Orgullo rural
2021 · 15m · España
Directed by Gele Fernández Montaño, Manuel Jiménez Núñez
Genres: documentary, LGBTQ+
Tones: contemplative, tender
The people who star in this documentary have a strong link with the populations where they have decided to live freely their sexual orientation or their gender identity; their visibility makes them close referents for LGTB+ children and young people, as well as for the rest of their neighbours in the Huelva municipalities where they reside.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Everyone's waiting for the queer doc that swings a sledgehammer; this one just... lets people exist in their own towns, which is somehow more radical than the expected catharsis beat. It refuses the redemption arc you're bracing for.
A deceptively simple observational structure that understands documentary's oldest tradition—witness and proximity—deployed here with rare restraint to argue that visibility itself, unglamorous and everyday, is the document worth keeping.
The decision to shoot these subjects in their actual communities rather than isolation—letting neighbors, daily life, and mundane moments become the co-stars—transforms what could've been a talking-heads issue film into something that trusts presence over narrative.