Film Screening and Panel: Beyond Utopia

Join us for a special screening presented by the Asia Society and the Council of Foreign Relations of Beyond Utopia. This acclaimed documentary unfolds like a real-time geopolitical thriller as it follows two families attempting to defect from the most oppressive country on Earth: North Korea.

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Beyond Utopia Director and Editor Madeleine Gavin and producer and North Korea expert Dr. Sue Mi Terry. They will also be joined by Pastor Kim, whose underground network is featured in the film, and North Korean defector and activist Soyeon Lee. The panel will be moderated by Barbara Demick, author of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea.