''Tomorrow'' (french: Demain) is a 2015 French

documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bil ...

directed by

Cyril Dion Cyril Dion is a French writer, film director, poet, and activist. Early life and education After studying at the École d'art dramatique Jean-Périmony (drama school) and a very brief career as an actor, Cyril Dion coordinated projects for the ...

and

Mélanie Laurent Mélanie Laurent (; born 21 February 1983) is a French actress, filmmaker, and singer. The recipient of two César Awards and a Lumières Award, she is an accomplished actress in the French film industry. Globally, she is best known for her role ...

. Faced with a future that scientists say is a great cause for concern,Anthony Barnosky, Elizabeth Hadly ''et al.''
"Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere"
''

Nature Nature, in the broadest sense, is the physics, physical world or universe. "Nature" can refer to the phenomenon, phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. The study of nature is a large, if not the only, part of science. ...

'', 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 (). the film has the distinction of not giving in to catastrophism. Optimistically, it identifies initiatives that 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'' exceeded a million entries in France. It won the 2016

César Award for Best Documentary Film The César Award for Best Documentary Film (french: César du meilleur film documentaire) is an award presented by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma since 1995. History In 1995, director Marcel Ophüls protested that his film, t ...

and was distributed in 27 countries.Official website of ''Tomorrow''
(page visited on 8 September 2016).

Description

The film is organised in five chapters: * Agriculture * Energy * Economy * Democracy * Education

Production

Funding

''Tomorrows 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. 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.

Contributors

Initiatives taking place in France (including

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), Finland, Denmark, Belgium, India, the United Kingdom, the United States, Switzerland, Sweden and Iceland are shown. People appearng 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 ''An Inconvenient Truth'' is a 2006 American documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim about former United States Vice President Al Gore's campaign to educate people about global warming. The film features a slide show that, by Gore's own e ...

'', '' That Should Not Be: Our Children Will Accuse Us'' and ''

Home A home, or domicile, is a space used as a permanent or semi-permanent residence for one or many humans, and sometimes various companion animals. It is a fully or semi sheltered space and can have both interior and exterior aspects to it. H ...

''), '' Tomorrow '' offers a constructive approach (similar to ''Solutions locales pour un désordre global'') putting forward solutions to environmental problems facing mankind.

Accolades

Impact

The film was shown at

COP 21 The 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 21 or CMP 11 was held in Paris, France, from 30 November to 12 December 2015. It was the 21st yearly session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the 1992 United Nations Framework Conve ...

European Parliament The European Parliament (EP) is one of the legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union (known as the Council and informally as the Council of Ministers), it adopts ...

, UN and at every school in

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

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

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.

References

External links

Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at Demain (film, 2015); see its history for attribution. * (US) * (FR) * * {{Portal bar, Film, France, Society, Environment French documentary films Documentary films about environmental issues Films directed by Mélanie Laurent Films about activists 2015 documentary films 2010s French films