Madeleine Gavin’s thriller-documentary chronicles the attempt by one family to escape the starvation regime of North Korea. Told in an intense style, without any staged scenes or recreations, it ...

North Korea is an earthly paradise – at least, that’s the fiction its people are fed from birth by their dictatorial government. The reality is far, far grimmer, almost unimaginably so. Just how ...

Madeleine Gavin's North Korean exposé tracks two riveting and dangerous attempts at defection. In the eye-opening “Beyond Utopia” (November 3, Roadside Attractions), from editor-turned-director ...

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