North Korea Movies

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

Jong A is a girl of 18, at the age of being much beloved by her parents. But she decides to come to and look after Un Jong’s family who are...

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...

​The 49th Hexagram explores the construction of cultural memory and political narrative surrounding the history of the Korean peninsula....

Having already added to the tensions between North Korea and Japan, a university professor finds that her views are considered even more dangerous...

Two Korean states, Goguryeo and Ranran, are on the brink of war. While the king of Goguryeo tries to keep peace at all costs, King Ranrana plans to...

Musical film based on the traditional story of the same name.

Best seen as a dramatized history lesson, 5 Guerilla Brothers features pivotal events in the creation of North Korea. This includes the shift from...

Forty years after her father's return from North Korea a Japanese university professor is subject to harassment for advancing his views on this...

The action takes place against the backdrop of the Korean War. An anti-American film about the tragic fate of the Korean priest Choi Hak-shin, whose...

A film about a bulldozer driver who worked hard in reorganizing and developing the land in Hwanghae-namdo to make up for his father's wrongdoings...

The movie tells the story of the first three days of the Korean war

North Korean animation.

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...