Songs From the North

1h 12m

Interweaving footage from the director’s three visits to North Korea with songs, spectacle, popular cinema and archival footage, Songs from the North takes a different look at this enigmatic country typically seen through the distorted lens of jingoistic propaganda and derisive satire. Challenging the meaning of freedom, love, patriotism and ultimately the human condition, it tries to understand, on their own terms, the psychology and popular imaginary of the North Korean people and the political ideology of absolute love which continues to drive the nation towards its uncertain future.

Crew

Soon-Mi Yoo

Director, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography, Producer

Rui Alexandre Santos

Co-Producer

Nuno Henrique

Sound Editor, Sound Mixer

Songs From the North

Crew

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