North Korea Movies

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...

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...

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...

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

The 2002 FIFA World Cup was the 17th staging of the FIFA World Cup which took place from 31 May to 30 June 2002 in South Korea and Japan. It was the...

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

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

"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...

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

Experimental short by Yoon Kyeong Yang.

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

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 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...

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

Korean people couldn’t go to school before liberation. President Kim Il Sung shed a bright light to our people with liberation. Heroes of this...

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

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...