Award!!

Thrilled to announce that the short film GALLINA, by Fernando Reinaldos, won Best International Short Film at Espacio Queer Film Festival, Argentina.

Espacio Queer is established as a cultural space guided by the queer theory. It’s a place for debate, reflection and artistic expresion to developes open activities about sexual diversity and gender.

Located in La Plata city, this festival includes proyections of feature-films and short-films, official competition and showcase sections, debates, workshops, visual arts exhibitions and live music.

The screenings were enthusiastically received by the large audience in attendance.

GALLINA is one of the most successful Spanish short films on the international film festival circuit.

It had its world premiere at the New Hampshire Film Festival in the US, a qualifying event for the Hollywood Oscars, and has since been selected for screening at nearly fifty of the world’s most prestigious film festivals.

GALLINA has also been screened at festivals that qualify for the Goya Awards, organised each year by the Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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, because in a few days we’ll be announcing further milestones for this outstanding success in Spanish cinema, starring Joaquín López Fernández, Candela Moreno and Rosario Pardo.