The Propaganda Game: Life In North Korea Portrayed (Documentary)

The Propaganda Game is an intimate look inside the world’s most locked down and satirised nation, serving as an interesting portrait of the way in which North Korea wishes to be viewed.

Directed by a man wishing to unravel their myths, Alvaro Longoria, after many failed attempts to gain access to the country, Longoria befriends North Korea’s only foreign diplomat, Alejandro Cao de Benos – a man of Spanish descent, who pulls some strings to grant Longoria permission to film a documentary inside the hermit country. Although Longoria is theoretically allowed to interview anyone while there, his entire itinerary is predetermined, and he is unable to leave his guides or Cao de Benos for the duration of the trip.

What follows is an ultra-skewed portrait of North Korea, a free exploration of the country without any freedom, which sees Alvaro thrust into a number of eerily unrealistic situations as he attempts to draw the line between fact and fiction and prove that we all move pieces in this Propaganda Game.