Decorado

Spain | 2025 | 95 min. | Alberto Vázquez

May 27, 2026

7:15pm | SIFF Film Center

Presented by Grand Illusion Cinema
. Adapted from the acclaimed 2016 short film by director Alberto Vázquez (Birdboy: The Forgotten Children, Unicorn Wars), Decorado blends biting humor with haunting beauty in a darkly comedic odyssey through our era of social control, manufactured realities, and the quest for authentic human connection.  

 

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Something is wrong in the city of Anywhere. Arnold, an unemployed middle-aged mouse, confides to his wife Maria that he suspects his entire world is nothing more than a set, and his life a scripted performance. When his best friend Ramiro dies under mysterious circumstances, he traces the conspiracy to a monolithic corporation whose influence reaches every corner of their daily lives.

“This paranoid and dystopian vision of life under capitalism is grim but funny—surreally cartoonish yet filled with sarcastic adult ennui, like Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat In Space punctuated by a dose of "Happy Tree Friends’" goofy gore, eventually approaching something fearful and self-referential enough to evoke the existential absurdity of Charlie Kaufman.” — Jacob Oller, AV Club

  • Director: Alberto Vázquez
  • Principal Cast: Asier Hormaza, Aintzane Gamiz, Kandido Uranga, Mikel Garmendia, José Felipe Auzmendi
  • Country: Spain
  • Year: 2025
  • Running Time: 95 min.
  • Language: Spanish with English Subtitles
  • Has Subtitles: Yes