North Korea Movies

North Korean animation.

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

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

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...

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...

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

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 film by Kang Jung-soo.

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

Zhang Peili's video installation series 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).

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

North Korea Animation that teaches the importance of learning Geometry.

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

A romantic comedy socialist reality about a soldier who finds his love while on vacation

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

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...