EL RETRATO DE MI PADRE

PORTRAIT OF MY FATHER

By Juan Ignacio FERNÁNDEZ HOPPE

PÁJARO DORADO - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2022

Thirty years after my father’s apparent suicide, I embark on an obsessive quest for the truth, regardless of oblivion, shame, and my mother’s misgivings.

Festivals
& Awards

IDFA 2022
International Competition
BAFICI (Buenos Aires) 2023
Docs MX 2023
Malaga 2023
Documentary Official Competition
Atlanti Doc 2023
Uruguayan Official Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • URUGUAY
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Budget
    • 0 - 0.3 M$
    • Duration
    • 99 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Juan Ignacio FERNÁNDEZ HOPPE
    • Writer(s)
    • Juan Ignacio FERNÁNDEZ HOPPE, Guillermo MADEIRO
    • Producer(s)
    • Carolina CAMPO LUPO (PÁJARO DORADO), Juan Ignacio FERNÁNDEZ HOPPE (Hoppe Films)
    • Synopsis
    • My father was found dead at the beach with psychotropic medication among his things. Despite suicide being a possibility, my mother -a psychiatrist- deemed performing an autopsy unnecessary. I was eight years old.
      Thirty years later, equipped with a box filled with his belongings, I begin piecing his life together. I discovered a musician who played strange piano string music and a music therapist of disabled teenagers, but nothing is certain in my quest, which is always shrouded in the fog of mental illness, overmedication, and my mother’s questioning every one of my findings.
      The ultimate cause of death will be revealed to me at the end, but the real portrait of my father will emerge when all else has seemingly failed. All along, I just had to listen to my own voice.