Dear Tomorrow

Local title
Kallis homne päev
Director
Kaspar Astrup Schröder
Country
Denmark, Japan, Sweden
Year
2025
Festival
Kumu Dokumentaal 2025
Programme
Kumu Documentary

A film about loneliness in the modern world, and about finding the courage to reconnect with life based on a Japanese example.

Thirty-eight million people live in and around Tokyo, yet many of them are so lonely that in some cases it is life-threatening. Loneliness is so prevalent that Japan has appointed a Minister of Loneliness and experts speak of an (a)social pandemic throughout the modern world. In Dear Tomorrow we meet two lonely people. Unbeknownst to them, they are already connected to each other through the chat line “A Place for You”: a lifeline where every day young volunteers try to help thousands of people in crisis, but helping everyone is difficult.
This is a film you feel deeply, especially when the light finally breaks through and they gently find the human contact they have been missing. With its sensitive and luminous images, Dear Tomorrow is a quiet, attentive and poignant film about the universal need for contact and presence.

Director
Kaspar Astrup Schröder
Producer
Maria Helga Stürup, Katrine A. Sahlstrøm
Cinematographer
Kaspar Astrup Schröder
Editing
Laura Skiöld Østerud, Kaspar Astrup Schröder
Music
Jon Ekstrand
Music
Jon Ekstrand
Runtime
Language
Japanese
Subtitles
English
Director
Kaspar Astrup Schröder

Kaspar Astrup Schröder (b. 1979)

Selected: The Invention of Dr. Nakamats (2009, doc), Rent a Family Inc. (2012, doc), Big Time: Historien om Bjarke Ingels (Big Time, 2017, doc), Don't Give a Fox (2019, doc), Making a Mountain (2020, doc)

Screenings

Kumu auditoorium KUMU
ScreeningKallis homne päev
SubtitlesEnglish
Trailer