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Animated movie based on a true story of the prophet Bilal, who was a slave boy that stood up for his freedom and against idol worship and greed in his community. The film is refreshingly devoid of all the usual trappings, like animals and birds talking and super-powers engaging in over-the-top action. The animation is slick and the performances are well above average for a drama of this kind. Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Concussion, Trumbo) voices the adult Bilal and Ian McShane (Annie Pompeii, Thor: The Dark World) is Umayya, the cruel slave-driver. Jacob Latimore is the teen Bilal. Resource

It was a bold move to make a film about a true hero of Islam and the Arab/Muslim world, but Bilal pulls it off without turning into a preachy or saccharine piece. It is a film that will appeal to both young and old.

The film does have its problems though. It is a bit dated in parts and some of the characters are underdeveloped, but it is still a very good film. It also has a lot of cinematic licence, since the historical records of Bilal’s life may be sketchy.

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The film also contains some of the usual nonsense that is associated with papermills and peer review fraud rings. This is exemplified by the fact that the rector of Poznan University, Jesionowski and his hosts in Gdansk Polytechnic recruited Bilal as a Nobelium professor on the basis of his papers in journals that are known to be part of a large papermill and fraud ring run by Pau Loke Show and coworkers, Jorg Rinklebe and Christian Sonne. The article Rowan et al Chemosphere 2022 that Bilal coauthored was edited by a member of this gang, Yasser Vasseghian. It is also worth pointing out that the paper Bilal coauthored with Iqbal and Rahdar was stolen from Raja et al 2019. The same is true for the book they published with Vineet Kumar (assistant professor at Goenka University in India) and Luiz Fernando Romanholo Ferreira (associate professor at Tiradentes University in Brazil).