Hayao Miyazaki won’t be attending Cannes this year. Instead, a Studio Ghibli representative will accept the Honorary Palme d’or for the famed studio, bringing along some exclusive screenings as well.
Hayao’s fellow Studio Ghibli director and his son, Gorō Miyazaki, are representing theanime movieproduction company at the annual film festival. Gorō will take part in a ceremony atCannesonMonday, May 20, at 3:30pm CETto receive the prize for Ghibli.
Excitingly, four shorts are being shown as part of the event, three of which have never made their way outside of Japan. The four films are: Mei and the Baby Cat Bus, House Hunting, Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess, and Boro the Caterpillar, all made and screened exclusively at the Ghibli museum in Mitaka.
These aren’t the only Ghibli rarities at Cannes, either. A behind-the-scenes documentary, Hayao and the Heron, charting his time directingThe Boy and the Heron, is being shown onSunday, May 19, at 9:30pm CET.
So far, Hayao and the Heron is just an extra on the Japanese home media release of The Boy and the Heron. With any luck, the subtitled version shown at Cannes will be what comes with the Blu-ray and 4K versions in the US and Britain.
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For now, Cannes attendees get to be the lucky ones. If you’d like to see more of what’s been shown at the festival, check out ourFuriosa reviewand ourKinds of Kindness review. We have anupcoming animeguide, for what shows and films you definitely can watch soon.
Anthony McGlynn is a Senior Anime Writer on Dexerto’s UK team. An expert on animes like Demon Slayer, Solo Leveling and My Hero Academia, he also has over 10 years experience covering games and pop culture for outlets such as Variety, IGN, Den of Geek, PCGamesN, PCGamer, The Digital Fix, and many more. You can contact him at: anthony.mcglynn@dexerto.com
