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In 2007, fifteen-year-old Chaeyoung is diagnosed with anorexia and committed to a mental hospital. Feeling guilty, her mother, Sangok, tries to trace the source of her daughter’s illness but there is no way to know. Ten years later, the mother and daughter begin a conversation. Relying on Chaeyoung’s diary, drawings, and voice-over, the film explores the history of conflict and pain in mother-daughter relationships through three generations: grandmother, mother, and daughter.

Cho Young-sook, who has continued the tradition of women's gukgeuk for 74 years, has two brilliant students. Park Su-bin has worked as a female performer who plays male roles in women's gukgeuk for more than 20 years. Hwang Ji-young was raised as a female gukgeuk actress. They are running a women's gukgeuk production center and are struggling to continue the momentum of women's gukgeuk, which is losing popular interest. However, it is not easy to continue performing women's gukgeuk, and the two are changing their minds more and more. The two, who want to make a big stage with women's gukgeuk even once before Cho Young-sook passes away, prepare for a performance of "Legendary Chunhyangjeon," thinking that it is their last performance. However, it is not easy to perform in the absence of funding. Park Su-bin and Hwang Ji-young, as third-generation women gukgeuk artists, spend their days searching for teachers, recruiting them, and scrambling to raise funds for the performances.

On May 18, 2017, the Busan International Film Festival’s Program Director Kim Jiseok died suddenly and unexpectedly from a heart attack while on a business trip to the Cannes Film Festival. In the face of his unexpected demise, his old friends and colleagues in the film industry recall what tormented him in his last days.

The old musicians play in the shaded corner on the side of a stream under a bridge. Their music tells stories of their lives.

Park Sang Hak's (infamous N. Korean defector) group prepares to launch the balloons that contain leaflets that condemn the Kim Jong Un regime over to North Korea as the border town residents and liberals ready themselves for their most intense clash.

A revealing, impartial, yet sometimes shocking look into the history, traditions and practices of the dying art of Korean shamanism, chronicling the lives of living, practising "hereditary" and "possessed" shamans.

4, April, 2014. Worker's who worked in "SaengTak" are get to the struggle to require adjust of working environment for safely food, and guarantied a Three Right of labors. Then. Worker's tried to record there's own struggle and launch forth to street, However, Law, Capital, unconcern of crowd and avoid of famille are swallow up them.

RED were the supporters of the football club Anyang LG Cheetahs. The Cheetahs topped the K-league in 2000 but suddenly relocated to Seoul in 2003. Having no team to support, RED had no reason to continue its existence. But rather than accepting defeat, the die-hard members of RED began a fierce, nine-year struggle that finally led to the birth of Anyang’s own football club once again. FC Sukhavati is the story of these football otakus and their home city, of their growth, solidarity and victory.

At 4:30 AM, Mom is preparing for a huge meal all by herself. In charge of the eatery at the construction site of the Incheon Airport Terminal 2, Mom easily makes a meal for hundreds of construction workers, but her labor is not easy to watch for her filmmaker son.

During the Japanese colonial period, 22 Korean female workers were forced to work in a spinning mill in Osaka across the sea to support their families. Despite facing discrimination and violence, their testimonies and life-affirming songs of victory have endured.

This film shows that ‘how mass media dominates our daily life’ in a mixed format of drama and documentary. Part 1 is a drama represents the process of a human life from the childhood when the person first encounters with TV to how TV dominates him while growing up. Part 2 is a documentary of a group of people who banned from TV for a month. This experiment makes us think about what TV means to our life.

Behind-the-scenes production on the 1999 South Korean drama-horror 'Memento Mori.'

About three women in search of a home return to South Korea after an absence of more than thirty years. In the 1970s, they left everything behind in order to go to Germany as "guest workers." Although assimilated in their new country, they long for the old one. Now they are able to realize their dream of returning with their German husbands to Dogil Maeul, the German village that has been created for people like them. Situated in a picturesque bay, the village is indeed more German than Germany--there is even whole meal bread and Frankfurter sausages. This is the new-old home to which their sixty something husbands Armin, Willi and Ludwig have come in the hope of spending their remaining years. However, there is still something missing for the three women as they discover it is not so easy to pick up where they left off.

