The documentary “Something better to come“, from Polish director Hanna POLAK has been selected to run in the international competition section of the travelling festival ONE WORLD. The festival is devoted to documentary films which highlight the topic of human rights. From 4 until 12 May, 2015, the ONE WORLD festival will be making a stop in Brussels.
The film “Something better to come” will be screened on 7 May at 18:30 at the Goethe Institut.
The screening will be followed by a debate with Hanna POLAK, the director of the film, Unico van Kooten, European secretary of the organisation Dutch Waste Management Association, Sarah Nelen, member of the EU Commissioner Frans Timmermans’ team, and Maciej Nowicki, the director of the Polish festival Watch Docs.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
>>> Goethe Institute (Rue Belliard 58, 1040 Brussels) – see map
>>> 7 May 2015 – 18:30
>>> Free entrance but mandatory registration HERE
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Something Better to Come (PL/DK, 2014, 98′)
Right outside of Moscow – home to the highest number of billionaires pr. capita – you’ll find the largest junkyard in the world: The Svalka. It’s a hard place run by the Russian mafia. And it’s where Yula lives with her mother, her friends and many other people. Life is tough in the Svalka, but it’s also a place where beauty and humanity can arise from the most unlikely conditions. It is from this place that Yula’s dreams of escaping and changing her life, even if it seems impossible. Oscar-nominated director Hanna Polak followed Yula for 14 years, bringing us along on Yula’s journey to achieve this dream.
Hanna POLAK is the Oscar-nominated director of the 2004-film The Children of Leningradsky. She is also a producer and a cinematographer. She gradutated from the cinematography division of VGIK in Russia. Her first film to win critical acclaim was Railway Station Ballad in 2002. Later she was nominated for an academy-award and won several other awards for the film The Children of Leningradsky. Hanna Polak is not only a critically acclaimed filmmaker, but also a dedicated humanitarian. Alongside the film projects that she run, she also has an intense political and humanist agenda, her films always have a purpose and carry a message. She was rewarded both a Golden Heart-Award and a Crystal Mirror-Award. Hanna has just finished the film Something Better To Come, which she has been shooting for the past 14 years, even before she made The Children of Leningradsky.
ONE WORLD is devoted to documentary films which stand up for human rights. The Brussels version, which is the 9th, will take place from 4 until 12 May 2015. 17 films, selected in Prague (and in 33 other Czech cities) at the Czech edition of the festival, will be screened in various venues in the capital: Bozar, European Parliament, the Goethe Institut, the Norwegian Mission to the EU and cinéma Aventure. The screenings will all be followed by audiences with the directors, human rights activists, experts or representatives of the European Union. The screenings are free (apart from Bozar and Cinéma Aventure) but you need to register before the event (especially for the European Parliament).
