Fernando Reinaldos’ short film GALLINA received a magnificent reception at the 19th edition of QFest St Louis.
The screening took place at the beautiful, renovated Hi-Pointe Theatre, which was packed with an audience eager to ask questions after the screening.
GALLINA has just triumphed at the prestigious Huesca International Film Festival, a qualifying event for the Hollywood Oscars and the Goya Awards, where it was delighted to receive an award.
GALLINA had its world premiere at the New Hampshire Film Festival, the umpteenth Oscar-qualifying festival in which it has competed, and has since been selected for almost 50 international film festivals.
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 successes for this extraordinary Spanish film.
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