30/5 — 5/6/2024
64th International Film Festival
for Children and Youth

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Section: International Competition of Animated Films for Children

Giant (2017) 6

Germany | 2017 | 15 min.

The heroine of the story is a girl called Ola, who becomes friends with a giant washing himself in the bay. This unusual pair sets out on a journey to the edge of town to the green meadow.

CountryGermany
Year2017
Duration15 min
Rating6
LanguageNo dialogues
SubtitleNo subtitles
Directed by Johanna Bentz
Screenplay Johanna Bentz
Director of Photography Jana Pape
Music Marian Mentrup
Edited by Diana Zolotarova
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Biography

Johanna was born in Munich, Germany in 1982. Her 68'spirit parents took her and her sister backpacking since their childhood. These journeys to Asia, Africa, America and Europe shaped her interest for different realities, parallel worlds and storytelling. After finishing school in 2003 several years of traveling and working through Europe, Asia and South America followed. In 2006 she started studying directing for documentary film at Filmakademie Baden- Württemberg. Soon her films were shown in national and international festivals and in German TV.This film is a part of the set Short Animations 3.