BBC announces Storyville slate for Winter 2024, including escapes from North Korea, state surveillance and Nazi hunters

BBC Four is to air five documentaries from around the world under the BBC’s Storyville brand.

Revenge: Our Dad the Nazi Killer is written and directed by Danny Ben-Moshe, and concerns Nazi hunter groups established by Jewish vigilantes in post-war Australia. The film follows three brothers as they try and see if their dad and uncle, both of whom survived the Holocaust, were involved.

Also on the slate is Beyond Utopia: Escape from North Korea, centring around the people willing to risk everything, including their lives, to flee Kim Jong-un’s regime. The documentary features mothers separated from their children, treks across rivers and mountains, and brokers able to use their position to exploit the people they’re meant to be helping. The film is directed and edited by Madeleine Gavin.

Content warning: discussion of deepfake porn

A woman's face and bare shoulder is visible, seemingly in the middle of sexual intercourse, on a screen reflected in a large, blue eye — *Another Body* explores deepfake porn, through the lens of those it has affected (credit: BBC/*Another Body*)

Meanwhile, Sophie Compton and Reuben Hamlyn write, direct and produce Another Body, which focuses on the insidious world of deepfake porn. Taylor, a 22-year-old student, finds that her likeness has been edited into hardcore pornography. When the police prove more interested in victim blaming than helping, Taylor takes matters into her own hands. She finds that nine other women have had the same thing happen to them, all at the hands of the same man. Mike, or as he is known online, ‘Krelish’, used to be friends with the women, and is now gaining a worrying amount of traction online for his deepfakes.

Eternal Memory explores a married couple whose love is both tested and affirmed as one cares for the other, who eight years ago was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Augusto Góngora is one of Chile’s best known television journalists, who publicised the misdeeds of former dictator Pinochet. As his memory fades, doting wife Paulina Urrutia, an actress and former Minister of Culture and Arts, continues to look after him. The film is directed and produced by Maite Alberdi.

Finally, Jialing Zhang directs Total Trust remotely from America, using anonymous film crews in China to follow people struggling from the apparatus and side effects of CCP surveillance. A woman struggles to free her husband, a human rights lawyer, from prison. A man is unable to work or take his son to school because of the extent of state surveillance. Meanwhile, journalist Sophie Xueqin Huang was key in bringing the #MeToo movement to China, and is constantly in fear of being arrested.

Revenge: Our Dad the Nazi Killer will air on BBC Four and be available on iPlayer from 10.00pm on 23 January. The other documentaries will also be broadcast in early 2024.