Poupelle of Chimney Town

Poupelle of Chimney Town (映画 えんとつ町のプペル, 2020) is a Japanese animated fantasy film you can watch online on iFILM. The city in this story is walled off from the world, its skies permanently hidden by the smoke of thousands of chimneys. No one has ever seen a star. Claiming the sky even exists is enough to get you branded a heretic.

Young Lubicchi holds onto one thing his father left him: the belief that stars are real, waiting above the haze. On Halloween night, a heart falls from the sky, landing in the city's trash heap — and from that trash a creature called Poupelle takes shape. The two become unlikely companions on a quest to prove what everyone insists is impossible. The film earns its emotion through specific, quietly strange details rather than sweeping drama, and that restraint makes the ending land harder than expected.

Stream Poupelle of Chimney Town (2020) online on iFILM.