The Fantastic (2020)

directed by Maija Blåfield

Production: Maija Blåfield /Häivekuva Oy (Finland)

Documentary Short (30 mins)

The Fantastic is a film about imagination and encountering the unknown. North Korean exiles describe their experiences of watching forbidden foreign films. What did they imagine the world outside to be like on the basis of smuggled fiction films?

The Fantastic isn't a film about North Korea. The film reverses the set-up where westerners are peeping in on the everyday life of the closed-off state. In this film, it is the North Koreans who direct their curiosity at the outside world.

SELECTED FESTIVALS & AWARDS

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DocPoint Helsinki 2020

Tampere Film Festival 2020 - Double Prize Winner

Visions Du Reel 2020

HotDocs 2020

Krakow Film Festival 2020

DOKer Moscow International Documentary Film Festival 2020 - Best Short Documentary

MakeDox 2020 - Sliced Onion Jury Award

Shorts Mexico 2020

Nordisk Panorama 2020

Love & Anarchy Helsinki International Film Festival 2020