Seong-ho is a musician with an autistic disorder who has an extraordinary talent in music. But he is trapped in the world of video games and television. His mother has chosen the life of his shadow to groom him into a professional musician. Her only wish is to ‘Live an hour longer than Seong-ho.’ She would like to leave Seong-ho to his little brother Geon-gi, but he still considers his brother ‘bothersome and useless’. Two brothers go on a trip to Europe without their mother for the first time. “It’s a practice for when mom isn’t here.” This family’s cacophony is slowly forming a concerto.

Daughter of Mobius shows the struggles of an independent women living in the early 80s - an era when it was much more difficult for women to be independent. The movie follows a 29-year-old single woman - who at the time was the object of social prejudices - through her daily life, showing the sights of Seoul in the early 80s and the life of the woman, in documentary style.

The hotel overlooks the city hall. The city hotel returns the glance. Glances bounce off each other, become directions and points headed towards, together, and outwards all just one frame apart in between the hotel and city hall.

Chandigarh stands as an anomaly amongst the chaotic Indian landscape. Designed by Le Corbusier in 1964 as a utopian vision of what modern independent India could be, his obsession with straight lines and ‘form follows function’ is evident in the urban design of the city. In 2020, the director visits his parents in his hometown of Chandigarh trying to resolve an ongoing disagreement over his life choices. Over this time spent at home where moments of gentle affection seem to be punctuated by a total communication breakdown, the filmmaker starts to suspect that the city might have a more insidious role to play in this unravelling situation. As he spends time within the grid of the house, the larger grid structures around him start becoming apparent. Could it be possible that the design of this city suppresses individuality, which threatens its ideal of order and coherence?

Kim Eun-hee, 26-year-old, face to face with memories she’d rather forget from her 11-year-old self, she begins the match for existing as herself.

A visually impaired woman in her 50s and an 18-year-old girl walk the Camino de Santiago. The older woman, Jae-han, is a masseuse who can only make out the dim outlines of things. She is accompanied by a girl named Da-hee. Jae-han dreams of presenting her own style of flamenco in front of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela after completing the pilgrimage. However, the journey, which began with a vague longing, turns out to be much more difficult than either had expected.

After graduating from Joseon school, ✕✕ enters a South Korean university. Jihoon meets ✕✕’s family and friends, sharing meals, drinks, and songs together. Through these interactions, he naturally grows closer to ○○, △△, and ◇◇, listening to their memories of Joseon school and their lives in Japan. These exchanges erase the space of everyday life and question the sense of mission imposed in its place: For whom is it really when we label those living ordinary lives with ‘identity’?

By chance, two men open their hearts to cats on the street. One man is a poet and traveler, the other man is a CF director. The poet takes pictures of cats on the streets every day. The CF director follows the cats with his video camera and meets people who feed the cats on the street. These two men begin to feed and name the cats they see often. The men get closer to the cats, while they observe, that often, the passersby look at the cats with unfavorable gazes. On a whim, the men decide to make a movie on these street cats.

Jeju authorities felled about 900 cedar trees on Bijarim-ro for a road expansion project. Citizens exposed the project's flawed environmental impact assessment, leading to its suspension. They continued efforts to protect Seongsan, slated for the second airport, and Bijarim-ro. This documentary follows the journeys of five women involved in this movement.

This film introduces Professor MAENG Sunglyul at Woosuk University, the author of UFO Syndrome and a scientist researching into unidentified flying objects. That he is criticized for seeking enjoyment in challenging times reveals the ambivalent gaze of the public towards his study of UFOs. As an explorer of the unknown, he doubts the existence of UFOs, while at the same time considering uncharted or undiscovered territories beyond those defined by mainstream science. In the same vein, the film makes no attempt to draw quick conclusions about UFOs. Rather, it calmly conveys moments of communion between scientific approaches and people’s curiosity of the unknown. Now, it’s time to draw a sketch of UFOs.

