An official Cannes press release states that three of the four short films have never been screened outside Japan, and come “straight from the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka”.
The films include 2002's 'Mei and the Baby Cat Bus', which was billed as a “mini-sequel” to Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki's 1989 classic 'My Neighbor Totoro'.
Organizers said Hayao Miyazaki, 83, would not attend the French festival in person, but his son Goro Miyazaki would take the stage for the ceremony on Monday afternoon.