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.
About the film
Details
- Running time
- 30 min.
- Country, year
- Finland, 2020
- Genre
- Documentary
- Language
- Korean, English
- Subtitles
- Lithuanian, English
- Age rating
- N-16
Credits
- Director
- Maija Blåfield
- Screenplay
- Maija Blåfield
- Producers
- Maija Blåfield
- Cinematography
- Maija Blåfield
- Music
- Tuomo Puranen
Sponsors and partners
- Festival cinema club partner
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Director
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.
