Tomorrow (2017)
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 – a precise recording with, however, a hint of the moroseness of a terrain so rare in today’s cinema. 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. A certain irony floats in the air too, and it needs Yuliya Shatun’s patience to grasp and take responsibility for it.
Director:
Yuliya Shatun
Writer:
Yuliya Shatun
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Anatoliy Shatun as |
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Oksana Shatun as |
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Alexey Shatun as |
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Nikita Alexandrov as |
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Yuliya Shatun as |
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Yana Taratun as |
| Directing | Yuliya Shatun | Director |
| Editing | Yuliya Shatun | Editor |
| Production | Yuliya Shatun | Producer |
| Camera | Nikita Alexandrov | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Yuliya Shatun | Screenplay |
| Sound | Max Gavrilenko | Sound |