Jara is a shy and lonely 35-year-old security guard at a supermarket on the outskirts of Montevideo. He works the night shift, monitoring the surveillance cameras of the entire building. One night Jara discovers Julia, a 25-year-old cleaning woman, through one of the cameras and is immediately attracted to her. Night after night, he watches her on the cameras while she works. Soon he starts following her after work: to the cinema, the beach and even to a date with another man. Jara's life becomes a series of routines and rituals around Julia, but eventually he finds himself at a crossroad and must decide whether to give up his obsession or confront it.

Writer-director Adrián Biniez says, “What interests me most about Gigante is that it walks the boundary between falling in love and obsession. It shows how someone in love can turn into an obsessive and absent-minded human being…I always thought of Gigante as a subversion of a the classic patterns of romantic comedy. Unlike the latter, it shows the process of just one of these people, of how he discovers the other one, how he is captured and blinded by the other’s image, how he becomes aware of his condition, and how he finally dares to get into real contact with the other and not only with her image.”
Winner, Best First Feature and Grand Jury Prize, Berlin Film Festival.