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  • 2015
  • International Film Circuit
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 2015
  • International Film Circuit
  • 1 h 38 m

Summary 11-year-old Yula lives in one of the most desolate places on Earth: the Svalka, the biggest junkyard in Europe, 20 km outside the center of Moscow. Surrounded by barbed wire and guards, the area is closely monitored to keep intruders out. But in the junkyard lives a group of people in a small, lawless society. These people make up Yula’s...

  • 2015
  • International Film Circuit
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 2015
  • International Film Circuit
  • 1 h 38 m

Something Better to Come

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Summary 11-year-old Yula lives in one of the most desolate places on Earth: the Svalka, the biggest junkyard in Europe, 20 km outside the center of Moscow. Surrounded by barbed wire and guards, the area is closely monitored to keep intruders out. But in the junkyard lives a group of people in a small, lawless society. These people make up Yula’s...

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90
Jun 4, 2015
Beyond her tenacious and intimate reporting, director and cinematographer Polak has made a work of powerful images — heart-rending, elegiac, charged with hope.
By Sheri Linden FULL REVIEW
70
May 21, 2015
A bit of community spirit and camaraderie, it seems, can go a very long way, and sequences of spectacularly dystopian-apocalyptic, third-world bleakness are leavened by moments of incongruous beauty, even grace.
By Neil Young FULL REVIEW
70
May 21, 2015
Approach Something Better to Come with the same patience that the filmmaker exhibited in shooting it and you’ll be rewarded. That is, if your definition of “rewarded” includes being dismayed by the bleakness that exists on the edges of prosperity.
By Neil Genzlinger FULL REVIEW
70
May 19, 2015
Perhaps even more disturbing than the Dickensian in extremis ordeal of Svalka life — including her rational yet heartbreaking decision to give up her baby rather than raise it in the dump — is Yula's straightforward acceptance of her situation.
By Pete Vonder Haar FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Active Child Aid Foundation, Chicken And Egg Pictures, Danish Documentary Production, Danmarks Radio (DR), Det Danske Filminstitut, HBO Europe, Hanna Polak Films, Human Broadcasting The Netherlands, NHK, Nordisk Film & TV-Fond, Paula And Axel Nissen Fonden, Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej, Pools and Lottery Funds of the Ministry of Education
Release Date May 22, 2015
Duration 1 h 38 m
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Tagline Her name is Yula. She lives in Putin's Russia. Her home is the largest garbage dump in Europe. This is the story of her life.
Website http://danishdocumentary.com/films/somethingbettertocome/
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Awards

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• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Munich International Documentary Festival (DOK.fest)
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Nuremberg International Human Rights Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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