International Competition

Something Better to Come

Hanna Polak
Screening time  
23.02. / Monday, 15:00 - 17:00 Theatre 1  
24.02. / Tuesday, 20:00 - 22:00 Theatre 2  
28.02. / Saturday, 13:00 - 15:00 Theatre 1  
Right outside of Moscow you'll find the largest junkyard in the world: The Svalka. It is from this place that Yula dreams of escaping and changing her life, even if it seems impossible.

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 dreams of escaping and changing her life, even if it seems impossible.

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Hanna Polak

Hanna Polak (1967) is an Oscar-nominated director graduated from the Cinematography Division of the Cinematography Institute of the Russian Federation. She worked on various movies as producer, director, cinematographer and still photographer. In 2002, she was awarded Best Producer of Documentary and Short Fiction Movies in Poland for Railway Station Ballad. In 2004 she completed work on The Children of Leningradsky in collaboration with HBO. The movie received an Oscar nomination (2005), an IDA Award and two Emmy nominations, among others. Hanna has been advocating the case of homeless children all over the world. She founded and collaborated with Active Child Aid foundation and collaborates with UNICEF.

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Something Better to Come

Denmark
2014, 110'

Directed by:
Hanna Polak

Cinematography:
Hans Jurgen Burkard, Hanna Polak

Edited by:
Pernille Bech Christensen

Producer:
Sigrid Dyekjær

Produced by:
Danish Documentary Production

Festivals & Awards:

Amsterdam, IDFA / The Netherlands (19-11-2014 - 30-11-2014) Moscow, ArtDocFest / Russia (09-12-2014 - 17-12-2014)