I am Frankelda

Name: I am Frankelda
Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Comedy, Family, Animation
Released: 2025-06-06
Duration: 113 min
Rating: 4
Cast: Mireya Mendoza, Luis Leonardo Suarez, Habana Zoé, Assira Abbate, Arturo Ambriz

What you imagine has long been imagining you.

Rating

4.0 (1)

Release Date

6/6/2025

Runtime

113 mins

Genres

Horror Fantasy Comedy Family Animation

Overview

Frankelda, a frustrated young Mexican writer from the 19th Century, travels in the form of a ghost to a kingdom of her own invention inhabited by Spooks, which are all the monstrous characters she created in her horror tales. Her guide is Herneval, the Prince of Spooks, who takes her to help him save the balance between the Realm of Fiction and the Realm of Existence by using her talent as a writer.

Status

Released

Original Language

Spanish

Budget

Revenue

Homepage

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How It Feels

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A darkly whimsical journey through a writer's Gothic imagination made manifest, blending melancholic invention with playful monster-world shenanigans and genuinely unsettling supernatural moments.

Mood

WhimsicalMelancholicUnsettlingContemplativePlayful

Themes

Art and creationIdentityIsolationGrief

Look

Stop-motion3D animationPainterlyHigh-contrast

Heads up

Graphic violenceBody horror

Mireya Mendoza

Frankelda (voice)

Arturo Mercado Jr.

Herneval (voice)

Luis Leonardo Suarez

Procustes (voice)

Gaby Cárdenas

Veritena (voice)

Carlos Segundo

Ceimuth (voice)

Beto Castillo

Ficturo (voice)

Habana Zoé

(voice)

Juan Pablo Monterrubio

(voice)

Gaby Cárdenas

(voice)

Magda Giner

(voice)

Anahí Allue

(voice)

Sergio Carranza

(voice)

Reviews

nicolascagegoons

Aug 27, 2026

Definitely one of the most interesting animated release of the year.
Fiction and reality are realms bound to eachother but the limitation that we hold with stories is something very real. In both film making, writing, song and most artforms. And while limitations are a way for creativity, there are people that use those limitation to squeeze every bit of joy and uniqueness out of you until you give up. I think i am frankelda is a touching story about that, while its characters can sometimes just feel like they only inhabit that, the performances and animation makes them feel alive in a mix with the writing of its themes.
I relate to this story, especially now since i attend a film school and it becomes very weird the longer im there. There isn't anything wrong with it per say but it more so holds those same limitations in style, uniqueness and rules that allow creativity to be crushed.
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