Liberation Day
Much to the surprise of the whole world, the Slovenian cult band, Laibach, is the first rock group invited to perform in the fortress state of North Korea. Confronting strict ideology and cultural differences, the band struggles to get their songs approved by the censor before they perform before an audience that has never been exposed to alternative music. Meanwhile, propaganda loudspeakers are set up at the border between the two Koreas, and a countdown to war is announced.
Ugis Olte is a Latvian director and editor. He has created numerous original TV formats, music videos, ads, three short fiction films (The Red Spot, KK2678 and King Of The Wild Things), and the documentaries Stuck in Stikine (2007), Double Aliens (2015) and the co-directed Liberation Day (2016).
Morten Traavik is a Norwegian director and artist working across a wide spectrum of artistic genres. Trained as a theater director in Russia and Sweden, the notion of the world as a stage and identity as role play, as well as a characteristically blurred distinction between art, activism and social issues, has never been far away from his works.