The festival will also screen the U.S. premiere of Mononoke the Movie: The Phantom in the Rain (Gekijōban Mononoke: Karakasa), the first anime film in the new Mononoke film project, as well as the California premiere of the Ghost Cat Anzu French-Japanese animated film.
The festival will also screen the North American premiere of the Miyazaki, Spirit of Nature documentary about the ecological connections throughout Hayao Miyazaki’s career.
The film was originally slated to open in fall 2023, but it was then slated to open in 2024.
GKIDS announced on Thursday that the North American premiere of The Colors Within (Kimi no Iro), a new anime feature film by Science SARU and director Naoko Yamada, will screen on the opening night of the Animation is Film festival in Los Angeles on October 18.