Several years ago, British filmmaker Daniel Gordon and his crew were granted permission to film in North Korea while making the 2002 documentary The Game of Their Lives. That film was about the 1966 North Korean World Cup soccer team. As a follow-up, Gordon tracked the lives of two gymnasts and their families for eight months as they prepared for the Mass Games, one of the most spectacular human performances on the globe. The film is filled with images and moments from daily life in North Korea. Starting in early 2003, the crew shot people at work, at home, in the city and in the country and captured some of what makes North Korea so unique and enigmatic: its own brand of communist ideology, its Juche philosophy and its devotion to the Kims, II Sung and Jung II. A State of Mind provides insight and a rare glimpse - to Western eyes - of life in the closed society that has never been shown before. Unmasking the world′s last remaining hard-line communist state, it is a remarkable, fascinating film.