Tomorrow (2017): cast, story & where to watch

Released in 2017, Tomorrow is a drama film directed by Yuliya Shatun, running about 75 minutes.

What it’s about. 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.

Who’s in it. Tomorrow stars Anatoliy Shatun, Oksana Shatun, Alexey Shatun and Nikita Alexandrov, among others.

How it landed. With an audience score of 5.7/10, Tomorrow has drawn a solid, mixed-to-positive response.

Where to watch. In US you can stream it on DocAlliance Films and rent or buy it from DocAlliance Films. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch Tomorrow page.

If you liked it. Fans of Tomorrow tend to enjoy The Shawshank Redemption, The Godfather, Schindler's List and The Godfather Part II.