The official website for the 74th Cannes Film Festival announced on July 4 that the world premiere of Mamoru Hosoda’s new anime feature film Ryu to Sobakasu no Hime / BELLE will be held at 20:00 on July 15, one day before its theatrical release day in Japan.
BELLE is the only Japanese film in the 13 films selected in the category.
It is also confirmed that the film has been selected for the festival’s newly established Premiere Section, to which more than 2,000 films from all over the world were submitted this year.