Canada!!

Thrilled to announce that the short film GALLINA, by Fernando Reinaldos, is an Official Selection at Muskoka Queer Film Festival. A exciting joint project of Muskoka Pride, Theatre Muskoka, and Sanctuary Studios Inc.

Located in the heart of Ontario’s cottage country, MQFF attracts audiences from Toronto to North Bay, from Haliburton to London, and far beyond.

The screenings will take place at the impressive Rene M. Caisse Memorial Theatre during the spring.

GALLINA premiered worldwide at the New Hampshire Film Festival, a qualifying event for the Hollywood Oscars.
It has since competed in the official selection of numerous prestigious festivals around the world. It has won awards in Italy, Spain, the United States…

GALLINA is the new work by renowned Spanish filmmaker Fernando Reinaldos.

GALLINA is in the running for the next Goya Awards, organised each year by the Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Fernando Reinados’ 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.