Director: Tim Harper
After losing her family to a vanishing forest, a young orangutan finds an unlikely voice online in Ozi: Voice of the Forest, a 2024 animated adventure built around themes of family, communication, and conservation.
What is Ozi: Voice of the Forest about?
When the destruction of her forest home separates Ozi from her parents, she's taken in by wildlife sanctuary caretakers who keep her safe and patiently teach her sign language. That new skill, paired with an unexpected gift for connecting with an online audience, turns Ozi into a small sensation with a following that stretches around the world. Everything shifts again when she learns her parents may still be alive, sending her out to find them while also trying to make people understand what's happening to the rainforest before more of it disappears. A mischievous monkey named Chance and a gentle rhino named Honkus join her along the way, and together they discover that a single voice, amplified the right way, can genuinely move people to act.
Cast & crew
The film is directed by Tim Harper and features a voice cast that includes Amandla Stenberg, Dean-Charles Chapman, Urzila Carlson, Laura Dern, Djimon Hounsou, Donald Sutherland, RuPaul, and Marissa Anita. Production spanned France, India, the United Kingdom, and the United States, bringing together animation studios and a wide-ranging ensemble cast for its story about family and habitat loss.
Context & significance
Ozi: Voice of the Forest sits alongside a wave of recent animated features that use a young animal protagonist to talk directly about environmental loss without turning preachy, leaning instead on a rescue-and-reunion story audiences of any age can follow. Its cast, drawn from film, comedy, and music circles across several countries, reflects how conservation-minded animation now attracts recognizable names well beyond the genre's usual voice actors.
Where & how to watch
Ozi: Voice of the Forest is available on K-Time with a Persian-dubbed audio track for Farsi-speaking viewers. This page can be read in full without creating an account; streaming the film itself requires only a free K-Time login, after which the dubbed version is accessible through K-Time's Farsi-language interface.