Korea-Sponsored “International Film Festival for Human Rights in North” Flailed (Date: 11/10/2017 | Source: KCNA.kp)
Pyongyang, November 10 (KCNA) — A spokesman of the Consultative Council for National Reconciliation in a statement Friday hit out at the south Korean puppet forces for staging the farce of “international film festival for human rights in the north” in Seoul.
Those who flocked to the festival were without exception pseudo-moviepersons from south Korea and the West who act as a shock brigade in denying the reality of the DPRK, at the instigation of the U.S. and with the financial support from it, the statement said, and went on:
The puppet forces even let “defectors from the north” take part in the festival, fanning up the atmosphere of confrontation with the fellow countrymen in the north.
Their “human rights” racket is an outright challenge and a serious politically-motivated provocation to the dignity and the social system in the DPRK.
This treachery of pushing the confrontation with the fellow countrymen to the extremes under the backstage manipulation of the U.S. is absolutely intolerable.
What should not be overlooked is that the rubbish-like films justifying the hideous crimes against humanity such as the illegal abduction of DPRK citizens were openly screened in the center of Seoul at the tacit connivance of the present puppet authorities allegedly speaking for “candlelight demonstrators”.
The confrontation burlesque dubbed “international film festival for human rights in the north” which Lee Myung Bak and Park Geun Hye group of traitors used to hold has been carried forward. This clearly proves that the group of past conservatives and the present ruling authorities are all the same group of traitors and criminals inciting confrontation with the fellow countrymen.
The puppet authorities do not hesitate to hold the racket for “human rights” campaign to do harm to the DPRK, at the end of getting zealous in their moves to provoke a nuclear war against the north and to put sanctions on it while following the U.S. as a shaggy dog.
The army and people of the DPRK will never tolerate the puppet authorities and the organizations hatching plots against the DPRK and kicking up the racket over “human rights” in the north as they slander and hurt the dignity and social system in the DPRK, which represent the lifeline of its army and people.
The puppet authorities should not run amuck, bearing in mind that their acts of following in the footsteps of the group of conservatives and traitors being pursuant to the U.S. will be rejected by the people and face a bitter final ruin.
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The 7th North Korean Human Rights International Film Festival was organized by the Network for North Korean Democracy and Human Rights in Seoul, South Korea. The annual festival featured a total of 15 films representing directors from seven different nations.
Headliners included Crossing Heaven’s Border, The Propaganda Game and The Lovers and the Despot.
Crossing Heaven’s Border: In the past decade, up to 100,000 defectors have crossed the waters of the Tumen and Yalu Rivers into northeast China to escape from North Korea, the world’s last closed Communist state. Crossing Heaven’s Border reveals the plight of North Korean defectors from the point of view of intrepid South Korean journalists who risk their lives filming undercover for ten months to capture the haunting stories first-hand.
The film is only 57 minutes and is available free through PBS:
The Propaganda Game: This video diary-style documentary follows filmmaker Álvaro Longoria as he visits North Korea and examines the country’s propaganda machine.
The Lovers and the Despot: A famous director and actress are kidnapped by movie-obsessed dictator Kim Jong-il. Forced to play along with a bizarre filmmaking project, they get a second chance at love but only one chance at escape.
Others films shown included A North Korean Diary by Austrian director Luca Paccio, Liberation Day by Norwegian filmmaker Morten Traavik and Latvian director Ugis Olte, and Soyagok, which means serenade in English, of South Korea’s MBC TV.