Synopsis :
After a dramatic escape from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Polaris, a 17-year-old North Korean refugee, joins a rehabilitation center where she shares her life story with other refugees. Charismatic and talented, Polaris’s moving story draws the attention of those around her — and of the media. She relives memories of her childhood and adolescence in North Korea. As she struggles to adapt to the hyper-modern realities of Seoul, traumatic events from her past resurface to haunt her.

Is she really the young woman she claims to be? In a totalitarian state, she always followed the will of the Party, but in a free society, she must take responsibility for her own choices. Polaris realizes that if she wants to succeed in South Korea, she must first confront herself.

The Northern Star is based on documentary interviews with refugees from North Korea recorded by Czech koreanist Nina Špitálníková in her books "Testimony of Life in the DPRK".

Screenplay: Milada Těšitelová
Directed by: Eléa Gobbe-Mevellec
Co-producers: Vladimír Lhoták / Hausboot
Status: Project in development

Directed by  Eléa Gobbe-Mevellec 

Trained at Gobelins School in Paris, she works as an animator and graphic designer on numerous French productions.
After two short films, she directed her first feature, The Swallows of Kabul, co-directed with Zabou Breitman and adapted from the novel by Yasmina Khadra, presented at Cannes and Annecy and nominated for a Cesar Award.