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The story of the ancient and sacred Gureombi Rock. The story of the people of Gangjeong Village who rise up against the construction of a US/Korea Naval base on their holy and precious land. The winds of peace, like the winds of Jeju Island, are blowing.

In a Seoul studio, Eunjoo—a North Korean defector—prepares to record an interview about her escape. At the same time, 11-year-old Yesol travels with her family to Jeongseon, a quiet town in Gangwon Province. There, Yesol stumbles upon Eunjoo's memoir. Page by page, she comes to recognise the meaning of human rights and the power of solidarity, as two distant lives begin to rhyme.

Oh Minwook’s Eternal Brightness, adapted from Jo Gapsang’s novel Eye of the Night, narrates the past and the present lives of the characters who have lived through the contemporary history of Korea, from the Korean War in the 1950s to the Busan-Masan Democratic Protests calling for the Park Chung-hee administration’s Yushin regime in October 1979.

In May 2006, the Ministry of Defense enforces a "move out" of Daechuri in order to make room for the expanding U.S. base. 'Protectors' who support the residents fighting against the action move into the village to help protect it. People who have lived different lives gather in the same space and try to build a new community in Daechuri. As the villagers make up their mind to move, they experience another kind of separation. The faces of so many people who strived to protect the community they dreamed of are reflected on the backs of those who set off for a new place to live their lives.

I live in Miryang, the town of sunlight. I settled here 10 years ago because it was getting harder for me to live with all the farm work and this was a perfect place to take a rest with its clean air and water. Not only me. One of my neighbors came here to recover from bad health, too. However, my life nowadays became so sad and bitter. Transmission towers, called 765 something, are said to be built in the neighborhood, and it is making so much trouble. Last year, an old man who lived in another town not far from here, killed himself because of it. And I, trying to stop the construction people cutting down trees, was dragged around by young men far below my age, getting insulted with harsh words I'd never heard before. I still have the scars from being beaten by them back then. People say that 64 transmission towers are going to be seated in Miryang. It's been 8 years since I started the fight against it. 8 years!

Youngsoon defected from North Korea in 2007. Her husband killed himself and her eldest son is in North Korea. She does her best for her little son who came with her. But he thinks that his mother only loved his big brother in the North and resents her for having brought him to South Korea only to be stigamatised as North Korean defector. Youngsoon, who was born as the daughter of a South Korean prisoner of war detained in North Korea, was always poor and her only hope was her eldest son with exceptional talents. To her, her little son is more work than hope.

Three people live in Doosan Apartment in Guro-dong. Me, mom, and my grandfather. Even though it has been 12 years since dad died, we are still living under the same roof. I thought it was because of the financial situation that we could not move out of grandfather’s house. But when I found out that mom already had enough money to get a house, I became confused. Why didn’t mom move out from the “x-world” when she could? From a marriage that didn’t work out well, to a father-in-law with a temper. Why has she been enduring it, unchanging, for all the time I had witnessed her life to become a woman against marriage? One day when my anxiousness was at its peak, grandfather suggested that we live separately. Mom, reluctant to leave Guro-dong that she’d been living in for 20 years and her marriage life, will she be able to find herself and move out well?

One of the major works by South Korean feminist film collective Kaidu Club, this short is a dynamic, idiosyncratic, and mosaic-like portrait of Korean life, culture, and people who dream of a unified North and South.

A happily married aged couple flee to the countryside and begin farming. They are average people, but something quite special is needed to achieve this normal life. The power of the ordinary leads to Korean democracy: as seen in the outcome of our candlelight protest.

A journey that encounters the dead of the Vietnam War and the Iran-Iraq War. As if in a dream, the film moves along various routes formed by scars and fractures, and mediates the realm between the living and the dead.

Seung-Hoon comes down to Cheongju where his mother lives after his mother, Kim Han-Ok, suddenly collapsed from hypoglycemia one day, thinking that he does not know what will happen to his mother. Seung-Hoon is a director majoring in film and directing. I'm filming a documentary about Korea. But my father passed away, and my eldest brother passed away, so the only thing left in the family that can be said to be a big pillar is my mother. So now that I'm living with my mother, I'm also working on leaving her life as a peace story.

