As part of its Long Play programme, The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) presents the Melbourne season of The Giants, from 1 to 14 November, 2012.

Winner of the Art Cinema prize at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival-Directors' Fortnight, The Giants sits thematically with favourites Catcher in the Rye, Stand by Me and The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Writer Director Bouli Lanners tells the story of two teenage boys abandoned at their grandfather's house by their mother for the summer. Becoming a trio with a local boy, the three navigate adult dilemmas through the lens and viewpoint endemic to teenage perspective; they mix bravado, naivety and need together to traverse the summer.