Tomorrow (2015 film)

Tomorrow[2] (French: Demain) is a 2015 French documentary film directed by Cyril Dion and Mélanie Laurent. Faced with a future that scientists say is a great cause for concern,[3] the film has the distinction of not giving in to catastrophism. Optimistically, it identifies initiatives that have been proven themselves in ten countries as examples of solutions to environmental and social challenges of the twenty-first century in agriculture, energy, economy, education and governance.

Tomorrow
Film poster of Tomorrow with the subtitle "All over the globe, solutions already exist".
Theatrical release poster
Directed byCyril Dion
Mélanie Laurent
Written byCyril Dion
Produced byBruno Levy
CinematographyAlexandre Léglise
Edited bySandie Bompar
Music byFredrika Stahl
Production
companies
Move Movie
Mars Films
Mely Productions
France 2 Cinéma
Distributed byMars Distribution
Release dates
  • 11 November 2015 (2015-11-11) (Sarlat Film Festival)
  • 2 December 2015 (2015-12-02) (France)
Running time
118 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Box office$11.3 million[1]

Tomorrow exceeded a million entries in France.[4] It won the 2016 César Award for Best Documentary Film and was distributed in 27 countries.[4]

Description

The film is organised in five chapters:

  • Agriculture
  • Energy
  • Economy
  • Democracy
  • Education

Production

Funding

Tomorrow's production team fell short in funding. On 27 May 2014, the team launched crowdfunding activities on the internet platform KissKissBankBank with the objective of gathering 200,000 Euro to finance the film and fund the rental of shooting equipment.[5] Two months later on 26 July the team had raised 444,390 Euro, more than a quarter of the budget of the film, with the help of 10,266 contributors.[6]

Contributors

Initiatives taking place in France (including Réunion), Finland, Denmark, Belgium, India, the United Kingdom, the United States, Switzerland, Sweden and Iceland are shown.[4] People appearing in the film include:

Analysis

Unlike other documentary films that focus on the cause of global environmental imbalances and their negative consequences (such as Le syndrome du Titanic, The Eleventh Hour, An Inconvenient Truth, That Should Not Be: Our Children Will Accuse Us and Home[8]), Tomorrow offers a constructive approach (similar to Solutions locales pour un désordre global) putting forward solutions to environmental problems facing mankind.[9]

Accolades
Award / Film Festival Category Recipients and nominees Result
César Awards[10] Best Documentary Film Won
Lumières Awards[11] Best Documentary Nominated
COLCOA French Film Festival[12] Best Documentary Won

Impact

The film was shown at COP 21, European Parliament, UN and at every school in Brussels by the Brussels Minister of the Environment. More than 700 projects related to the initiatives described in the film were launched in late 2016. The film has attracted a passion for alternative forms of consumption and participation in the society it presents. The co-director Cyril Dion has since been using the film's success to support the mouvement Colibris (Hummingbird movement), a group looking forward to change modern lifestyle, e.g. during the French presidential campaign of 2017.[13]

See also

References
  1. Demain, Box Office Mojo.
  2. Jordan Mintzer, "'Tomorrow' ('Demain'): Film Review", The Hollywood Reporter, 15 December 2015 (page visited on 31 August 2016).
  3. Anthony Barnosky, Elizabeth Hadly et al., "Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere", Nature, number 486, 7 Juin 2012, pages 52-58 (page visited on 31 August 2016). In addition to this article (mentioned in the film), Anthony Barnosky and Elizabeth Hadly also wrote the book End Game: Tipping Point for Planet Earth?, 2015 (ISBN 978-0007548170).
  4. Official website of Tomorrow (page visited on 8 September 2016).
  5. Cyril Dion, Demain, un nouveau monde en marche, Éditions Actes Sud, collection « Domaine du possible », 2015, page 18 (ISBN 978-2-330-05585-1)
  6. "#Demainlefilm a de bonnes nouvelles pour vous". KissKissBankBank. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
  7. Matt Richtel "San Francisco, ‘the Silicon Valley of Recycling’", The New York Times, 25 March 2016 (page visited on 1 September 2016).
  8. See notably: (in French) Thierry Paquot, article "Cinéma", in Dominique Bourg and Alain Papaux, Dictionnaire de la pensée écologique [Dictionary of Ecological Thinking], Presses universitaires de France, 2015 (ISBN 978-2-13-058696-8).
  9. (in French) Antoine Duplan, "« Demain » permet de croire à demain", Le temps, 18 December 2015 (page visited on 19 June 2016).
  10. "César Awards: 'Fatima' Scoops Surprise Best Picture Win; 'Mustang' Best Debut, Screenplay". Deadline Hollywood. 27 February 2016. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
  11. "Prix Lumières 2016 : Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse et Mustang en tête des nominations". AlloCiné. 4 January 2016.
  12. "Palmarès COLCOA 2016: Les Innocentes, 10% et Le Bureau des légendes primés". Allociné. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
  13. Diane Lisarelli (13 April 2017). "Le monde après "Demain"". liberation.fr (in French). Retrieved 13 April 2017.

Further reading
  • Cyril Dion, Tomorrow: All Over the Globe, Solutions Already Exist, Chelsea Green publishing and Actes Sud publishing, 2017 (ISBN 978-2-330-07909-3).
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