Awards

Jury statement: "Under the rigorous manipulation of the DPRK government, director Mansky captures the absurdities within the fabricated perfect image of North Korea. Genuine human emotions can be seen through a child by contrasting the real with the unreal."

"Vitaly Mansky inhabits the hidden frames of propaganda filmmaking to circumvent and unravel the official images North Korea's closed society. His incisive point of view, intimately connected with the childhood vulnerability of his primary subject, echoes beyond the borders of any individual totalitarian state."