Tomorrow Τhings Will Be Better

Men, women and children carry on a secular tradition of humanity; to move towards other places, other times, to find happiness. Tomorrow Things Will Be Better is the story of these people of the past and the present, who will again have to move tomorrow, for all kinds of reasons. A film made of a series of authentic meetings, life stories on how Muslims and christians see each other in a region called Western thrace, a crossroads of European and Oriental mentalities and religions at the Greek-turkish-Bulgarian border.

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Script: Angelos Abazoglou

Cinematography: Μilivoj Ivkovic, Stamatis Yannoulis

Editing: Fani Ziozia

Sound: Yannis Ηaralambidis, Dimitris Athanassopoulos

Production: Cyclope Productions, Greece

Producers: Οlga Abazoglou

Co-production: ZDF/ARTE (Germany), ΕΡτ AE/ERT SA hellenic Broadcasting Corp.

Format: Beta SP' Color-B&W

Production Country: Greece/Germany

Production Year: 1998

Duration: 70

Prize - Fajr IFF 1999, Iran
Prize - International Antalya Golden orange Film Festival 1999, Turkey

Angelos Abazoglou

An actor and filmdirector, angelos abazoglou studied theater and filmDirection at the Institut national Superieur des Arts du Spectacle in Brussels, Belgium. He honed his acting skills at the Theatre de l’Acte de Toulouse-Grenier in toulouse, France. He has directed theatrical plays, documentary films and TV commercials.

Filmography

Selected
1996 Tomorrow Things Will Be Better
1998 Olive Oil, Water and Tomato (short)
2002 Art Cinema
2003 The Icon
2005 Zaharoff, Agent of Death
2007 Murder at the Agora
2009 Welcome in Greece, Mr. Marshall
2011 Mustafa’s Sweet Dreams