A New Dawn

A New Dawn (2026) is a Japanese-French animated drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Yoshitoshi Shinomiya. Keitaro has been living inside a 330-year-old fireworks factory for four years. The city has ordered it demolished. He isn't leaving until he finishes what his father started.

The Shuhari — a mythical firework his father was building before vanishing — has never been seen in the sky. Keitaro works in its shadow, in a factory stripped of its trees and surrounded by a solar farm that replaced the forest. When Kaoru returns to the town she left after her own tragedy, she finds a strange blue pigment on the workshop shelf. It turns out to be the piece neither of them knew they were missing.

At 75 minutes, the film earns every moment of quiet it asks for. Shinomiya builds grief out of colour and craftsmanship rather than dialogue — the Shuhari becomes a stand-in for everything we hold onto when the person who built it is gone. Stream A New Dawn (2026) online on iFILM.