Giant (2009 film)

Giant (Spanish: Gigante) is a 2009 comedy film, written and directed by Adrían Biniez, an Argentinian film director living in Uruguay.

Synopsis

Jara (Horacio Camandule) is a security guard at a supermarket who falls in love with Julia (Leonor Svarcas), a cleaning worker on the night shift. Jara is about 30 years old, solitary, quiet and big. That is why before approaching Julia, he watches her via the television cameras monitoring the supermarket, and then pursues her across the city of Montevideo, where the film is set.^[2]

Cast

• Horacio Camandule as Jara
• Leonor Svarcas as Julia
• Diego Artucio as Omar
• Ariel Caldarelli as Jara's boss
• Fabiana Charlo as Mariela
• Andrés Gallo as Fidel
• Federico García as Matías
• Néstor Guzzini as Tomás
• Esteban Lago as Gustavo
• Ernesto Liotti as Danilo
• Carlos Lissardy as Kennedy

Awards and nominations

Film Awards

Submissions

• Berlin Film Festival
  • Golden Bear (nominated)
• Goya Awards
  • Best Spanish Language Foreign Film (nominated)

See also

• List of films featuring surveillance

References