Fernando Reinaldos does it again in Italy!

Thrilled to announce that GALLINA, by Fernando Reinaldos, has been selected to be part of the XIII Annual USN – Sardinia Queer Film Expo, Festival Cinematografico e Concorso Internazionale di Cortometraggi a tema Lgbtqia+, to be held from 9 to 13 November in Cagliari.

GALLINA had its world premiere at the New Hampshire Film Festival in the US. It is one of the many Oscar-qualifying festivals in which the film has competed during this long and successful year.

GALLINA has also won awards at countless international film festivals around the world.

One of their most recent successes has been at the HollyShorts Film Festival, one of the best short film festivals in North America.

GALLINA is in the running for the Best Fiction Short Film Award at the prestigious Forqué Awards.

Fernando Reinaldos about GALLINA:

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.