New Baltic Cinema

The Fantastic

30 min. | Documentary | N-16

The Fantastic is a film about 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 foreign fiction films.

Maija Blåfield

Maija Blåfield

Maija Blåfield is a filmmaker and artist from Helsinki, Finland, who moves between documentary film and contemporary art. Her films have been screened at festivals like Hot Docs and Visions du Réel and awarded at numerous festivals.
Languages
Korean, English
Subtitles
Lithuanian, English
Produced
2020: Finland

Film information

Director
Maija Blåfield
Producers
Maija Blåfield
Screenplay
Maija Blåfield
Music
Tuomo Puranen
Cinematography
Maija Blåfield
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