Thrilled to announce to announce that Joaquín López Fernández has won the Best Actor Award for his magnificent performance in GALLINA at the 43rd Sulmona International Film Festival in Italy.

Fernando Reinaldos, director of GALLINA, presented the film in the official competition and collected the well-deserved award on behalf of the actor.

We couldn’t be happier with this European premiere. The day before, the theatre Cinema Pacifico was packed to enjoy this new short film by Fernando Reinaldos.

GALLINA premiered worldwide last week in the official section of the New Hampshire Film Festival, USA. A film event that qualifies for the Hollywood Oscars.

In a few days, we will announce the national premiere of this magnificent Spanish production, which promises to be one of the favourites in the upcoming awards season on the international film festival circuit.

Synopsis of GALLINA:

In rural Spain, ten-year-old Pablo loves spending time at his granny’s countryside home, playing with his younger sister Alba and his best friend Martín.

But everything changes when Martín pressures him to betray his family, leaving Pablo to question where he truly belongs.

Director’s Statement:

As a queer child, I remember the constant feeling of being trapped between two worlds: my feminine and masculine sides were always in conflict. Many times I tried to figure out where I belonged, without understanding why I had to make a choice at all. The warmth of my supportive family was not always enough to help me stand up to the harshness of the toxic masculinity outside. At that time, my deep admiration for my best friend led me to make choices against my instincts, betraying the special bond I shared with my dearest ones.

Gallina is my attempt to better understand that time in my life. The day when I came to understand something irreversible about myself and the world around me. When my silence began to shape the person I would become. The same silence that many queer children carry to protect themselves from being seen.

Through Pablo’s story, I wanted to examine how toxic masculinity shapes a boy’s identity in today’s world, and to explore the cost of remaining silent in the face of everyday violence. The silence that takes over at the end of the film is the same silence that, heartbreakingly, has become a defining feature of our time.

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