Wan-soon, a 9-year-old girl living on the island, managed to survive a massacre that took place 75 years ago. The lingering effects of this unresolved ordeal are emphasized, and the girl embarks on a journey to depict the vivid red fragments that remain in her memory, using a red colored pencil as her means of expression.

Even though Father Lee Tae-Seok passed away at age 48 after dedicating everything to People in Tonj, South Sudan, his seeds of love blossomed into beautiful flowers. As the sequel of 'Don't Cry for Me Sudan,' the documentary remembers Father Lee's life by following his students who have become doctors, pharmacists, government workers, medical students, etc., ready to live a life of service and dedication.

304 people drowned as the car ferry sank. Four fathers recall their memories of their children; high school students who were on their field trip. Professors, lawyers, journalists, an activist, a diver, and a politician explain why the system ultimately allowed the tragedy to occur. What is stopping the next tragedy? The world has turned upside down.

Soo-jung and Yun-jung are sisters in their 20s and 30s, both physically challenged since birth. Like other women, romance, sex, marriage, and having children are concerns in their lives. The filmmaker records their social life with a close but unpatronizing gaze, as they fall in love, break up, study porn videos, and dream about having their own children. Conventional Korean values die hard, as we see from the voices of the people around them, while the sisters themselves never cease to smile, to sing, and to try to enjoy life despite the odds.

Two layers of mesh overlap on the left. One rotates over the course of a day, its speed shifting gradually. On the right, a single mesh remains still. Digital interference is continuously superimposed onto the physical rotation. Where no rotation occurs, motion persists through digital interference alone. Under different conditions, the two images arrive at similar shimmering forms. The sound drifts with the sky. Tremolo. Pulse.

A famous human rights activist for North Korean refugees, Pastor Kim plans to help North Korean orphans to be adopted by Americans. Hearing about two young sisters who escaped from North Korea, Pastor Kim and his brokers start a lifelong adventure.

For almost 7,000 years, the Ainu people have lived in Japan's Northern islands as indigenous people. Unfortunately, the Japanese government has oppressed their traditional way of life since the Meiji era. The Ainu were forced to move, their land was plundered, and their traditional practices were banned. The Ainu people, who have different customs and appearances than the Japanese, continue to face discrimination today. In response, young Ainu musicians have formed groups to spread awareness about their identity and discrimination. They aim to promote their traditional culture and message through rap and song.

Around two o’clock in the afternoon at the park, a woman is reading a book on a bench. Meanwhile, a bird flies on a tree, the clouds cover the sun, a cat grooms itself, the waterwheel spins, pigeons rest on the pavement, a man loiters in the corner of the lawn, a butterfly flutters from flower to flower, the fountain gushes, carps swim in the pond, and ants go about their business.

An ingenious performance play and docu-fiction about a group of artists in the near future facing the end of the world to prevent the apocalypse.

An elderly couple has been living together for the past 78 years in Danchun Village in Hwage, Kyungnam. The old man does everything from cooking to laundry instead of the old woman who can't move around much. They made a promise to be together forever, but the day comes for them to say goodbye...

Still and All is a story about the souls living beneath the Yeongdo Bridge in Busan. Yeongdo and its bridge offer a historical space with lingering traces from the Japanese colonial era to the Korean War. The people under Yeongdo Bridge, reconstructed in 2013 after 47 years, are driven to move when the vicinity around it is designated a Special Tourist Zone.

Shangri-La (2023) journeys through Mongolia from an intercultural perspective, reflecting on tradition, modernity, and the tension between indigenous and Western belief systems. As filmmakers from industrialized nations — Germany and South Korea — we critically examine our own positions as outsiders, questioning the ways in which histories, environments, and ways of knowing are perceived and represented.

