Manchester Animation Festival

While you’ve likely seen hundreds of series and movies about guinea pigs before, this is special — we promise. Join us for an unmissable English language screening of the feature length version of Adult Swim’s first Spanish language original series, Women Wearing Shoulder Pads, that the LA Times called the “most unexpected yet perfect show”.

Created by Gonzalo Cordova (Tuca & Bertie, Adam Ruins Everything) and produced in partnership with Mexico City-based studio Cinema Fantasma (Frankelda’s Book of Spooks), this stop-motion comedy features an all-woman cast. Women Wearing Shoulder Pads follows Marioneta, a proud, wealthy Spaniard living in 1980s Quito, Ecuador. There she encounters a diverse group of eccentric and ambitious women navigating the complicated worlds of love, family, and cuyes (guinea pigs). And remember: guinea pigs are family, not food.