Lest you thought GKids was sitting out Awards Season… They have two big pictures opening in September for Academy Award consideration. Raúl De La Fuente & Damian Nenow’s Another Day of Life will bow September 13th in both New York and Los Angeles. A week later, on September 20th, the distributor will open Studio Trigger’s anime spectacular Promare in three southern California theaters.

An official Cannes selection and winner of festival prizes and awards worldwide, Another Day of Life is a daringly ambitious dive into the chaos of war, based on the book by the journalist Ryszard “Ricardo” Kapuściński, one of the world’s most compelling chroniclers of conflict.

Intercutting a graphically bold animation style with interviews and archival footage, the visually striking film conveys a rare immediacy as it tells of the outbreak of civil war following Angola’s independence from Portugal in 1975. Against all advice, Kapuściński is intent on driving south into the heart of the bloody conflict to find the isolated rebel leader Farrusco. His animated trip through corpse-strewn roads conveys an undeniable urgency, while the documentary testimony reminds us that we are watching actual history.

GKIDS will release Another Day of Life in New York on September 13 at the IFC Center 323 6th Ave, New York, NY 10014 and in Los Angeles at the Laemmle Glendale 207 N. Maryland Ave, Glendale, CA 91206

The first feature-length film from the acclaimed Studio TRIGGER, creators of the hit series “KILL la KILL” and “Little Witch Academia”, and director Hiroyuki Imaishi (GURREN LAGANN, KILL la KILL), Promare uses a bold cel-shaded visual style to tell a blistering action-adventure story, and is the spiritual successor to many of director Imaishi’s former works.

Thirty years has passed since the appearance of Burnish, a race of flame-wielding mutant beings, who destroyed half of the world with fire. When a new group of aggressive mutants calling themselves “Mad Burnish” appears, the epic battle between Galo Thymos, a new member of the anti-Burnish rescue team “Burning Rescue,” and Lio Fotia, the leader of “Mad Burnish” begins.

GKIDS will release PROMARE in Los Angeles on September 20 at the AMC Citywalk Stadium 19 (100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, CA 91608), AMC Galleria At South Bay 16 (1815 Hawthorne Blvd Suite 368, Redondo Beach, CA 90278), and AMC Ontario Mills 30 (4549 Mills Cir, Ontario, CA 91764).