The Fantastic

Encountering the unknown and the relationship between imagination and reality. The film is built on interviews with exiled North Koreans, who describe what they imagined the outside world to be like, based on their experiences of watching smuggled western fiction films. Alternating documentary footage and visual effects, the film raises the question of how reality is defined and what we wish to believe in. Reversing the set-up where westerners are peeping in on the everyday life of the closed-off state, North Koreans imagine what life in Western countries is like.