North Korea Movies

A film adaptation of a revolutionary play created in the 1930s by a group of partisans led by Kim Il-sung. Subject: the struggle of Korean peasants...

Billed as a North Korean "Titanic". On August 15, 1945, Japanese Imperialists were defeated and there echoed in Japan, too, shouts of victory of...

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

Pyongyang, DPRK: Two ex-child gymnasts find themselves working together as directors in charge of the production of "mass games" (aka mass...

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

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...

A north-korean documentary exposing the truth about the DPRK deserter, Shin Dong-Hyuk

Based on a classic historical novella, the story follows three patriotic friends during the Joseon era who uphold loyalty and brotherhood to the very...

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...

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

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...

A teacher visits her old students who became soldiers and finds out one of them was wounded to save other soldiers while working on the construction...

North Korea’s main state-run television channel aired a short film meant to discourage video game addiction and promote science and technology....

"A Forest is Swaying" is the story of a former soldier (Pak Sŏng-ryong) who struggles to plant a pine forest and raise and orphaned child in an...

The concert film, which includes performances by amateur performers, as well as famous artists from North Korea, includes folk songs and dances.

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

North Korean animation.

A young plumber reunite with his girlfriend from the years in the army. His sister that he is a businessman. To make him more interesting and...