Discoveries from North Korea World Cinema

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 desirable. For a plumber is nothing to be, right?

Experimental short by Yoon Kyeong Yang.

The daily life of explosive disposal crews and the process of performing their duties, set during the bomb removal project that preceded the land reclamation project in North Korea.

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 the death of his son, Won Il rushes to his homeland, to his relatives, to his family.

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 the city to get married, Min Suk Jo, the team leader of the pasturing unit tries to convince her to stay, as she is much needed there. But trouble soon appears, when the team leader himself is asked if he himself really would be able to send one of his own daughters to the mountain side for pasturing, thus leaving their comfortable life in the city.

"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 area devastated by American bombs in the Fatherland Liberation War (Korean War). A young agricultural expert comes to judge the work Pak has been doing. She finds that it is impossible to have a pine forest in this area, and surmises that he should plant other trees instead. He continues to plant pine trees regardless of her advice.

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

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

A lazy Pig is eating and relaxing all the day while the other farm animals are working all the day

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 plastic culture of the Koreans and the peculiar authenticity of folk melodies.

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

"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 society. It then unfolds delicately, capturing tender moments and tough battles. The film is set against the backdrop of the mother's unwavering loyalty to her nation and family. While the brothers struggle with their dreams in relation to expectations, the film takes us into a world where love for the motherland overlaps with sacrifice and national pride. In this way, the film unfolds with scenes depicting how bonds within families can help individuals grow or remain strong in times of adversity. It emphasises what defines them: a resolute determination to weather storms and solidarity between family members. With each scene, "Mother's Happiness" extols the quiet heroism of mothers, whose undying love for their children and homeland underpins the plot.

During the Korean War, Chinese volunteers and the Korean People's Army supported each other and fought together. They shed blood in the name of friendship between the two peoples and praised the nobility, the spirit of internationalism.

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 of Kaesong, the ancient capital of the state of Koryo (X-IV centuries). Through a story about the history of cultivation and farming of the miraculous medicinal plant, the film lends the viewers some insight about the great cultural traditions, that are sacredly honored by the people of North Korea.

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 film were conferred the diplomas of Kim Il Sung University, the first university in our country after liberation. To repay love and consideration of great peerless men of Mt Paektu, they devote hart even their lives of Korean Liberation War and educa- tion of rising generation.

All is not well in the medieval Kingdom of Koryo (918-1392), a distant precursor of today's Korea, ruled over by a corrupt dynasty in the north. While the Koryo overlords become bloated on a lifestyle of luxury and decadence, a series of farmer’s revolts rock the country, only to be mercilessly quashed. During one such uprising, the parents of a young girl, Somi, are ruthlessly murdered by the brutal government vassal Hyon Ryu Bal. The shock causes Somi to lose her voice, as she flees by boat for her life. She is rescued and taken in by Dosa, a white-haired martial arts master, along with another young boy from Somi's village, Ung Gom, orphaned in the same raid. As Dosa raises the two in his martial arts school, Somi and Ung Gom grow up together like brother and sister, waiting until their day of vengeance arrives.