Saturday, November 07 5:30pm
Columbia University (Davis Auditorium)
500 West 120th Street. Rm 412. New York, NY 10027
The film premiered in 2012 at the Toronto International Film Festival and at the Busan International Film Festival becoming the first North Korean film shown to a South Korean public audience. It is a Belgian/UK/North Korean co-production and is North Korea’s first film made purely for entertainment and their first girl power movie!
It’s about Comrade Kim Yong Mi who is a 28 year-old coal miner. She lives with her father and grandmother in a small village in the North Korean countryside. When she was young her Mother supported her dream to become an acrobat but when her mother died, her father wanted her to concentrate on her work in the coalmine and forget her childish dreams of flying. However, her love for acrobats never goes away and when she travels to Pyongyang to work for a year at the Construction Site the first thing she visits is the circus.
Q&A with Director Nicholas Bonner!
Free admission. RSVP at: https://www.eventbrite.com/