Jorge Thielen Armand

Jorge Thielen Armand

Caracas, Venezuela

Jorge Thielen Armand is a director, screenwriter and film producer. Together with Rodrigo Michelangeli, he founded the Venezuelan-Canadian production company La Faena Films.

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Fortitude 2020 (7.3)

To escape the crisis in Venezuela, and his alcoholism, Roque retreats into the Amazon jungle to renovate a cabin he built during happier times. He struggles with feverish visions caused by alcohol abstinence, and his desire for redemption becomes distorted when he joins old friends to work in an illegal gold mine controlled by Colombian guerrillas. The violence required to work in the mine plunges Roque into a cycle of self-destruction that devours his interior. He will need the fortitude to get out and start anew.
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La Soledad 2017 (6.1)

Jose lives with his family in La Soledad, a dilapidated villa located in what used to be one of Caracas' most affluent neighborhoods. After learning that the owners are planning to sell the property, Jose seeks any solution that might keep his young daughter from growing up in the city's crime-sodden slums.
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Flor de la Mar 2015 (7)

In a remote Venezuelan island, a community of fishermen fights to protect the ruins of the first European city built in the Americas.