Animation at Lund Fantastic
From existential mice and skeleton pizza delivery to demonic skin, doomed romance and creatures in the snow, animation appears in many different corners of this year’s programme.
Two animated features come to Lund Fantastic in 2026, while nine animated shorts are nominated across four of the festival’s competitions. Together they make a good starting point for anyone who wants to explore animation at the festival — although they have very little else in common.
Decorado
Spain / Portugal · dir. Alberto Vázquez
1 November · 20:00 · Kino 1
Méliès d’Argent Competition
Arnold is a middle-aged mouse having an existential crisis. Increasingly convinced that the world around him is fake, he begins to see manipulation everywhere — in his neighbours, his doctors, his friends and the all-powerful corporation ALMA.
Decorado combines surreal animation, black comedy and existential horror in a story about depression, conformity and the suspicion that somebody else may be writing the rules of your life.
A decade after Birdboy: The Forgotten Children screened at Lund Fantastic, Alberto Vázquez returns with another work of adult animation — this time competing for the Méliès d’Argent.
Big City Pizza
USA · dir. Dusty Saunders
2 November · 22:30 · Kino 2
Boney is a skeleton. Boney delivers pizza. Unfortunately, it is a complicated night to be delivering pizza.
As the city prepares for the Omniball Championship, Boney moves from one increasingly peculiar customer to another, encountering the inhabitants and hazards of a very unusual city.
Created in Blender, Big City Pizza is animated as one continuous, unbroken take and seen entirely through Boney’s eyes. The result combines first-person perspective, visual comedy and an impressive amount of animated world-building.
Read more about Big City Pizza →
Award-Nominated Animation
Animation also turns up throughout this year’s competitions, with nine shorts nominated across the Méliès d’Argent, International Competition, Future of Fantastic and Finn Fantastic.
Il Mostro Delle Nevi
Italy · dir. Mirko Fois
Méliès d’Argent
In a frozen post-apocalyptic landscape, a survivor intercepts a radio signal from another human being and sets out to find its source.
Read more about Il Mostro Delle Nevi →
My Game
Spain · dir. David Navarro Bravo
Méliès d’Argent
A bored VHS-store clerk turns his monotonous routine into a dangerous game of chance, with every new customer becoming part of the gamble.
Dinner
South Korea · dir. Haeji Jeong
International Competition
The process of love is included in the course meal.
That is all we are going to tell you.
Eclosion
Dominican Republic · dir. Luis Morillo
International Competition
In a forgotten laboratory, an obsessive inventor brings a mysterious creature called the Hatchling to life. What begins as a miraculous creation becomes an experiment in the pursuit of perfection.
Versipellis
France · dir. Angèle Kadjané, Camille Gaeremynck, Kim Guenego, Charline Perrin & Raph Tibi
Future of Fantastic
At nightfall, a young nun transforms into a wolf. Unfortunately, an inquisitor is already hunting her.
Skin Flick
France · dir. Louise Bailly, Daniela Del Castello, Alice Levy, Bruno de Mendonça, Elifsu Meriç & Joey Quoc Tran
Future of Fantastic
An X-actress stars in the Devil’s cannibalistic snuff films in exchange for a beautiful new skin. Things become more complicated when she develops feelings for her intended victim.
Kiss Me Climax
Singapore · dir. Shara Tay
Future of Fantastic
During a video call with her friends, Angel secretly reads an arousing manga — and finds the world around her beginning to respond.
Read more about Kiss Me Climax →
Wormwood and Copper
Sweden · dir. Frans Sjöberg
Finn Fantastic
In the late 1800s, during the absinthe boom, a group of fairies head out to gather their daily food. They soon discover they are not the only hungry creatures around.
Read more about Wormwood and Copper →
Please
Sweden · dir. Anna Mantzaris
Finn Fantastic
A dark comedy about the very human desire to love and be loved, centred on neediness, intimacy and romance.
From a 95-minute existential mouse crisis to a few concentrated minutes of wolves, romance, laboratories and cannibalistic cinema, animation at Lund Fantastic is not confined to one genre, country or part of the programme.
Consider this your way in.
