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One day, Jara, a lonely and shy supermarket security guard on night duty, spots the new cleaning woman Julia and starts following her. What should he do with his obsession when she is fired? Award-winning feature debut by Adrián Biniez (Uruguay).

Things are going well enough for Jara, a lonely and shy supermarket security guard on night duty. He hasn’t got much to do. One day, he spots the attractive cleaning woman Julia and starts following her via the surveillance cameras and after a while also outside the supermarket, until it becomes a real obsession. One day, he learns the supermarket intends to fire people, including Julia. One of the ten films selected by Guest of the Year Frans van Gestel.

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Control Z Films
IDTV Film
Distributor NL
Filmmuseum Distributie

Title: Gigante
Year: 2009
Duration : 1 hour, 24 minutes
Category: Feature film
Edition: NFF 2011

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