It takes to join the elite brigade. On aljazeera. Hello and welcome to rewind this week where rewinding to 2011 and an episode of want to one atheist which had secured unique access to north koreas elite Screen Academy a school where young actors were trained in how best to extol the virtues of the countrys then dear leader kim jong il here is north korea cinema of dreams. And one of the reason to go there was no. Im not in the film. You know. What he means. I was using only. Its a clear summer day on the banks of the tate and river in pyongyang north korea. These Young Students from the countrys elite film academy are attending an outdoor lecture. You were. Given this. Is consistent. With. Filming this encounter a single session lasting just a few hours has taken us an entire year to arrange. It was in 2008 when we 1st asked for permission to make a documentary about north koreas aspiring film workers as they call here months of negotiations followed but the answer was always the same. The Pyongyang University of cinematic and dramatic arts was closed for renovations but then in mid 2009 we received word that we could meet the students outside the campus. In your new movie there. You go all your money money in the book there was another house and then when you think he didnt want to go. To the beach as men do to do the top. Of that in to go to sochi when you. Hear that you know were. Going on. With things going on here which. I dont feel young young. Young it is a little bit of a. Toyota sort of a tall male you know what its all i was. Talking to that you would get. And then that. Will tell us our. Telling. All. Of us. Would you not i want to just how about those. Models ive been. Losing young ones that im saying they. Should be doing of this really isnt all of it. So. Its a tiny window into a closed off world but that or allowed to film on this visit. It would be more than 6 months before we see you in a bomb and you had me again. Were allowed to return to north korea in june 2010. But our request to film inside the university has again been turned down. Instead were given permission to go on an outing with an bomb in you and me you mean youre. Really on your own dont. Really understand when you get something would you not guess or who knew what when i guess or you. Could do some years old in. Video answer. And that will have to show that isnt municipal yet as at and t. Bones has someone. In companion involved on his whip or yours or yeah that could i mean it would mean that he. Is not. What does a muscle cell thats one in the middle do you know how to. Read and when you need and you dont need to do. More do you why dont you go. This is perhaps one of the most unusual museums in the world. A shrine to the man North Koreans revere as a genius of cinema theatre and the circus the dear leader kim jong il. We follow the students on their tour. But afterwards our guides inform us that weve committed a grave error and ask us to delete the bulk of off. This is because the North Koreans have a strict rule for filming and photography as a mark of respect all portraits of their leader kim jong il and all his words of wisdom must be filmed like this in their entirety with no Camera Movement and no parts of the image cut off its a tall order photographs of the dear leader line the museum walls its hard to move the camera without breaking the golden rule it feels like a wasted trip but afterwards a surprise. Just as were about to interview. I dont expect a visitor arrives. There are several sectors and im. Told will use a Credit History to keep me. Content. For an actor. With the difference between the picture and the. Cup and youve got to talking. About. 100 cricket if you. Morning. I wish there was another. Not i tunes on to go on that i tunes on and listen in my new console. Space and were going to. Talk you 10 doing in those 2 things going on in. It 6 months later and freezing when we next return. Outside the country the world is alleged as north and south korea trade barbs over the recent shelling of your island. Here in pyongyang the theres hardly a mention of the incident. People are concerned no one is saying so. Life goes on as usual. 2 years of negotiations have finally paid off. The university at last. With the 1st foreign crew ever allowed to film here. For nearly 6 decades this institution has existed for one purpose. To train film workers for the states Propaganda Machine you and me and im now in their 3rd year. By applying a very slow so who will get better i will spot i will knew someone changes in just one word. Turned. From time to get it on took hold and pull you in your own mr to middle some summing up to put over the new. We dont know that i can do it on dickinson and. No way is up your own in england ugliest another to get songs on an uber. That atos a financial that i sleep on the side out of chips of cotton and go younger and about till today you know why your fellow turns on you turn to go to the now and then you can whistle to students close the d. S. P. There regularly here. Theres no denying his influence is everywhere oh. Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa the old. Dog. The old age old old dog oh you. Know what the i. A. E. A. The all. The year. Old. Boy ill do. You choose the hole the little boat out of the home but im going to do something to get her to the stuff to go dig. Up dirt and a good the earth the world me a merry. The world. Com. Lolo or me a. Bomb. All of. The old shall be in the. And the irradiated early. Early early early early a. Day. Oh. Late afternoon and theres a dance class your means being working on another film project and havent practiced in months he struggles to keep up. Early. All the. Time doesnt time out on the sun from moment that this isnt he had taken to come and sit and look how it got me wondering on the front end on a single any kid who needs to. If the end of a long day at school time to head home. In north Korea Housing is free and allocated by the state you had me lives on this street in one of the newest and smartest apartment blocks in pyongyang. Being given permission to visit her home. So you dont have any. Physically. Talk doesnt make. Their. Point was all that. Was thought. This is all the kids. Look to you. For. Its clear she leads a privileged life. This apartment is a reflection of the Family Status in north korean society. I was even though they were little you need or always teeters who called. Me. On