Something Better to Come explained

Something Better to Come
Director:Hanna Polak
Producer:
Hanna Polak
Starring:Yula
Music:Kristian Eidnes Andersen
Cinematography:Hanna Polak
Editing:Marcin Bastkowski
Runtime:98 minutes
Country:
Language:Russian

Something Better to Come is a Danish-Polish documentary film about children living on a garbage dump near Moscow directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Hanna Polak and produced by of Danish Documentary. Something Better to Come won the Special Jury Award at the IDFA documentary festival, where the film had premiered.

Content

In 2000, in parallel with shooting The Children of Leningradsky, Hanna began working on Something Better to Come. This was the same year Vladimir Putin stepped into power in Russia and coincidentally, the story of Yula, the main characterof the film, is parallel to the unfolding story of Putin's Russia.

Ten-year-old Yula has but one dream – to lead a normal life. For 14 years, Hanna Polak follows Yula as she grows up in the forbidden territory of Svalka, the garbage dump located 13 miles from the Kremlin in Putin's Russia. Something Better to Come is Yula's story – a dramatic tale of coming of age and maturing to the point of taking destiny into one's own hands. It is a storyof hope, courage, and life, all shot in gripping vérité style that stuns with its directness and immediacy.

Reception

The film has received wide positive acclaim from critics. Mark Adams from Screen Daily stated that Something Better to Come is "strikingly visceral and plaintively moving documentary that is arresting right from its first powerful moments" and added that "This is a film that packs an emotional punch and is strikingly directed and shot by the talented Hanna Polak."[1] Aleksandr Gorbachev from Newsweek called the film "a great coming-of-age story – Boyhood from a trash can."[2] Sheri Linden from The Los Angeles Times described the film as "work of powerful images – heart-rending, elegiac, charged with hope."[3] Joshua Oppenheimer, director of The Act of Killing, stated that his "most powerful experience of nonfiction cinema this year was [...] Something Better to Come."[4] While Neil Young from The Hollywood Reporter reviewed it as "an eye-opening documentary."[5]

Awards

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Something Better to Come. Screen Daily.
  2. Web site: The Best Documentaries of 2015 (So Far). Newsweek.
  3. Web site: 'Something Better to Come' reveals lives in a Russian dump. Los Angeles Times.
  4. Web site: Oscars 2015: they should have been contenders…. The Guardian.
  5. Web site: 'Something Better to Come': IDFA Review. The Hollywood Reporter.
  6. Web site:
    1. HSDFF Award Winners & Sunday, October 18 Schedule
    . Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival.
  7. Web site: A Film Festival's Fight for Human Rights. Handelsblatt Global Edition.
  8. Web site: The Winners. Jameson CineFest.
  9. Web site: Winner of the Berlin's Favourite Award 2015. Favourites Film Festival Berlin.
  10. Web site: Awards of the XXIX Pärnu Film Festival. Pärnu Film Festival.
  11. Web site: Winners at Valletta Film Festival 2015. Valletta Film Festival.
  12. Web site: Documentary Edge Festival Celebrates Illustrious Awards!. Documentary Edge Festival.
  13. Web site: Winners of 13. Gdańsk DocFilm Festival. Gdańsk DocFilm Festival .
  14. Web site: Something Better to Come Awarded Twice In Russia. Polish Docs.
  15. Web site: A unique encounter of film and world visions – the winners of 12th Docs Against Gravity Film Festival have been announced. Docs Against Gravity Film Festival.
  16. Web site: Winners 2015. Dok.fest Muenchen.
  17. Web site: 'Something Better to Come' And 'Starting Point' Awarded At DocumentaMadrid. Polish Docs.
  18. Web site: 'War without Trace' named Best Film at One World Brussels. Cineuropa.
  19. Web site: Eurodok Award to Something Better to Come. Norwegian Film Institute.
  20. Web site: 11th ZagrebDox winners announced. ZagrebDox.
  21. Web site: The awards of the 13th edition of the FIFDH have been announced!. International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights.
  22. Web site: The Winner. Trieste Film Festival.
  23. Web site: Something Better to Come Wins at IDFA. Danish Film Institute.

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