LOGLINE: In a war-shadowed European town, a small boy whose father has gone to fight and whose mother has gone silent builds himself a world of wonder — guided by tiny clowns only he can see — racing to earn a ticket to the circus his father promised to take him to before it leaves forever. SHORT DESCRIPTION: A hand-painted, Studio Ghibli-adjacent animated feature set in 1940s Europe, THE LAST CIRCUS is a tender and devastating story about childhood resilience, grief, and the imagination as an act of survival. Told almost entirely through the eyes of a young boy navigating abandonment, loneliness, and love in a brownstone townhouse overlooking a circus he can see but cannot yet reach, the film moves with quiet grace toward a conclusion that is simultaneously the saddest and most beautiful thing it could be.