his whole clouds over the terro. Zingo in florence or. Over those. Years old. You mustnt. Have me. Honey our. Lives. Pongo. Out you want to go. No because im going to as a hotbed of help those who think god causes him to speak. You. Really to. Be. Here. Yet. You ringback. Made a week bomb and you and me start work on a new project. That erector park when young is an exacting taskmaster. But. Its a simple scene extolling the virtues of the countrys health care system. But here in north korea even comedies serve a higher purpose often. Some choosing between a new song and something new known. Only song but one can determine. Its bitingly cold the next day minus 6 degrees celsius in the sun. On set its also freezing most of the crew are in thick winter clothing but for obama and you and me and their fellow actors theres no such luxury. Theyre dressed for their parts cold but ready to start. But then a power outage one of several during our time here. They fumble in the dark for a while. And then its business as usual. Which. Continues working despite the blackouts. Until you can. Use it when you get them. On set the actors run through the scene. You and me takes the opportunity to figure out a new crop. After an hour in the dark theyre about to give up and call it a day. When the power comes back on. Through osmosis. One young get straight back to work. Oh. My. God theres. Another power outage. In the day on that watching the young youll be talking to or you can buy from the wanted you or you can find one of our young men are men part of the very interesting point where. This. We just spent a week with some of the countrys most privileged young people. Theyve shown us a tiny slice of their lives but were acutely aware that theres much more weve not seen. He always has i would ask you to. Do this to me to sort of you dont care. If you look at quitting. Work if youre going. To get overtime because this has to this is one time. Theres a target in the pro. History to tell you. Im going so. You dont tell me that you. Can do to me to be an artist. Its a message weve heard many times throughout the week. A message theyre trained to convey to their countrymen. That they believe they exist in a perfect world. A place that really is the stuff of dreams the are the. Run was. The. Its all when i was growing up in the ninetys in north korea thats when there was koreas economy was collapsing and there were stop providing the food and the pop and rationed to us so people had to find their ways to survive which means in gauging in black market that through brown market the people was able to get in the smuggled a black d. V. D. From china so i was you know i was are so lucky to be able to access disaster information and i remember for the 1st time watching a movie take cannick and as a younger watching titanic it would is a complete shock that i just couldnt believe why anyone in this wording and make a movie out of such a shame for a story in school idea in there learn about romney and juliet everything there are learned in garment of was being all revolutionary and dying for the regime and suddenly you you see young movie made the arab by this Chamber Story and at the end of men die for the woman and i never seen anything like that and thats when i started to really fear that maybe enter the outside the world is not the monstrous and scary place and also maybe in our paris humanity that a human being and maybe thats freedom. Watching gone. And a made films was sold as boring and it was so in that it didnt connect to reading my human feelings. Even though you know i i wasnt growing up you know courage or where the real worship laugh like in the west but still love is such a human nature when i was started listening dislike of foreign d. V. D. s and movies and songs everything those songs were all about human struggle as human feelings love and something that humans barely experience but the things that made by the government in north korea it wasnt really a very relevant to how i felt as a human being so all was you know i really tasted his like for information i couldnt really connect to it to stay properly and the films of course i can say this because if i did i was going to be executed and 3 generations of my family was going to be wiped out. 25 millions of North Koreans are trapped in this her making them and only a few maybe i am one of those few people were so lucky to be able to you know stay in business and live in this freedom so i am working with a lot of groups in south korea and in america to get information theres also the information that theyre liberal in my mind so riyadh getting misinformation smuggle it through china to north korea and this information our it is actually are just a hidden revolution. The biggest thing with north korea is that on tear that this hour so that information came in the read you now know all they really are oppressed. And imagine that you feel you dont know you are oppressed that you dont know youre a slave hard you fight to be free and this information theyre going into north korea are telling North Koreans that they are oppressed and theyre in slaves and they can be free someday too so this information i believe is the only hope that will change north korea every pick my people. Rewind returns with a new series that can bring your people back to life im sorry im brand new updates on the best of aljazeera documentaries there has been a number of reforms put in price since the program was filmed rewind begins with mohammed at the time when i was in libya i was the global. Like and the other student i was very fortunate to be awarded another scholarship rewind on aljazeera to join the listening post as we turned the cameras on the media the states misleads the public the state media reflects the same thing has caught a child on how they report on the stories that matter amongst the soon as the sun goes down. Russia is a very challenging place to work as a journalist youre always pushing the boundaries of the center of moscow in congo and love we are travelling the extra mile where are the media dont go we go there and we give them a chance to tell their story. Britains Prime Minister bars johnson has admitted to hospital 10 days after he was diagnosed with corona virus. I want to reassure you that if we remain resolute then we want to overcome it and rallying her people Queen Elizabeth makes a rare address to the nation as the u. K. Fights to control the pandemic