North Korea Movies

The action takes place against the backdrop of the Korean War. An anti-American film about the tragic fate of the Korean priest Choi Hak-shin, whose...

North Korean animation.

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

North Korea Animation that teaches the importance of learning Geometry.

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 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...

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

A north-korean documentary exposing the truth about the DPRK deserter, Shin Dong-Hyuk

This documentary features about 20 minutes of footage of and from North Korea's aging rolling stock - steam trains being used quite in earnest rather...

A famous singer and her engineer-scientist husband move into a Korean apartment. Soon, the singer becomes jealous of the intimacy in their...

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

A film by Kang Jung-soo.

This is a film based on the revolutionary drama "An Jung Gun shoots Ito Hirobumi", an immortal classic created by president Kim Il Sung during his...

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

A Japanese florist creates his masterpiece: the red begonia hybrids will represent the Juche ideology and stand as a symbol of love, justice and...

Even before the war, a young man named Man-cheol had left his mother and brother behind to study in Seoul. His teacher, Lee, sends him to North Korea...