Decorado is a 2025 black comedy-drama film directed by Alberto Vázquez from a screenplay he co-wrote with F. Xavier Manuel Ruiz. Based on the animated short film of the same name by the director himself, the film is a joint Spanish-Portuguese co-production.
Mouse Arnold, a resident of the city of Anywhere, is in a downward spiral, prompting him to wonder if everything around him is fake, as if it was a scenery.
At the 2023 Valencia-based Weird Market, Alberto Vázquez pitched Decorado, then reportedly in pre-production, as "an existentialist fable about the meaning of life and the crises we go through". He mentioned The Truman Show, the classical Mickey Mouse cartoons and Ingmar Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage as references. The film is a Spanish-Portuguese co-production by Abano Producións along with , Glow Animation, Sardinha Em Lata, and MarÃÂa y Arnold AIE.
worked as art director and Pamela Poltronieri as animation director.
Decorado had its world premiere at the 20th Fantastic Fest on 21 September 2025. It screened at the 58th Sitges Film Festival in October 2025 for its Spanish premiere. Its festival run also included selections for screenings in the competitive slate of the Ottawa International Animation Film Festival, the 'Cult' strand of the 2025 BFI London Film Festival, and in the competitive lineup of the 8th (for its West Coast premiere). It was released theatrically in Spain on 24 October 2025 by Barton Films.
GKIDS picked up North American distribution rights to the film, scheduling a theatrical release with both English-language subtitles and dubbing for 15 May 2026.