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
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