North Korea Movies

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...

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

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

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...

Experimental short by Yoon Kyeong Yang.

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

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

"Mother's Happiness" is a moving film that introduces viewers to Jin Ho and Kyong Ho, two siblings navigating the life in the vibrant fabric of DPRK...

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...

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...

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.

Zhang Peili's video installation series 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...

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...

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