30/5 — 5/6/2024
64th International Film Festival
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Section: Panorama

Giants Don´t Exist (2017) 15

Spain, Guatemala | 2017 | 82 min.

Guatemala, in the 1980s. The worst days of the Civil war. Andrés is 9 years old. He lives with Pedro González, one of the men who massacred all the women and children in his village. Andrés has survived, but he’s scared. Pedro’s wife, María, is also scared: scared to go out, scared to lose Andrés, whom she considers as “her new son”. Even Pedro is scared: scared of himself and what the Army orders him to do. Andrés would like to run away, but he also wants to stay in his new family – until his sister appears.

CountrySpain, Guatemala
Year2017
Duration82 min
Rating15
LanguageSpanish
SubtitleEnglish, Czech
Directed by Chema Rodríguez
Screenplay Chema Rodríguez, Francisco Vargas, Elías León Siminiani
Director of Photography Álvaro Rodríguez Sánchez
Edited by José Manuel García Moyano
Contact Pyramide Films

Biography

A Spanish screenwriter, director and producer. He made the award-winning feature documentaries The Railroad All-Stars (Estrellas de la Línea, 2006) and Coyote (2009), and TV documentary series. In feature film he debuted with the feature-length drama Nightfall in India (2014).

Relationships, Drama, Exotic, Politics, Childhood, True Story, War, Violence, Indigenious, Discrimination