THE GIANT
Johannes Nyholm

O.V. Swedish

A young man of small stature who suffers from autism thinks big thanks to his fertile imagination. After the success of his hilarious short Las Palmas, which featured puppets interacting with a baby, Swedish filmmaker Nyholm is back with a new and equally offbeat work. A dramedy with a distinctly surrealist bent, The Giant turns on the trials and tribulations of a young, severely deformed autistic man who finds salvation in the game of pétanque. Drawing comparisons to David...