Animation is Film Festival Will Open with New Ghibli Film The Boy and the Heron

Hayao Miyazaki’s newest film The Boy and the Heron will open the 6th Animation is Film Festival.A myriad of other large studio projects will also be shown alongside Studio Ghibli’s The Boy and the Heron according to The Hollywood Reporter. This includes Aardman’s highly anticipated Netflix Chicken Run sequel Dawn of the Nugget and Disney’s 100th Anniversary celebration short Once Upon a Studio. Additionally, Dreamworks Animations newest Trolls: Band Together and Sony Pictures Animation/Sony Pictures Imageworks will premiere the newest Spider-Verse short in North America, The Spider Within: a Spider-Verse Story.With the film’s plot initially kept under wraps, The Boy and the Heron’s teaser was screened earlier this September, giving audiences a brief look at the plot. As the teaser states, “A young boy named Mahito yearning for his mother ventures into a world shared by the living and the dead.” The film is implied to be a semi-autobiographical account from Miyazaki himself, “about life, death, and creation in tribute to friendship.” The official trailer, which was later dropped by GKIDS, finally lets fans see a bit of the iconic Ghibli style in store.RELATED: Studio Ghibli to Become an Official Subsidiary of Nippon Television

Hayao Miyazaki’s newest film The Boy and the Heron will open the 6th Animation is Film Festival.

RELATED: Studio Ghibli to Become an Official Subsidiary of Nippon Television

A myriad of other large studio projects will also be shown alongside Studio Ghibli‘s The Boy and the Heron according to The Hollywood Reporter. This includes Aardman’s highly anticipated Netflix Chicken Run sequel Dawn of the Nugget and Disney’s 100th Anniversary celebration short Once Upon a Studio. Additionally, Dreamworks Animations newest Trolls: Band Together and Sony Pictures Animation/Sony Pictures Imageworks will premiere the newest Spider-Verse short in North America, The Spider Within: a Spider-Verse Story.

With the film’s plot initially kept under wraps, The Boy and the Heron‘s teaser was screened earlier this September, giving audiences a brief look at the plot. As the teaser states, “A young boy named Mahito yearning for his mother ventures into a world shared by the living and the dead.” The film is implied to be a semi-autobiographical account from Miyazaki himself, “about life, death, and creation in tribute to friendship.” The official trailer, which was later dropped by GKIDS, finally lets fans see a bit of the iconic Ghibli style in store.

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