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...

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 by Kang Jung-soo.

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 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...

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

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

It is a film that promotes the superiority of the socialist system through revolutionary children.

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

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

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...

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

An account of life in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the early 1990s

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...

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

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....

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