Beyond Utopia is a 2023 American documentary film directed by Madeleine Gavin. Debuted at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, the documentary largely centers around Pastor Seungeun Kim, a South Korean human rights activist and director of the Caleb Mission, which has rescued over 1,000 North Korean defectors since 2000.

2024年1月9日 · In an unforgettable documentary, follow families on a treacherous journey to defect from their homeland of North Korea, as the threat of severe punishment and possible …

2023年11月3日 · Enter documentarian Madeleine Gavin’s urgent dispatch “Beyond Utopia,” a reminder that people’s lives there are continuously at risk. It puts us right in the heart of a perilous attempt in 2019...

2023年1月23日 · For director Madeleine Gavin, “Beyond Utopia” is an opportunity to change the conversation around the repressive regime by moving the focus from its brutal leader Kim …

2023年12月5日 · That’s when Beyond Utopia, Gavin’s stunning Sundance-winning documentary, which not only features much of the shocking footage she found online but also follows the harrowing escapes of other...

Beyond Utopia: Directed by Madeleine Gavin. With Hyeonseo Lee, Sung-eun Kim, So-yeon Lee, Sue Mi Terry. The story of several families as they attempt to escape oppression in North Korea, revealing a world most of us have never seen.

Featuring real escape footage, this captivating, eye-opening documentary follows a family as they attempt to flee North Korea, one of the most oppressive places on Earth.

2023年10月31日 · Gavin joins Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast to discuss her film, revealing how she was able to document one family’s desperate attempt to flee – two young kids, their parents …

2024年1月5日 · The harrowing, riveting documentary Beyond Utopia, captures what life is like for refugees after escaping North Korea. What happens to the family you left behind?

2024年1月17日 · Madeleine Gavin’s Beyond Utopia charts two attempts at defection from North Korea and the underground network that provides vital help. Beyond Utopia was intended to …