Scene from the film Tomorrow
Scene from the film Tomorrow
Scene from the film Tomorrow
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Tomorrow

Direction
Year 
2017
Country
  • Belarus
Runtime
75min 
Audio Tracks 
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In a small, snow-covered town in Belarus, a former English teacher manages to scrape a living distributing leaflets to people’s letterboxes. In the evening, he joins his wife in their dingy apartment, and together they reminisce about their son, a student in Minsk they rarely see. Possibly their only excitement of the week is buying a lottery ticket, which, for a few seconds, gives them a chance to dream.

Yuliya Shatun’s camera, at first oddly focused on the white expanses along every roadside, then begins to scrutinise the teacher in his comings and goings. The film’s precise recording hints at the morose underside of the landscape. The teacher has stoically adapted to a degenerate world and a life fuelled by stifled shame. An odour of neglect wafts between the apartment blocks, the uttered words and the background noise of the television.

Universal anonymity seems to be crying out for help to finally break free from this poverty-driven ennui. Yet when the story shifts to the big city, the crowd is cloaked in fear rather than wonder. Instead of captivating, the city lights almost suggest that we should run and hide. The fiction dissolves in greater attention to the faceless masses and even our teacher disappears for a while. Every step you take has a price in this city that raises hopes before promptly dashing them. Who is responsible for moderating our dreams? For Yuliya Shatun, looking out of the window, the answer can be perhaps found in the vast, motionless expanses of white that, unlike the city, does not lie.
FIDMarseille

Details

  • Original Title
    Zavtra
  • Direction
  • Screenplay
    Yuliya Shatun
  • Cinematography
    Nikita Alexandrov
  • Editing
    Yuliya Shatun
  • Sound
    Igor Titov, Yury Mezhevich
  • Runtime
    75 min (46-90 min.)
  • Year
    2017
  • Country
    • Belarus
  • Format
    • Colour
  • Production
  • Festivals
    • FIDMarseille 2018
  • Awards
    • Georges de Beauregard International Prize Special Mention, First Film Award, Renaud Victor Award - FIDMarseille 2018

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