Tomorrow Will Be Better

Tomorrow Will Be Better

2011 · 118 min · ★ 6.3 · Drama, Adventure

Three Russian street kids, who live on their wits in a train station, take off to the countryside hoping to make it across the border to a better life in Poland. They are alternately looking for tenderness and pushing it away because they sense that it is a sign of vulnerability they can ill-afford. Kędzierzawska has the rare ability to take the world of children on its own terms. There is not a false note in this dazzlingly beautiful and emotionally involving story of three kids trying to find their path to a new life.

Directed by Dorota Kędzierzawska · Written by Dorota Kędzierzawska

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