‘Decorado,’ From Alberto Vázquez, One of Spain’s Greatest Animation Directors, Broken Down by Producer Iván Miñambres

Animated feature ‘Decorado’ joins six other 2026 Goya top winners and contenders showcased this week in New York at the showcase And the Goya Goes To – New Spanish Films

By Kevin Giraud

Kevin Giraud

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Did you ever feel like you were living outside your own existence, playing a role in a distant reality? Building on this feeling of estrangement and adapting his own Goya-Awarded animated short, writer-director and animation veteran Alberto Vázquez crafted “Decorado”. 

An elaborate, eerie adult feature, in “Decorado,” Arnold, a mouse in midlife crisis, sees his world as an artificial theater set (“decorado” in Spanish). As personal troubles mount, his suspicions of living in a fake reality lead him to search for meaning, as he unveils more and more the blank truth of his universe: his world is a wonderful stage, with a deplorable cast.

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