Win! Two tickets to North Korean film screening this Sunday

Beijing-based Koryo Tours is the world’s leading travel specialist to North Korea. The company has been running trips to the Hermit Kingdom since 1993, and takes about 3,000 Western tourists a year, which is more than half the annual average. But Koryo is more than a travel company, with other projects including innovative time-lapse photography, and three award-winning documentaries made in North Korea, all of which were shown to critical acclaim on the BBC.

Photos courtesy of Koryo Tours

This Sunday December 7, Koryo Tours will be hosting its Winter Party at BC Moma, with drinks and food from 4pm, and an exclusive screening of Comrade Kim Goes Flying starting at 5pm. Co-directed by Nick Bonner – Koryo’s founder who has been traveling to the DPRK since 1993 – Comrade Kim Goes Flying is North Korea’s first Girl Power rom-com, as well as the first ever UK-DPRK co-production. The film has been screened at over 40 film festivals, including Pyongyang, Busan, Rotterdam and Toronto, but is rarely shown in Beijing. 

Variety called it: “A candy-hued throwback to a chirpy Technicolor time when pluck wins out and ‘postmodern’ wasn’t yet invented” and “Cheerfully smashing perceptions of North Korea as a shuttered nation”. And while this Sunday’s event is now full, and closed to the public, That’s Beijing has secured two pairs of tickets to this exclusive screening. Simply email your name to bjeditor@urbanatomy.com before noon on Friday December 5. Winners will be notified by email and can pick up their tickets at the event itself.