Giant

Special Jury Prize

Trapped in an active war-zone, two parents struggle to distract their young daughter by inventing a fantastical tale. Inspired by real events, this immersive virtual-reality experience transports the viewer into the family’s makeshift basement shelter. The parents’ fairytale intensifies as bomb-blasts draw closer and closer. . .

“You’re in a basement, presumably in the United States, along with a mother, a father, and a six-year-old girl. The parents tell the girl that the booming sounds she hears are a friendly giant’s footsteps—‘He just wants to play’—but the truth is more dire.”

—Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker