Thrilled to announce that GALLINA, by Fernando Reinaldos, won two awards at Centre Film Festival, Pennylvania.

• Best Director Award: Fernando Reinaldos
• Best Actor Award: Joaquín López Fernández

GALLINA premiered worldwide a few weeks ago at the New Hampshire Film Festival in the United States. This film event is a qualifier for the Hollywood Oscars.

A few days ago, he also received the Best Actor award, once again for the wonderful Joaquín López Fernández, at the prestigious Sulmona International Film Festival in Italy.

GALLINA is Fernando Reinaldos’ first short film distributed by Mailuki Films.

Synopsis:

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 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.

Stay tuned. Soon, very soon, more great news.

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