The film won the Best Animation Film award at the Shanghai International Film Festival’s Golden Goblet Awards on June 23, and it also won the “Axis: The Satoshi Kon Award for Excellence in Animation” award for Best Animated Feature in Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival on July 25.
The film won the Award for Best Animated Feature Film at the 52nd annual Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival in Spain on October 13.
The film then screened at the 39th annual Hawai’i International Film Festival on November 10, 13, and 24.
Fathom Events confirmed on Friday that it will screen Masaaki Yuasa’s Ride Your Wave film in the United States on February 19 for a one-night-only screening.