North Korea Movies

The hero of this film toiled was a lighthouse keeper before Korea's liberation in World War II. He suffered many indignities and mistreatment by the...

Fate threw the young architect Won Il with his eldest son to South Korea. In the north, in Kesson, his wife remained with two small children. After...

Some animals cooperate in gathering food while a greedy pig pays the consequences of his individualism.

A lazy Pig is eating and relaxing all the day while the other farm animals are working all the day

In this courageous and lyrical story about war and love, written by screenwriter Kim Seul Yun and director Min Den Shik, one can feel both the rich...

Zhang Peili's series of video installations reconstructs footage excerpted from older North Korean films, including gestures of argument, smiles, and...

The film weaves its narrative entirely from archive material from the Swiss Military Archives, recorded by “neutral” Swiss who were...

A film about a woman called San Mae, she had volunteered to herd the cattles in the mountains as young. When she is asked by her sister to go back to...

Rampant exaggerations, bureaucracy and formalism amongst officials at a farm in Paekhak village disappear after a new party secretary takes charge,...

Official propaganda about the mass games. Especially weird is the massive “screen” in the back, composed of 15,000 or more individuals...

A North Korean historical television drama based on the real-life war memoirs of Seo Cheol (서철).

A cautionary tale about the importance of not neglecting specifics in conversation. Due to confusion, a respected person received the wrong...

About peasants who did not immediately understand the joy of collective labor. Not only does the film promote collective farming, but it also has an...

Zhang Peili's video installation series reconstructs footage excerpted from older North Korean films, including gestures of argument, smiles, and...

All is not well in the medieval Kingdom of Koryo (918-1392), a distant precursor of today's Korea, ruled over by a corrupt dynasty in the north....

In Classic Sequences, the single-channel work is projected directly onto the main and only screen of the Gwangju Theatre each evening, just before...

The 2002 FIFA World Cup was the 17th staging of the FIFA World Cup which took place from 31 May to 30 June 2002 in South Korea and Japan. It was the...