Decorado

Spain, Portugal, 2025, 93′

In Spanish with English and Slovenian subtitles

Following Psychonauts and Unicorn Wars, Alberto Vázquez returns with another surreal animated feature replete with black humour. Similar to Mickey Mouse characters but living in much more violent worlds, Vázquez’s heroes find themselves in a kind of Truman Show reality. To be happy, Arnold the mouse takes pills made by ALMA, a mega-corporation controlling everything and everyone. But slowly, he begins to wonder, first paranoidly, then genuinely, whether everything around him might be just a facade.

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The screening of the film Decorado at the Animateka festival was supported by the Spanish Embassy in Ljubljana.

 

A Magnificent Life

France, Belgium, Luxembourg, 2025, 90′

In French with Slovenian and English subtitles

In 1955, a French women’s magazine asked Marcel Pagnol, the famous French writer, playwright, and director, to write a weekly column about his childhood and youth. Pagnol frustratingly already finds it difficult to recall some of his earlier memories, until his curious inner child comes to life in front of him. Together, they set off to explore Pagnol’s life story, inextricably intertwined with the written word and film images and anecdotes that such an art-abundant life is always full of.

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Dandelion’s Odyssey

France, Belgium, 2025, 76′

No dialogue

Somewhere between computer animation, macro photography, and time-lapse footage, a gentle narrative unfolds about a world after the end of the world. Four dandelion seeds, catapulted from planet Earth after a nuclear apocalypse, search for a new home in the stratosphere. When the migrant seeds are sucked into a black hole, they find themselves on a planet both ominous and unusually beautiful. The seeds travel on slugs, flee from voracious floating tadpoles, and search for land where they can take root.

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Director Momoko Seto will also be visiting us at the festival!

 

Death Does Not Exist

Canada, France, 2025, 72′

In French with Slovenian and English subtitles

The action of a small group of militant activists goes awry. Hélène, tasked with providing cover from the bushes while the others attack the rich men in a villa, loses consciousness. She finds herself on a metaphysical journey in a netherworld, where a spirit guide confronts her with questions of personal responsibility, the use of violence, and the eternal dilemma in the struggle for a better world: what will change our increasingly oppressive system—big revolutionary swings or small, persistent steps?

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The Great History of Western Philosophy

Mexico, 2025, 73′

In Mandarin, English, and Spanish with Slovenian and English subtitles

A chaotic tale woven together by a cosmic animator tasked with making an “educational philosophical film” after committing an unknown crime, The Great History of Western Philosophy features Chairman Mao, Socrates, Mickey Mouse, Monkey King, Kant, to name just a few. Before our eyes unfolds an eclectic animated adventure through and around Western and Eastern philosophy, mythology, art history, pop culture and stream-of-consciousness dream states – do not try and make sense of it, just enjoy the wild ride!

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