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Something Better to Come

Original title: Yula's Dream
German title: Something Better to Come
Denmark, Poland, Russia, 2014

Director: Polak, Hanna
Production company: Danish Documentary Production
Co-producers: RAI, EyeSteelFilm
Age recommendation: 12 years and up
Length: 98 min.
Film genre: Documentary

Synopsis:
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 closest family; here she lives her life, and from here her future springs.

Festivals:
Trieste FF 2015 (awarded), IDFA Amsterdam 2014 (awarded), ZagrebDox 2015 (awarded), Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Munich Documentary Festival 2015 (awarded), Krakow 2015, Sydney FF 2015, BFI London FF 2015, Just Film Tallinn 2015, YFF Rotterdam 2019

World sales address/es:
Films Transit (CA)