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.

North Korean propaganda film about orchards that yield bigger crops after Kim Il-sung visits. The fi...

The assassination of Kim Jong-nam occurred on 13 February 2017 when two women attacked him with VX n...

A shocking political exposé, and an intimate ethnographic portrait of Pacific Islanders struggling f...

Who is Kim Yo-jong? In a context of maximum tensions between North Korea and the United States, Pier...
A love affair with collectivist ideologies has lead to ever bigger government and the welfare-warfar...

A propaganda documentary on the post war reconstruction of Miensk, capital of Belarus.

There were two wars in Iraq--a military assault and a media war. The former was well-covered; the la...

A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed...

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

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

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

The love of Kim Jong Il, the former dictator of North Korea, for cinema and his adventures, includin...

In Maija Blåfield’s documentary, eight former North Koreans talk about what it was like to watch ill...

Spin doctors spread misinformation and confusion among American citizens to delay progress on such i...

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

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

Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —cont...

At the beginning of the 70s, Sahia Studio produced a number of social investigations commissioned by...