The 49th annual Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival in Spain announced on Saturday that Makoto Shinkai’s your name. (Kimi no Na wa.) film won the festival’s Best Animated Feature Film award.
Mitsuha is a female high school student who lives in a rural town nestled deep in the mountains.
Shinkai’s latest film has ranked #1 for seven straight weekends since opening, and it is already 2016’s highest-grossing film in Japan.
Additionally, Tatsumi, Eric Khoo’s animated film adaptation of Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s A Drifting Life autobiographical manga, won the award in 2011.