Mizuki Kiyama’s “Bath House of Whales” (“Kujira no Yu”) animated short won the Lotte Reiniger Promotion Award for Animated Film at the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film in Germany on May 10.
Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo also won the festival’s AniMovie award for best animated feature film award in 2010, and Makoto Shinkai’s The Garden of Words film won the award in 2014.
The festival’s website posted videos of the jury announcing the award, and Kiyama accepting the award virtually.
The short is streaming on Knowledge Capital’s YouTube channel.