The festival will host the North American premieres of the Mirai, I Want to Eat Your Pancreas, and Okko’s Inn anime.
The film already screened in competition at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in June under the title Okko’s Inn.
Okko’s Inn, Modest Heroes, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, and Summer Wars will screen on Saturday, October 20, while I Want to Eat Your Pancreas, penguin highway, Wolf Children, and The Boy and The Beast will screen on Sunday, October 21.
The anime film of Yoru Sumino’s I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (Kimi no Suizō o Tabetai) novel opened in Japan on September 1.