Beyond Utopia: Screening and Q&A with Sue Mi Terry, Rachel Cohen, and Seohyun Lee

Recorded January 4, 2024
Join us for a screening of the documentary film BEYOND UTOPIA, winner of the Audience Award for US Documentary Features at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. BEYOND UTOPIA is a suspenseful look at the lengths people will go to gain freedom. It follows various individuals as they attempt to flee North Korea, one of the most oppressive places on earth. At the film’s core are a mother desperate to reunite with the child she was forced to leave behind; a family of five - including small children and an elderly grandmother - embarking on a treacherous journey across the Yalu River and into the hostine mountains of China; and a man of God on a mission to help these desperate souls. Gripping, visceral, and urgent, Madeleine Gavin’s film embers the viewers with these family members as they attempt their perilous escape, palpably conveying life-or-death stakes. After the film, stay for a Q&A with Executive Producer Sue Mi Terry and human rights advocate and North Korean defector Seohyun Lee, moderated by policy program officer Chelsie Alexandre.
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[@shelloo9]

This was such a powerful documentary.. I literally cried all the way through 😢😊

[@ibrahimrahim8714]

More events like this 🙏🏽

[@kristinheartknaan]

It would be good and increase the integrity of publicizing the problem, to explain the history of the Korean people before the post WW2 UN division of nations like booty, and the ensuing Korean War not long afterwards, which was perpetrated BY THE US using South Korea as its proxy to try to take over ALL of the Korean Peninsula for the long held purpose of the British-European-American Regime to contain China. The geopolitical history is complex and definitely deserves to be aired along with the current struggle of the North Korean refugees.

[@UpsheetscreekWOapaddle]

I just got off watching GPS on CNN which made me curious about the film. The (condensed version) description off this film had me wanting to learn more about the this harrowing AND enlightening story. The narrator has made a VERY good presentation. I'll leave this as a PRECAUTION off the gathering storm in our own country. Ie, Authoritarian Trump and his FASCIST leaning followers Look up for OUR redemption drawing near Amen 🙏

[@monicaswavel6074]

😭😭🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏💕

[@user-nr3vh4hs5u]

이 영화는 이 시대 지구상에서 살아가는 의식있는 사람들은 모두 봐서, 이 문명시대에 가축처럼 갇혀 사육되고, 고통당하는 북한민들의 해방을 위해 노력해야 합니다.(The film sees all the conscious people living on Earth in this era, and should strive to free North Koreans who are trapped, bred, and suffered like livestock in this civilized era.)

[@monicaswavel6074]

Very true. Praying for the rescue of the North korean people 🙏😭

[@AT-AT-AT-AT]

imagine defending this..

[@quakerninja]

I don't see the movie?

[@m.c.7741]

You have to buy or rent it

[@ibrahimrahim8714]

It’s on Hulu