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Interweaving footage from the director's three visits to North Korea with songs, spectacle, popular cinema and archival footage, the film takes a different look at this enigmatic country typically seen through the distorted lens of jingoistic propaganda and satire. Challenging the meaning of freedom, love and patriotism it tries to understand, on their own terms, the popular imagination of the North Korean people and the political ideology of absolute love which drives the nation towards its uncertain future. Winner of the award for Best Debut Film at the Locarno Festival 2014.
Yoo Soon-mi
Nascida na Coreia do Sul, estudou literatura alemã na Universidade Yonsei e tem mestrado em fotografia pela Massachusetts College of Arts, onde atualmente leciona cinema e vídeo. Seus trabalhos ecoam a vanguarda e ensaios de não ficção, dentre os quais se destaca Pink (2011) e “Afghanistan: The Next Generation”, episódio do longa Far from Afghanistan (2012).
