LUCHETTI TRIBUTE In the director’s own words, “It’s Happening Tomorrow is a fable from the Maremma region of Tuscany and a philosophical Western. I tried in my first film to find an as-yet-unseen setting for Italian cinema, an original story and, in some cases, new actors; but above all a new spirit: characters treated not with the traditional cynicism, but with affection that is given to all the figures in the story without discrimination, with realism tempered by irony and by a sense of wonder. The film is meant to be a eulogy to ingenuity, to optimism, and to those—educated people and philosophers, cowboys and brigands—who have plunged into the future with the desire to discover and with the unlimited optimism of those who have faith in tomorrow.” The US premiere of It’s Happening Tomorrow took place at SFIFF 1989.


Domani accadrà, Italy 1988, 87 min. Written by Daniele Luchetti, Franco Bernini, Angelo Pasquini. Photographed by Franco di Giacomo. With Paolo Hendel, Giovanni Guidelli, Margherita Buy, Claudio Bigagli SACIS.