Assassins (USA, 2020)
On February 13, 2017, Kim Jong-nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong-un, strolled through Kuala Lumpur International Airport only to be...
Call for Papers – Cultural Studies in the Asian Context Fall 2020 Issue on North Korean Culture and Cinema
Submissions are invited for full-length essays on the important but largely understudied topic of “North Korean Culture and Cinema” for the September 2020 issue. The...
To Kill Alice (South Korea, 2017) [SDAFF 2018]
Where is the line between the free speech of a progressive society and the fighting words that could lead to political destabilization? Kim Sang-kyu’s documentary...
Mrs. B., A North Korean Woman (France/South Korea, 2016)
North Korean forced migration has become a hot topic in the Western media. Largely driven by the publication of memoirs by several high-profile North Korean...