés SIMONOVIS PERTÍÑEZ
    • Synopsis
    • When Iván Simonovis becomes the first and most famous political prisoner in Venezuela, a 15-year period of imprisonment leaves devastating effects on his and his family’s lives. Living in exile as a filmmaker, his son Iván Andrés crafts a very personal and moving story, using over 25 years of unique family material, showing history from an angle never seen before.

      A family that had to overcome extreme hardship, a father that has to find his place in life again and a son that faces his traumas by inviting the viewer into the core of a wound that touched both his family and his entire country.