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Tag: North Korea

North Korean Partisan In South Korea (Nambugun)

Chung Ji-young
1990

Jeremy Clarke - 04-11-2019

Gritty account of the Korean War based on the memoirs of a North Korean soldier shows at the 2023 London East Asia Film Festival as part of a strand showcasing director Chung Ji-Young. [Read More...]

House Of Hummingbird (Beol-Sae)

Kim Bora
2018

Jeremy Clarke - 08-10-2019

A teenage girl in Seoul, Korea, 1994, comes to terms with life on a number of levels - personal, family, social, political  – from the BFI London Film Festival and the London East Asia Film Festival (LEAFF) [Read More...]

The Journals Of Musan (Musanilgi)

Park Jung-bum
2010

Jeremy Clarke - 12-11-2018

Boy from the North Country. North Korean defector living in South Korea struggles to survive in the black economy, with scant help from those around him or people at the church he attends – from the London Korean Film Festival (LKFF), on now [Read More...]

Liberation Day

Uģis Olte/ Morten Traavik
2017

Victor Fraga - 06-08-2017

As weird as it gets: documentary about the highly controversial avant-garde band Laibach's concert in extremely secretive North Korea offers unique insight into an extremely peculiar and explosive event - from DokuFest [Read More...]