North Korea Movies

A film by Kang Jung-soo.

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

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

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

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.

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

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,...

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...

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 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...

Two Korean children plant a tree on a hill and wait for it to bloom.

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...

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....

Experimental short by Yoon Kyeong Yang.

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

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

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