Filmed over the course of 4 years in an unknown corner of Laos, SouthEast Asia, Today is Better Than Two Tomorrows tells the simple story of friendship between two  boys, Leh and Bo, who leave home at age eleven to become novice monks. Gently  unfolding like a Buddhist fable, this intimate and meditative film takes us on a journey down the Mekong into a world caught between Eastern wishlessness and  Western dreams.

Documentary following a team of football mad teenagers from Laos, the most  heavily bombed country on earth, as they travel to The Gothia Youth World Cup 2010 in Sweden. This adventure fulfils the boys dream to fly on a plane and get their first  ever glimpse of the sea. No one knew the tragedy that would unfold making the trip  even more poignant and meaningful. This film documents their journey on and off the  pitch in Sweden as they win over hearts and minds and deal with being the first Laos  football team ever to play outside of Asia.

Using biographical text, animation, old photos, home videos, and narrated poetry this visually rich film meditates on the theme of reconnecting to one's past and trying to decipher its impact on the present. In 1978, Toronto-poet Souvankham Thammavongsa’s parents lived in a Lao refugee camp in Thailand, where she was born. Her father kept a scrapbook filled with doodles, addresses, postage stamps, maps and measurements. He threw this scrapbook out one day and when he did, she took it and found this…