‘Camp 14 Total Control Zone’ Screening at the 2013 Beirut International Film Festival

Join the Beirut International Film Festival 2013 as it hosts a screening of “Camp 14 Total Control Zone.”

Synopsis:
Shin Dong-Huyk was born on November 19, 1983 as a political prisoner in a North Korean re-education camp. He was a child of two prisoners who had been married by order of the wardens. He spent his entire childhood and youth in Camp 14, a death camp. He knew nothing about the world outside the barbed-wire fences. At the age of 23, with the help of an older prisoner, he managed to escape. For months he traveled through North Korea and China and finally to South Korea, where he encountered a world completely new to him.