North Korea Movies

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

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...

Korean people couldn’t go to school before liberation. President Kim Il Sung shed a bright light to our people with liberation. Heroes of this...

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

Ginseng is also known as the «root of life». And the best ginseng the kaonsky koryo-insam ginseng – grows in the area of the city...

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

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

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

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...

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

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 late-Soviet popular science film that recounts one of the natural wonders of the DPRK through myths and legends.

Experimental short by Yoon Kyeong Yang.

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