Your Tomorrow
**Seen at the 2025 Atlanta Film Festival
Every documentary, on some level, is observational about life and human nature. Ali Weinstein’s “Your Tomorrow” is very much observational in that it looks at life without really getting deep into the psyche of the people it’s watching. Yes, there are times we follow them more intently, like the couple that comes to sit by the water, or some of the workers of Ontario Place, but for the most part, Weinstein is content to just sit back, and let life play out for these people.
Ontario Place is a public park complex just across Toronto which, for 55 years, has been a place for people to come, take walks, spend time at the beach, watch concerts, take in an IMAX show, or just commune with others. For years, one of the islands has been left in disrepair, and the providence wants to turn it over to a commercial property for a spa. That leaves the people who love this place wanting to do something to try and stop it, but bureaucrats and politicians don’t often like to listen to their citizens when big corporate money is involved.
“Your Tomorrow” is slice-of-life as well as a cautionary tale about corporate desires to get their hands on public land. More than anything, however, it’s a film that explores people just wanting to relax, to have fun, and the place they love that affords them that opportunity. There isn’t much to the film, really, and that’s fine. It gets in, finds what it wants to do in order to illuminate its subject, and moves on. I liked it alright.
