North Korea Movies

The manager of a quilt factory retires, leaving the job of running it to a woman. She resolves to rebuild a new factory to meet the vision of the...

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

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...

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

Depicts the tragedy of division through twin sisters who come to live separated in the North and South right after liberation. Kŭmhŭi grows...

A teacher visits her old students who became soldiers and finds out one of them was wounded to save other soldiers while working on the construction...

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 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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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