The award-winning short Halmoni (2003 / 10min), about the life of her Korean grandma who migrated to Japan at the age of three.

Stacking three different Trios extracted from modern dance history on the screen. Staring back a certain archiving process within movements as ‘ruins of illusion’.

Feature film for the group's mini album 'The Connect'.

In July 2024, record-breaking rains caused the levee to collapse, swallowing Jeongbaengi Village in an instant. Amid the ruins and cold bureaucracy, residents endure their hardships by relying on one another. Cooking meals together in the mud, they begin a journey of recovery. Can the resilience of a community, born from disaster, rebuild lives swept away by the current?

Punk bands in Korea get invited to biggest hardcore punk festival in Tokyo. This movie shows how one of the loudest and most active punk bands in Asia live and deliver message very closely and pleasantly.

The late Kim Dong-il, a Jeju April 3 refugee in Japan, left behind over 2,000 crocheted items and pieces of clothing that preserved her memories, identity, and history. As the film traces the redistribution of her belongings, it illuminates the still-unhealed lives of various Zainichi Koreans who lived through the same era, sharing and connecting their intertwined memories.

If you look into the entrance of one of the huge caves on the Korean island of Jeju, it looks like a camera lens. If you walk into the cave, it looks like a screen, a rectangle showing clouds and white light, just like a film. Director Kim Minjung delves into the bloody history of Jeju, where tens of thousands were killed in a massacre in 1948. The camera follows the traces in the landscape, sometimes transformed by a strident, distance-creating red light, accompanied by a commentary by avant-garde filmmaker Hollis Frampton. Film as a means to address history and its taboos.

Four years ago, I visited Yakutat, the northernmost town in Southeast Alaska. There, I followed uncle Geeneeneik, an elder of the Tlingit Humpback Salmon Clan, through pristine forests and seas. In the fall of 2023, I visited Yakutat again, and I began to record the beautiful world they dreamed of. A flower of hope is blooming in the land where only despair and ruins were thought to remain.

Poet Jae-ho no longer can write poetry in reality so he belatedly registered on the cyber world. There, he meets Ju-yeon whom Jae-ho knew before but has not thought of for 15 years. Jae-ho came to the cyber world with high hopes but is having a hard time adjusting. Ju-yeon teaches him the laws, the rules, and the living customs of cyber world. In the process, Jae-ho and Ju-yeon go beyond the everyday talk to discover an important memory that has been pushed out. Curiously, it was a file that was drifting in the sea of the cyber world. It was also Jae-ho himself as well as something to be avoided.​

A journey to find the beauty of the body I wrote my question about aesthetics. Pretending to be great, Why is Idea hiding in shabby? Pretending to exist separately, Why is beauty parasitic to pain? Is there no ldea of ​​beauty? Why does it only appear like this? Why.

The Lotte Giants is a huge part of Korean professional baseball's history. 30 years have passed since their last win in 1992. Now, they are tired of self-dissing mixed with resentment against the club and players. But, why can't they leave even though they know? Why won't the 'Talde effect' work? Why do they get excited when spring comes? Why are they so sure the win rate will be over 50%? Now here, nevertheless, with fans moving to Sajik Baseball Stadium, the 40-year history of the Giants unfolds centered on former and current Lotte Giants players.

By following Hyun-jin, an ordinary woman in her 20s except that she is a single mom, and Hyung-suk, a woman in her 40s campaigning for single moms´ rights, this documentary depicts the current situation of single moms still suffering in blind spots in cheerful yet bittersweet tones.

Documenting a performance that makes use of the Han River cruise ship and turns the spotlight on resistance against memories fading because of speed as well as the relationship between humans and nature within the city. The cruise ship points floodlights on the performance by the banks of the Han River, making Seoul a kind of massive stage and turning it into a space that questions the glances of others.

