North Korea Movies

A film by Kang Jung-soo.

The film was produced by the Korean April 25 Film Studio and is a sequel to 2022’s One Day and One Night about an attempt to kill North Korean...

Fate threw the young architect Won Il with his eldest son to South Korea. In the north, in Kesson, his wife remained with two small children. After...

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).

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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 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...

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

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