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Hosoda's Mirai Film Wins Best Animated Film at Spain's Sitges
posted on by Jennifer Sherman
The 51st annual Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival in Spain announced on Sunday that Penguin Highway were also among the 10 nominees for the award.
In addition, Chū Ishikawa won the Best Original Music award for the Kiru (Killing) film.
Following in in 2006, Mirai is Hosoda's fourth work to win the Best Animated Feature Film award at the festival.
The 100-minute film screened in competition at Annecy in June.
The English and the U.S. in November.
The film's story centers around a family living in a small house in an obscure corner of a certain city — in particular, the family's spoiled four-year-old boy KUN-chan. When KUN-chan gets a little sister named Mirai, he feels that his new sister stole his parents' love from him, and is overwhelmed by many experiences he undergoes for the first time in his life. In the midst of it all, he meets an older version of Mirai, who has come from the future.
Hosoda directed the film at his Yūichirō Saitō returned from Hosoda's earlier films.
Other previous films that have won the same award at Sitges include in 2011.
The live-action won the Grand Audience Award and Award for Best Special Effects at the festival in 2016.
Sources: Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival's Tadashi Sudo)
