Tomorrow Will Be Better

Though it won Berlin Film Festival’s International Children’s Jury Prize this year, this film from Poland’s world famous Dorota Kędzierzawska  (Crows, A Time to Die, Nothing) is actually built for an adult audience.

Three homeless Ukranian boys, contemporary Huck Finns, are off on an adventure to cross the border in search of a better world in Poland.  Drifting around towns and markets, loitering at train stations, begging food and stealing what they can’t beg, the kids are survivors. But once they take off across the countryside, the possibilities of a new life seem to imbue the children with near invincibility, no matter the reality that looms ahead.

Writer/Director Dorota Kędzierzawska, 54, crafts a deeply empathic and poetic work, stunningly photographed by her husband, veteran cameraman Arthur Reinhart. Tomorrow Will Be Bettertransforms an impoverished and difficult world into an optimistic impulse towards freedom. (Child roles played by street kids met during search for locations.)

Print Source: Kid Film. Arthur Reinhart, arthur@kidfilm.pl