A young student lives in a mini-apartment in Incheon, in the North-West of South Korea. Wandering around the neighbourhood, she immerses herself in her family’s past, piecing together forgotten fragments of history. Using drawings and clay animation, visual artist Vatae Kimlee creates a flowing visual collage, a captivating animated graphic novel that brings back to life memories erased by the country’s accelerated transformation.

A special documentary produced for the 30th anniversary of the Seoul Olympics, 88/18 looks back at South Korea in the 1980s as the nation raced toward the Games. Through archival footage and reflection, the film examines how the 1988 Seoul Olympics brought profound changes that extended far beyond sport, reshaping Korean society itself.

The trash from the megacity Jakarta is brought to Bantar Gebang and piles up a big mountain. Nadia, a passionate young girl looks over towards the dangerous zone considered only for adults to find higher-priced trash. Nadia dreams of becoming a doctor one day to treat poor people for free. Asep, her older brother always acts tough but is soft inside. Arif, her younger brother, is bad at math but wants to be studious. Unlike other adults who are tired of life, the three siblings shine bright with their dreams for a better future. In reality, hunger is always closer than hopes and dreams. As the three get older, poverty disrupts the loving relationship between the siblings. Now the three are at a crossroads. Will they follow reality or pursue their dreams?

“Music needs no words. It communicates for itself.” The film is a story of a viola player, Richard Yongjae O’Neill, who overcame the discrimination he had experienced due to his multicultural background. Along with children from other multicultural families, they all learn to communicate through music.

In One Fine Spring Day, a Korean melodrama, it wasn't the handsome main characters' love that remained most vividly in my memory, but the scene in which the main male character was recording Jeongsun Arirang, sung by an old couple in a mountainous village. At that time whilst seeing the movie, I asked myself why this sound, not the romance, makes me shudder. I was in my 30s. And, as coincidences become inevitability, I came to know the strange village.

Korean Variety Hour, produced by KBS in 1976, captures how Koreans of that era wished to present themselves to a foreign audience. Nearly 50 years later, KBS produced the documentary series Modern Korea, which, with the advantage of a half-century of hindsight, presents images of Korea's past without any additional commentary. By juxtaposing these two programs, the film invites viewers to reflect on how much, or how little, Koreans' perspectives and self-representation have changed over time.

Sandra, an orangutan who spent two decades in Buenos Aires Zoo, becomes the world's first non-human person recognized by an Argentine court. What seems a historic victory soon sparks a deeper question: where and how should she live as an intelligent being, as law and science seek to understand her mind?

A documentary film that looks back on the history of Koreans in China through various materials and videos, from the first ethnic Koreans who settled in China in the 17th century to modern and contemporary history such as the Japanese colonial period and the Korean War.

During the pre-democracy era when publications were under oppression, some people dreamed of a city for books and some architects came along to dream together. Then, they created an one-and-only ecological city for books in an abandoned swamp in the military border of Paju. This is the story of book and culture that dreams of peaceful unification, and its building process over 30 years.

"The Cheonggye stream runs through the center of Seoul. Today a popular urban recreation area with clear water, promenades and leafy plants, the Cheonggyecheon was, until only eight years ago, a filthy rivulet under a busy freeway. In the years following the Japanese occupation and during the Korean War, part of the area around the stream was taken over by merchants who made use of the military war scrap, thus helping to lay the foundations for the country’s economic recovery. With the renaturalization of the stream, the neighborhood is now threatened by gentrification.

"I want to live even just one day longer than my children." This documentary portrays the tough daily lives of parents raising children with developmental disabilities and the cold, discriminatory attitudes they face from society. Yet, these children continue to change and grow, hoping for coexistence in a shared world. It tells the story of their desperation and the people who wish to live together with them.

In the midst of old days and nights, strangers gather and disperse.

"Kill the commmies!", "Unification by moving northward!" - this is what Byun Hee-jae yells until one day Kang Eui-suk, who he called a pro-North Korean, shows up with a camera and starts talking to him. This is how they first start getting along and Byun Hee-jae, who spends sleepless nights worried about his country, runs for candidacy in the National Assembly by-elections.