Solaris Pictures presents
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CAMP
14: TOTAL CONTROL ZONE
104 min / Germany,
North Korea / 2012
Korean, English
with English subtitles
Dir: Marc Wiese
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Synopsis
Born inside a North
Korean prison camp as the child of political prisoners, Shin Dong-hyuk was
raised in a world where all he knew was punishment, torture and abuse beyond
imagination. After more than two decades of imprisonment, Shin escaped the
camp in 2005 - but life on the outside proved to have its own challenges. A
powerful story of survival and an evocative character study, showing the
feelings of guilt, anger, remorse and complicity that are shared between both
abused and abusers.
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Festivals & Awards
DocPoint, Helsinki,
Finland
DocAviv, Tel Aviv,
Israel
Amsterdam
International Documentary Film Festival, 2012
Toronto
International Film Festival, 2012
Best Film - Human
Rights Festival, Geneva
Stronger Than
Fiction Documentary Film Festival, Canberra, Australia, 2013
Best Film - Eurodok
Oslo
Best Political Film
- IFF Bukarest
Nestor Almendros
Award - Human Rights Watch FF, New York
Golden Butterfly
& Student's Choice Award - Movies that Matter Festival, Amsterdam, 2013
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Directors’ Statement
“One of the things
that shocked me in making this film was something just simple and small, yet
“a metaphor for our modern times.” One day, I simply clicked on Google Earth,
scrolled around North Korea, and immediately I found not only a city near the
camp, but the camp itself.
I could see it! And
I checked other camps. They are huge with 20,000 or 40,000 people in them.
You can really see it, with an absolute regular personal computer. And I was
sitting and thinking, How cynical is that? How perverted in a way?... Just
imagine in the Second World War if you could see, live, the concentration
camps? That’s the reality today.”
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Directors’ Bio
Marc
Wiese is a German documentary Filmmaker who is best known for his documentary
Camp 14: Total Control Zone about
Shin Dong-hyuk who was born and raised in a North Korean prison. He received
an award from the Biarritz International Festival of Audiovisual Programming
in 2009 for his television documentary Kanun:
The Law Of Honour.
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Links
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Seating
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40, Theosophy Hall, 1st
Cross Lane, New Marine Lines, Mumbai 400020
Ph: 022 2203 5993
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CAMP 14: TOTAL CONTROL ZONE
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