2025 | Mainland China, Germany | Experimental

Hostile Landscapes

  • Chinese, Korean, Japanese, English captions available Chinese, English 59 mins
  • Director | Zhang Hanwen
  • Writer | -
  • Producer | -

STATUS: In Distribution

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In October of 2021, North Korean defector JU Hyeongeon escaped from prison in China’s Jilin Province. After 40 days on the run, JU was wounded by police gunfire and captured near the Fengman Dam. Following the traces of a man who escaped from North Korea across a region straddling the part of China formerly known as Manchuria, this landscape film grapples with an aspect of modern East Asian history that still cannot be easily addressed.

Defection Surveillance Borderlands Resistance Manchuria
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