''Tomorrow'' is a 2019 Bangladeshi animated 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 was 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 Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eighth-most populous country in the world and among the List of countries and dependencies by ...

, is magically shown two very different visions of the future. In the first scenario, Bangladesh has been inundated by

rising sea level The sea level has been rising from the end of the last ice age, which was around 20,000 years ago. Between 1901 and 2018, the average sea level rose by , with an increase of per year since the 1970s. This was faster than the sea level had e ...

s, 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s have been replaced by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 Present-day climate change includes both global warming—the ongoing increase in Global surface temperature, global average temperature—and its wider effects on Earth's climate system. Climate variability and change, Climate change in ...

, and that the climate crisis can be solved by taxing

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so that fossil fuels are replaced with

and

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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

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in 29 November 2019. After about one month, it was officially released on

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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 350.org, tweeted positively 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 Films set in Bangladesh Animated films set in Asia Bengali-language animated films Bangladeshi short films