PL, JP | 2010 | colour | 118 min
reż|dir Dorota Kędzierzawska pro|pro Artur Reinhard, Kid Film sce|sc Dorota Kędzierzawska zdj|ph Artur Reinhart muz|mus Michal Pajdiak, Honza Martinek mon|ed Dorota Kędzierzawska, Artur Reinhart ob|cast Oleg Ryba, Jewgienij Ryba, Akhmed Sardalov, Stanisław Sojka dys|dis Kid Films

Awarded during latest Berlin International Film Festival film Tommorrow will be Better is a polish-japanese production directed by Dorota Kędzierzawska, an acclaimed author of films showing the life of children. Three homeless boys living in Russia, Pietia, Waśka and Liapa, dream of escape into Poland. Boys living at a railway station think that a better world awaits them there and thus they look forward with hope for a normal life. The plot is based on a real story, that inspired Kędzierzawska to write a film screenplay. Her film is an attempt to look at the world of those children without infantile simplification, with actors found on one of the forgotten Russian housing estates. The plot recalls 300 miles to heaven film directed by Maciej Dejczer, but it’s spirit is quite different. It a story full of optimism and warmth, showing the power of child’s dreams.  

AWARDS
2009 Berlin IFF – Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk Grand Prix, Peace Film Award

DIRECTOR | Dorota Kędzierzawska (1957) Director and screenwriter. She studied cultural sciences at the Łódź University, and than directing in Moscov and Łódź. Kędzierzawska directed The Crows, a story about two girls awarded in Cannes. One of her last movies was “Time to Die”, a moving picture showing life on an elderly lady, created by Danuta Szaflarska.