Under the Sun

Under the Sun (2015)

October 30th, 20151h 50min

Documentary
72%

Overview

Over the course of one year, this film follows the life of an ordinary Pyongyang family whose daughter was chosen to take part in Day of the Shining Star (Kim Jong-il's birthday) celebration. While North Korean government wanted a propaganda film, the director kept on filming between the scripted scenes. The ritualized explosions of color and joy contrast sharply with pale everyday reality, which is not particularly terrible, but rather quite surreal.


Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!

Trailer

Similar Movies

Land Without Bread

Land Without Bread


Released on: 1933-12-01
Documentary

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...

Railway Station

Railway Station


Released on: 1980-01-01
Documentary

Warsaw's Central Railway Station. 'Someone has fallen asleep, someone's waiting for somebody else. M...

Stalin: Man of Steel

Stalin: Man of Steel


Released on: 2003-01-01
Documentary, History

Emmy Awards nominee for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research: Multi-faceted por...

The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl

The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl


Released on: 1993-09-11
Documentary

This documentary recounts the life and work of one of most famous, and yet reviled, German film dire...

Albania

Albania


Released on: 1945-01-01
Documentary

Made by the highly influential Russian cameraman Roman Karmen, this documentary vividly features Alb...

Reverse

Reverse


Released on: 2025-04-18
Documentary

They came to Donbass from different countries in search of truth. And they stayed on for the sake of...

Life Goes On

Life Goes On


Released on: 2002-10-24
War, Documentary

The absurd and often surrealistic story of the last propaganda film of the Third Reich.

Heroes' War in Snow and Ice

Heroes' War in Snow and Ice


Released on: 1917-09-12
War, Documentary, History

Heroic Struggle in Snow and Ice is a 1917 Austro-Hungarian propaganda newsreel film produced by Sasc...

Ryeohaeng

Ryeohaeng


Released on: 2019-08-08
Documentary

A group of women climbs a summer mountain situated in South Korea. They are refugees who have settle...

Never Again Is Now Global

Never Again Is Now Global


Released on:
Documentary

Holocaust survivors, children of survivors, and grandchildren - as well as German freedom fighters -...

Les Cartoons bannis

Les Cartoons bannis


Released on: 2022-11-29
Documentary

Homes Apart: Korea

Homes Apart: Korea


Released on: 1991-01-02
Documentary

They speak the same language, share a similar culture and once belonged to a single nation. When the...

Years of the Eagle

Years of the Eagle


Released on: 1997-09-11
Documentary

The story of Istituto Luce and it's newsreels, full of visual records of the social and political hi...

Victory in the West

Victory in the West


Released on: 1941-05-07
Documentary

A Nazi propaganda film about the lead up to World War II and Germany's success on the Western Front....

An Inconvenient Border: Where China Meets North Korea

An Inconvenient Border: Where China Meets North Korea


Released on: 2017-09-19
Documentary

Bob Woodruff’s daring 880-mile journey along the China-North Korea border examines the delicate rela...

The Four Elements

The Four Elements


Released on: 1966-01-01
Documentary

An educational film about power sources that’s rendered as a lyrical meditation on heat and vapor, T...

Drømmen om i Morgen

Drømmen om i Morgen


Released on: 1945-12-03
Drama, Documentary

Social democracy propaganda film about future dreams for Denmark in 1960. Although Denmark is free a...

Brink of Disaster!

Brink of Disaster!


Released on: 1972-01-01
History, Documentary, Comedy

A student is held up in the library while a riot rages outside. As SDS protesters head to burn the l...

American Carnage

American Carnage


Released on: 2017-11-27
Documentary

See how alt-right icon Steve Bannon’s years as a documentary filmmaker catapulted him to Breitbart N...

Assassins

Assassins


Released on: 2021-08-12
Documentary, Crime

True crime meets global spy thriller in this gripping account of the assassination of Kim Jong-nam, ...