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Animation is Film Festival Screens Scarlet, All You Need Is Kill, ChaO, Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc

GKIDS, Annecy International Animation Film Festival, and Variety's Animation is Film festival revealed on Wednesday that Mamoru Hosoda and Studio Chizu's Scarlet, Kenichiro Akimoto and Studio 4°C's All You Need Is Kill, and Yasuhiro Aoki and Studio 4°C's ChaO will screen in competition at the festival. Scarlet is screening as the festival's opening night film. The festival will also feature a special screening of Tatsuya Yoshihara and MAPPA's Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc.

The Animation is Film festival will take place at Los Angeles on October 17-19.

The Scarlet film will open in Japan on November 21. The 82nd Venice International Film Festival screened the world premiere with five screenings on September 4-5. The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) screened the North American premiere at the 50th annual event as a Special Presentation, with four screenings on September 10-12. The New York Film Festival will screen the film with two screenings on October 7-8.

All You Need Is Kill screened at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France in June. The film then had its North American premiere screening at this year's 29th annual Fantasia International Film Festival that was held from July 16 through August 3 in Montreal. New York Comic Con will screen the film's U.S. premiere on October 10.

ChaO opened in Japan on August 15. The film premiered at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in June, and itwon the Jury Prize. The JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film screened the film on its opening night at New York on July 10. The film then screened at the 29th annual Fantasia International Film Festival, which ran from July 16 through August 3 in Montreal. The film will compete for the Grand Prize for Feature Animation at this year's Ottawa International Animation Festival, which will be held from September 24-28.

Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc will open in Japan on September 19. Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has acquired worldwide theatrical rights the film. The company will open the film in theaters in the United States on October 24, several days earlier than its originally scheduled October 29 release. The film will open in the United Kingdom on October 29, and will also open the film earlier in more than 80 countries on September 24.

Science SARU and director Naoko Yamada's The Colors Within (Kimi no Iro) feature film won the Audience Award at last year's Animation Is Film festival.

Source: Press release