Movies like I Am Frankelda

“I Am Frankelda (2025) is a 19th-century Mexican-period animated gothic-fantasy that frames a young writer's inward quest as the film's central engine. It stages a subconscious confrontation between author and invented figures with painterly chiaroscuro, layered mise-en-scène and episodic fairy-tale setpieces. I Am Frankelda argues that imaginative labor reshapes memory and moral responsibility, repositioning Latin American fantastical lineage within a family-facing gothic idiom.”