Camp 14 - Total Control Zone

Camp 14 - Total Control Zone
Germany | 2012 | 106’ | Documentary | Korean with English subtitles
Director: Marc Wiese

This is the story of Shin Dong-Huyk, who was born as a political prisoner in a North-Korean re-education camp. From the age of six, he was subjected to forced labor, hunger, beatings and torture. He thought everybody lived that way. With the help of an older prisoner, he succeeded in escaping at the age of 23 and discovered the "outside world" for the first time. The film relates his incredible story, as well as those of his fellow inmates and prison guards.  

"One of the 20 best documentaries 2012"  - Sound on Sight

"There are some subjects so horrific, so far beyond our understanding that the mind goes numb. Such is the case with Marc Wiese's chilling docu."  - Jay Weissberg, Variety

More screenings at the Goethe-Institut Hongkong:

Grab and Run
22.05.2018  (Tue)   7:30pm
Black Box Studio, Goethe-Institut Hongkong
Director: Roser Corella, Germany, 2017, 82 mins
Free admission, ►Online-registration here
 
There’s a Kyrgyz saying that every good marriage starts with tears. If true, it applies to about half the marriages in Kyrgyzstan, as estimates say that this is how many start with the illegal kidnapping of the bride. A group of men capture a woman on the street and drag her to her new “home”, where preparations for a wedding are underway. Only very few kidnapped brides withstand the humiliating treatment; they also fear that they would not find a husband later because of the stigma. The kidnapping allows the groom to prove his manliness; he also avoids paying the traditional bride price to his chosen one’s parents. This shocking film provides a close-up look at a tradition that proves that women in Kyrgyzstan are still seen as men’s trophies.
 

Non Assistance
23.05.2018  (Wed)    7:30pm
Black Box Studio, Goethe-Institut Hongkong
Director: Frédéric Choffat, Switzerland, 2016, 52 mins
Free admission, ►Online-registration here

Since 2011, thousands of migrants fleeing wars are trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe. While governments are criminalizing migratory fluxes more and more, some women and men are getting organized. Some are chartering boats to save the shipwrecked, while others are hosting them on land or filing criminal complaints against States for having failed to provide assistance to people in danger.