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short film directed by Mohammad Shihab Uddin which was released in 2019 on Deepto TV. The film is produced by Kazi Zahin Hasan and Kazi Zeeshan Hasan for Kazi Media Limited while Cycore Studios provided the animation and production services for the film. The main purpose of the film is to explain the climate change crisis to children. It won the best animation film award at Cannes world film festival for the month of August, 2021.

Plot

A young boy named Ratul in Bangladesh, is magically shown two very different visions of the future. In the first scenario, Bangladesh has been inundated by rising sea levels, causing great suffering. In the second scenario,

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s have been replaced by

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and Bangladesh is prosperous. The film explains that burning

s causes climate change, and that the climate crisis can be solved by taxing fossil fuels so that fossil fuels are replaced with

and nuclear power.

Voice cast

* Deepak Kumar Goswami as ''Batasher Buro'' (Old Wind Man) The character was inspired by the ghosts of

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* Eashan Abdullah as ''Ratul'' (younger) * Mohammad Morshed Siddique as ''Ratul'' (adult) * Raju Ahmed as ''father of Ratul'' * Tom Freeman as ''foreigner journalist'' * Sajib Roy as villager 01 * Rafiqul Islam as villager 02 * Shafiqul Islam as villager 03 * Albino George Pike as villager 04 (Voice over: Mohammad Bari)

Release

The short film originally released on Deepto TV, a Bangladeshi satellite television in 29 November 2019. After about one month, it was officially released on YouTube.

Reception

Bill Mckibben William Ernest McKibben (born December 8, 1960)"Bill Ernest McKibben." ''Environmental Encyclopedia''. Edited by Deirdre S. Blanchfield. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2009. Retrieved via ''Biography in Context'' database, December 31, 2017. is a ...

, founder of

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, tweeted about the film.

References

{{reflist 2019 television films 2019 films 2019 computer-animated films Bangladeshi animated films Bengali-language Bangladeshi films Bangladeshi television films 2010s Bengali-language films