The feature which will be released internationally in January next year illustrates that North Koreans are living life like puppets under the Kim Jong Un regime,
It has acquired the best human rights movie award at the Galway International Film Festival in Ireland, which closed on Sunday. It is "The Wall" directed by David Kinsella from Northern Island.
According to the mainstream media in Korea, the movie blows whistle against problems with politics that suppresses individuals rights, by comparatively presenting the life of a female poet who defects from North Korea with the life of a boy living in Belfast, Northern Island when it was in intense sectarian conflict.
The movies production process is similar to that of the documentary movie Under the Sun" by director Vitaly Mansky, which was released in Korea this year.
While filming daily living of an 8-year-old girl after winning approval from the North Korean authority, Mansky discovered that all of the daily routines were fabricated, and decided to reveal the situation behind it.
The director David Kinsella wanted to make a real a documentary, but the government in North Korea brought in over 1000 extras to make Kinsella produce what they wanted: propaganda.
Kinsella had to change his strategy. Under pressure from the North Korean censor, he filmed in such a way that animation could be overlaid onto the images when he returned to Norway - and used to tell the real story.
Understanding that in North Korea all foreigners are spies and evil, David Kinsella realised that he had also been told this as a boy growing up in Northern Ireland - and so he made a comparison between his own childhood in Belfast, and his North Korean adventure movie.
Korean Program speaks to Director David Kinsella.
