The festival will screen the English dubs for both films, including the world premiere of the English dub of Pompo: The Cinéphile.
GKIDS will begin screening Pompo: The Cinéphile in Japanese with English subtitles and an English dub in North America in 2022.
The staff of the New York International Children’s Film Festival (NYICFF) announced on Tuesday that it will screen the anime film of Shogo Sugitani’s Pompo: The Cinéphile (Eiga Daisuki Pompo-san) manga and Studio 4°C’s anime film of Akihiro Nishino’s Poupelle of Chimney Town (Entotsu-chō no Poupelle) picture book during the festival.
The film opened in Japan in December 2020 and ranked at #4 and earned 322,998,700 (about US$3.13 million) in its opening weekend.