তিমি’র গান / Song of Whales

Afroza Hossain Sara / 3rd AniMela Festival / Bangladesh, France / 12 min / 2024

A fisherman’s desperate search for fish is interrupted by the mournful call of a mother whale. Her grief awakens a ritual from the depths — a symphony of sea creatures in mourning. When silence returns, the fisherman survives, but nothing remains the same.


Based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Afroza Hossain Sara is an emerging writer-director known for her innovative fusion of Bengali folklore with the sensibilities of magical realism. With a strong academic foundation in Drawing and Painting, she emphasizes honest expression in her creative work while embracing evolving technologies to bring her stories to life.

After completing her 12-minute animated short film Song of Whales, she is currently working on her debut feature film Song of Jhinuk, which gained national and international attention by winning the West Meets East Screenplay Lab in 2023 [Dhaka International Film Festival]. In September 2023, she had the honor of presenting both of her films to the Honorable President of France during a cultural meetup held as part of his visit to Bangladesh as a selected representative of the Bangladeshi animation film industry by the Embassy of France in Bangladesh and Alliance Française de Dhaka.