ANIAFF Returns in November with Kenji Kamiyama All-Night Retrospective
A regional festival's second edition is building its program around a single working director's screen history and a young visual artist with an international festival record, a pairing that tells you where ANIAFF wants its identity to sit.
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The Aichi Nagoya International Animation Film Festival announced its second edition, running November 13 to 18, 2026, at venues in Nagoya. The all-night program centers on a Kenji Kamiyama retrospective, including The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim and selections from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, with Kamiyama attending. Honami Yano, whose Eri was selected for Cannes Directors' Fortnight, created the main visual.
The festival runs six days in Nagoya, from November 13 to 18, 2026. The all-night program screens Kenji Kamiyama's The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim and three entries from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, including Solid State Society. Kamiyama will appear for a talk titled "The World of Kenji Kamiyama: Anime, the Future, and Technology" with guest Sanpo Sakai, who wrote the screenplay for Star Wars: Visions / The Ninth Jedi, and moderator artistic director Tadashi Sudo. Honami Yano, whose Eri was selected for Cannes Directors' Fortnight, created the main visual around the keywords "vortex, dynamism, gathering."
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- GameBusiness.jp 第2回ANIAFF、11月13日開幕。オールナイト部門で神山健治監督特集、メインビジュアルは矢野ほなみが担当