On Tuesday 25 November, on the occasion of the Day against violence against women, Rai 1 will broadcast in prime time There’s still tomorrow, the directorial debut film of actress Paola Cortellesi, who it turned out to be a truly international case. Distributed in 126 countries, He has achieved incredible public and critical success everywhere, winning over 40 international awards from Norway to Australia, including six David di Donatello in Italy.
Perhaps the most sensational case is the Chinese one. There are not many Italian films that arrive in theaters in China, and it is surprising and a little funny that a film has made it that celebrates, in addition to the theme of violence against women, also the path of their emancipation with the conquest of the right to vote, which no one can exercise in China. But that aspect has certainly taken a back seat compared to that of domestic violence, which unfortunately is still very widespread in Chinese society. The first of There’s still tomorrow in China it took place with a special screening, organized by the Italian Consulate, on March 7th, one day before the official release, at the historic Grand Theater to celebrate International Women’s Day, in the presence of the director and actress Paola Cortellesi, and met with unprecedented success, with 1,300 people present in the room who, at the end of the screening, were also able to interact with the director with questions about the screenplay and the making of the film. First official screening then on March 8th with a masterclass at the end of the film held by Paola Cortellesi in front of a large audience of students and women.
In numerous interviews given in China Paola Cortellesi he talked a lot about domestic violence, feminicides and also about Giulia Cecchettin, without leaving out a reference to the possibility of defending one’s rights by going to vote.
In the first two days of screening in China the film had attracted 450,000 spectators, and from the last available report the film has totaled 1.059 million tickets sold.
The film in September won the Golden Panda Award and the Golden Goblet Award directly from the hands of Zhang Yimou and a few days ago in the city of Xiamen, on the occasion of the 38th edition of Golden Rooster Awardsthe most authoritative and coveted film award in China (which they consider the equivalent of the Oscar), There’s still tomorrow received the award as best foreign language film. This is the motivation: «The film deeply contemplates the scars of an era. Deconstructing domestic violence as a cyclical bodily metaphor, the work follows, with a singular gaze, the path that leads from individual female awakening to collective participation, carrying out a refined metamorphosis of the sensitivity of time in a poetic and suspended balance and formulating a contemporary criticism of family power structures.”
In fact There’s still tomorrow it was the most celebrated foreign film of the year. On the most authoritative rating platform in China, Douban, the film reaches 9.4/10 making it one of the films of 2025 most loved by the public for its cultural and social impact.
