27° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL

GIGANTE

GIGANTE
by Adrián Biniez
Country: Uruguay, Argentina, Germany, Netherlands
Year: 2009
Duration: 90'


GIGANTE
Jara is a shy and lonely security guard at a supermarket on the outskirts of Montevideo. He is in charge of monitoring the surveillance cameras of the entire building. He spends most of the time watching videos, filling out crossword puzzles and listening to music. Everything seems to be going as usual until Jara becomes gradually attracted to Julia, a cleaning woman who works at the supermarket. At first, Jara spends hours watching her through the cameras, but soon he starts following her after work when she goes to the cinema or even on a date with another man.


“I always thought of Gigante as a subversion of the classic patterns of romantic comedy. This film is not about the beginning of a relationship, but about what precedes it. It is about the process that any human being in love has to face before taking action, at a stage where he has to deal with his feelings and his deepest fears. A stage where what he knows about her is little more than an image: a big question mark he wishes to decipher.”

Biography

film director

Adrián Biniez

Adrián Biniez (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1974) recorded two albums in the Nineties with the indie pop band Reverb. In 2003, he played a small role in the film Whisky, directed by Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll. Later he worked as a scriptwriter for the TV series El Fin del Mundo. In April 2005, he participated in the Talent Campus at the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires and that same year he took part in the III Curso de proyectos cinematograficos latinoamericanos in Madrid. In 2005, he also shot the short film 8 Horas and won first prize at the Festival de cine independiente of Buenos Aires 2006 (BAFICI) as well as first prize at the Festival cinematográfico internacional de Uruguay 2006. His second short film Total Disponibilidad screened in competition at BAFICI in 2008. Gigante is his first feature film and won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival 2009.

FILMOGRAFIA

8 Horas (cm, 2006), Total disponibilidad (cm, 2008), Gigante (2009).

Cast

& Credits

regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura/director, story, screenplay
Adrián Biniez
fotografia/cinematography
Arauco Hernández
montaggio/film editing
Fernando Epstein
scenografia/production design
Alejandro Castiglioni
suono/sound
Daniel Yafalián
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Horacio Camandule (Jara), Leonor Svarcas (Julia), Fernando Alonso (Julio), Diego Artucio (Omar), Ariel Caldarelli (Jaras Chef), Fabiana Charlo (Mariela), Andrés Gallo (Fidel), Federico García (Matías), Néstor Guzzini (Tomás), Esteban Lago (Gustavo), Ernesto Liotti (Danilo), Carlos Lissardy (Kennedy), Nacho Mendy (Miguel)
produttori/producers
Fernando Epstein, Agustina Chiarino
produzione/production
Control Z Films
coproduzione/coproduction
Pandora Filmproduktion, Rizoma Films, ZDF/Arte, IDTV Films
coproduttori/coproducers
Christoph Friedel, Hernán Mussaluppi, Frans Van Gestel, Jeroen Beker
vendita all’estero/world sales
The Match Factory
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