The baseball teams of Gwangju Jeil High School and Hwasun High School play a game, and an insurance planner from Kyobo Life Insurance makes a call to the owner of Whirlpool Laundry. Boys of an acting school listen to music from a smart phone. The film staff shoots the scenes.

The title refers to three “female-to-male” men. Ko has been taking hormones for 8 years in the belief that he must become completely “masculine” to be accepted; Han has her breasts removed as part of a process of becoming “ungendered”; while Kim finds that his new male legal identity only opens up new confusions.

Immediately after liberation, an incident called 'Jeju Uprising' took place on Jeju Island, the Hawaii of Korea, under the control of the US military government. As a result, about one-tenth of the total population of the island at that time was sacrificed. The children who survived the massacre record the memories of that day in an animated film 70 years later.

The 1999 game "Elancia" marks its 21st anniversary this year. Due to lack of management, various macros programs and cheats are rampant, but few users are still left in the game. Why can't they leave Elancia? "My Sister Jeon Ji-hyun," a user of Elancia for 16 years, stepped out of a stuffy room with a camera to answer questions about why others are still playing the game.

This film creates a "video mixtape" by assembling fragments from over 50 films produced by the now-defunct Korean film company Nama-jinheung between the late 1960s and early 1990s. Through these carefully curated scenes, it captures the inner landscape of Koreans during the Cold War and the era of rapid economic growth, offering a unique reflection of a nation in transformation.

Park Dongsu is living on his own after leaving the disabled facility where he first started writing poems. While having a hard time writing poems, he buys a fish called “corydoras.” Looking at the fish for a long time, he falls asleep and dreams of where he used to live. Then he heads there to find traces of his poems.

Seventeen hold an online concert on January 23, 2021 as their first concert with all 13 members since 2019.

The ocean is the beginning and end of all life. Yet now, this vast cradle of life is collapsing. SEAGNAL follows the final signals from the ocean, leading us on a journey to confront the truths we’ve long ignored. From marine debris and ghost fishing caused by abandoned fishing gear to overfishing that pushes marine species to the brink of extinction, and coastal villages sinking due to rising sea levels... Our oceans are dying due to humanity’s unchecked greed, ignorance, and indifference. SEAGNAL follows seven individuals who have sensed the ocean’s warning, asking not just to heed the alarm but to reconsider how we coexist with the sea. The ocean’s final signal, SEAGNAL. Are you ready to listen?

What does it mean to care for a being that has nothing to do with you? How can we explain spending one’s youth in a rural mountain valley, enduring hardship to care for wild animals that, unlike pets, will never grow close to humans?

Nicknamed the ‘heart of conservatives,’ Gyeongsangbuk-do (North Gyeongsang Province) is the conservative stronghold of Korean politics, having not elected a single liberal Democratic Party member to the National Assembly in the past 30 years. From the 2022 local elections to the 2024 general election, TV-writer-turned-filmmaker Hong Youngah documents the uphill battle of Democratic Party candidates, clad in signature blue jackets, in this ‘land of the red.’

On April 16th, 2014, the Sewol Ferry sank in South Korea, taking with it the lives of 304 of its 476 passengers. South Korea's worst maritime disaster traumatized a nation while simultaneously sinking the country's emotional spirit. The film asks why the rescue of Korea's children and people was neglected on the fateful day the Sewol sank.

This work tells the story of the daily lives of two ticketing cinema staff during two incidents that sparked the birth of democracy in Jakarta in 1998 and Gwangju in 1980. They never experienced it directly or went onto the streets to face the soldiers, yet the stories they heard and the voices that reached them felt like an endless war film replaying in their minds.

