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Gigante
Gigante
“Nothing escapes the camera.” Adrián Biniez (director)
Jara is a quiet giant, a shy security guard who works late shifts at a Montevideo supermarket. He loves heavy-metal music, reads, does the crossword and mostly keeps to himself. His long night shifts become more bearable when he spots Julia, a young woman who mops the floors, over the surveillance cameras. Too shy to start a conversation, he starts trailing her and occasionally stepping in to intervene. When an irritating boss threatens Julia, he has him conveniently paged over the loudspeaker; when she goes to an Internet cafe, he sits in a corner and spies on her. Eventually, though, changes at the workplace require him to confront his secret obsession. From the production team behind the award-winning Whisky and winner of three awards at the Berlin Film Festival, Gigante is a film of few words and striking power; Jara’s pierc- ing blue eyes speak volumes for all that he cannot bring himself to utter. Debut director Adrián Biniez’s feat is to build this character study with great patience, teasing our sympathies and maintaining the air of mystery surrounding Jara till the very end. Gigante is a beautifully shot, witty and original tale of boy- meets-girl which lingers.
2009 Berlin Film Festival:Best Debut Film, Jury Grand Prix - Silver Bear, Alfred Bauer Award
Gramado Film Festival: 'Best Screenplay, Critics’ Award
Chicago Film Festival:Best New Director
Lima Latin American Film Festival:Special Jury Prize
Toronto Film Festival
London Film Festival
Karlovy Vary Film Festival
Vancouver Film Festival
About the Director
Adrián Biniez
Adrián Biniez was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1974. Around the 1990s, he was a member of a pop band, Reverb, and afterwards played a small role in the film Whisky (2003). Following that he worked as a scriptwriter for a production company, Taxi Films. He was the co-author of the award winning TV series, ‘El Fin del Mundo’. His short film 8 Hours (2005) won the first prize at both Cinematográfico Internacional de Uruguay 2006 and Festival de Cine Independiente de Buenos Aires 2006. His second short film Total Availability (2008) competed at BAFICI. Gigante(2009) is Biniez’s first feature film.
SCREENINGS
| 16.02.2010 15:00 AFM Fitaş Salon 4 |
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| 18.02.2010 19:00 AFM Fitaş Salon 4 |
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OVERVIEW
- Director
- Adrián Biniez ()
- Screenplay
- Adrián Biniez ()
- Cast
- Horacio Camandulle
- Leonor Svarcas
- Néstor Guzzini
- Federico García
- Fabiana Charlo
- Ernesto Liotti
- Music
- Adrián Biniez ()
- Production Co.
- Control Z Films
- Distributor
- The Match Factory GmbH
- Cinematography
- Arauco Hernández Holz
- Editing
- Fernando Epstein
- Producer
- Fernando Epstein
- Agustina Chiarinoa
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