Over the past decade and a half, Alberto Vázquez has been blending animation with fantasy and horror, developing a cinematic body of work that stands out for its distinctive visual, thematic, and narrative style. His work is characterized mainly by a raw and disconcerting, sometimes disturbing, subversion of the popular universe of children's stories. With narratives populated by teddy bears and anthropomorphic unicorns, Vázquez uses corrosive humor to craft existential fables about human nature and its relationship with the natural world.

With a multidisciplinary creative profile, primarily spanning animated cinema, illustration, and comics, Alberto Vázquez is also an acclaimed artist, distinguished with four Goya Awards, several Platino Awards, and more than a hundred accolades at prestigious festivals such as Annecy, Chicago, among others. His creations have also been selected for Cannes, the EFA Awards, Toronto, Clermont-Ferrand, and Animafest.

The program dedicated to him in this edition seeks to present his consistent creative universe, where he originally works with very particular themes, narratives, and characters. The unusual and successful blending of animated cinema with the codes of the fantastic and horror genres has earned him widespread recognition from specialized critics. The program also includes a carte blanche with the director's choices and a rare opportunity for the Portuguese public to chat with the director, allowing him to revisit the most important moments of his career and his creative process.