Cheonggyecheon is a small industrial area in the city of Seoul where small metal workshops are located. Cheonggyecheon had played a key role in the industrialization of South Korea from the remnants of colonialism and war. Following the liberation of the country from Japanese rule in 1945, many industrial complexes became abandoned, resulting in a flood of scavenged machine parts on the market.. In the 1960s, Vietnam War veterans brought many machines into Cheonggyecheon, initiating small-scale production and what’s now considered “copy” production unique to the economies of developing nations. In the past five years, the business on Cheonggyecheon has declined as the surrounding neighborhood is in the process of renovation and gentrification, as part of a beautification initiative by the Seoul Metropolitan Government.

Since 2007, Ongals, the Korean nonverbal comedy team, has traveled the world and gained popularity. They have yet to make their way across the ocean to the biggest stage in the world… Vegas. But their journey isn’t easy, since one of the old members suffers from cancer while a rookie doesn’t seem to adapt himself to the team.

Cinema Gwangju is the first theater in the Honam-region and the only theater that opened in 1935. The cinema has screened films in its original place up to these days. A musician Gonne Choi invites the seven musicians to share "Gwangju-ness" from her own perspective and they visit the cinema to speak and sing about their own "Withstanding and Existing". This documentary also contains the story of the painter Park Tae-gyu, who continuously has been working on hand-painting movie posters from the 1990s until today.

Serial murder examines how seemingly rational choices can perpetuate inequality, challenging viewers to reconsider workplace structures and their societal implications. The Footprints of the Invisible Man Walking on the Sand explores diverse mourning processes, documenting memories, testimonies, and funerals of those for whom death is as close as life. Chores of one's own revisits a construction site 31 years later, exploring the impact of a young worker's death.

It's been more than 1,000 days since the workers of Cort/Cortek Guitar begun a struggle after the company abruptly closed down. Meanwhile, musicians performed for the workers so many people are aware of the company's injustice, but the company has yet to respond. The workers visit international instrument expositions all around the world, meet other guitar companies such as Fender and Ibanez who subcontract with Cort, and share the struggle with them. The workers also align with musicians in Japan and the USA. They achieve international solidarity through music.

In 2009, five tenants of the Yongsan district, who were forcefully evicted from their homes staged a sit-in and were burned to death. This film by Mun Jeong-hyun recalls the many movements of Korean civil rights and activism and asks where all the idealism went, even as the atrocities return today.

Four young men who call themselves ‘the surplus people’, leave to Europe without money to support themselves. They plan to travel the whole Europe in a year by making promotional video clips and bartering them for free accommodation. Would this simple plan work?

Working as a designer for a clothing company, Song-mi, feeling skeptical about her heavy workload and repetitive daily life, decides to quit her job and become a freediving underwater performer. As she went deeper into her sea, Songmi felt that her body and mind, which had been weary of her, were healed. In order to return this 'gift of healing' she received from her sea, she challenges a special underwater performance with installation artist Boseong and aqua aerobics instructor Doui. Youth campaigns in Jeju, Palau and Cebu. The silent cry of a mermaid trapped in a plastic forest in the middle of the Pacific Ocean now throws a strong warning to our oceans.

Hong Sangsoo's short film made for the 59th edition of the New York Film Festival.

Onesun, one of Korea’s first generation hip-hop musicians, appeared on an audition program. Although he did not make it to the finals, he received great attention for the first time in 20 years since his debut. However, he still delivers packages, and at nights he runs the underground hip-hop club ‘In2Deep’ in Hongdae. Onesun’s life and his club ‘In2Deep’ illustrate the reality underground musicians are faced with.

One year after the Korean War, the conflict had reached a stalemate. The two opposing forces began to search for a way to end the grueling war of attrition, eventually settling on a modest village called ‘Pan Mun Jom’ near Gaeseong as the designated site for negotiations. Despite initial hopes for a quick resolution, the negotiating parties encountered obstacles that prevented an agreement. Disputes over the military demarcation line and the repatriation of prisoners of war thwarted their efforts. The film peels back the layers to reveal the untold story of Pan Mun Jom, shedding light on a history that has remained hidden until now.