Tomorrow Will Be Better

Running time: 118 mins

Three homeless boys, Ukrainian Huck Finns are off on an odyssey to find a better world ? across the border, in a magic place called Poland.

The plot is simplicity itself; the theme, a dark one; but as viewers of Dorota Kędzierzawska?s A Time to Die (Cinequest, 2008) or Nothing (Cinequest, 1998) know, in the hands of this poet of Polish cinema even a potentially downbeat subject becomes filled with light and beauty. It is not the depressing circumstances of the lives of the boys, Vasya, Petya and Liapa, that are portrayed here, but rather their indomitable spirits, their sense of adventure and having fun, their propensity for finding joy and their unquenchable hope. Convinced they will someday ?return as kings," nothing ? least of all reality ? can get them down.

This is a stunningly lovely, poetic film with a deep empathy for its characters, full of moments that will take your breath away, even as little Petya steals your heart.

- Charlie Cockey

Film sponsored by the Applied Materials Foundation.