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As the spread of COVID-19 intensifies, dance schools perform all classes online. Both professors and students barely observe each other's bodies moving on a small monitor, and it is difficult to follow the rhythm of each other's performance. Regular performances are canceled, and they set out to find time and space to connect their movements, in replacement of the stage.

The collective heroes of the film represent the Chinese Korea society: its past, present and future. The director examines the particular experience of the ethnic group without dramatization, as he paints their portrait with genuine respect for the tragedy of the subjects.

An unfiltered chronicle of two of the internet's most notorious nuisance streamers, charting six chaotic months in South Korea as clout-chasing and greed unravel into scandal, crime, and global reckoning.

There is a south-facing house in Gyeonggi Province. In this house, there are four people: my mom, dad, grandfather, and me. They spend their days in their own space. Sounds traverse the house, both from inside and out.

We are 1000 days old couple who decided to break up at the end of this marathon.

Eun-gyeol Lee, who has performed on various stages worldwide, including Las Vegas, is a prominent Korean magician and pioneering illusionist who has established 'illusion' as a new genre. With over 1,500 performances and more than 1.5 million accumulated audience, he has made history in the world of performing arts. Now, he completes the final piece of the puzzle of

Devi's life was upended following her arrest during Nepal's civil war accused of rebellion. Tortured and raped while in custody, she faced depression and isolation. Despite hardship, Devi joined rebel forces and became a prominent member of Parliament.

In 2018, following 23 years of marriage, my mother and father got divorced. All the family members claim that the divorce happened because of their grandfather. What has happened to my family?

Tongyeong-si, Gyeongsangnam-do. The southern coast of the Korean Peninsula. “The land of the sea” where 570 islands float. When viewed from a distance, the sea is still beautiful. But the reality of the sea is not like that. What can we do to save the ocean that is turning into ‘plastic porridge’?

The members of the band Cadejo have become floating spirits. They drift around here and there, and head for one location. They go through a lot of people and events. They clash and play music. Their past starts overlapping with the present and their existence breaks down.

Junha is one of the most difficult children at the school. His autism causes him to attack his classmates and even teachers without warning. Each outburst further isolates Junha from his community as his teachers and peers struggle to find a way to live "with" Junha. The camera provides an intimate look into this society, leaving the question; what is human entity and how is it connected?

In an era defined by climate crisis and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, a group of individuals embarks on a mission to sow the seeds of a controversial plant. They initiate their farming venture in Paju, near the border between North and South Korea, attracted by hemp's ecological benefits and its potential to foster peace. However, they soon face significant obstacles in a country where hemp is classified as an illegal drug. Those who require hemp for medical purposes, along with its advocates are criminalized as the plant itself is. In a nation that has declared a war on drugs, no one associated with hemp remains untouched by the shadow of illegality.

Ji-hwang wants to be a farmer rather than an office worker, Ha-seok is striving to find what he truly wants, and Du-hyeon dreams of being the head of his hometown village Gangnu Maeul. These three guys gathered to form a team called the ‘Emergency Rations.’ Determined to live well as farmers in Korea where it’s hard for farmers to make ends meet, the trio decide to go for an agricultural around-the-world travel to explore how farmers in other countries farm and live. The goal: to come up with an ‘acceptable’ business model. ​

An international project that spans across Korea, China, and Japan, Lash challenges viewers to think fundamentally about the human existence and humanity. The three chapters titled “Messenger,” “Message,” and “Messiah” feature workers of a Chinese sex doll factory, a politician dreaming of innovating the Japanese political system with AI robots, and a middle-aged Japanese man living with a sex doll.

The director, who herself comes from a family near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between North and South, explores an issue largely forgotten between the Korean War and current tensions: In the 1960s, North Korean refugees were settled here in houses provided by the Park Chung-hee dictatorship for propaganda purposes. For decades now, they have lived along the line of confrontation. The most personal border zone runs through their houses, where individual history and collective memory meet.

1997 revisits South Korea's tumultuous late 1990s through documents obtained from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by the civic organization The Center for Freedom of Information and Transparent Society.

The kid suffers from _____________.

When an unplanned baby enters the lives of a conservative mother, neurodivergent daughter and detached gay son, the trio travels back in time through their diaries and family photos to mend ruptured bonds and prepare for a new cycle of motherhood.

KIM Haneuldameun is a young girl who dreams of becoming an underwater photographer. One day in 2013, she encounters a wrecked ship underneaththe water. For some time, she feared of entering the water after the Sewol Ferry disaster. However, she continues her task of capturing images of the wrecked ship on camera. She decides to open an exhibition of her underwater photo works with an underwater photographer. She offers her photos of the sky and clouds as a present to the wrecked ship that cannot see the sky from beneath the water it has sunken into.

Yeon Young-seok is a singer, activist and cultural laborer. His music consoles the fatigue of many people who live in the cruel neo-liberalist world and at the same time composes his own tiring life and reality. As he consoles the world, however, Yeon chose music as his strong motive to live his life which regulates his reality. In this contradictory reality which he feels pain and also consoles, he walks into the world and reflects himself on a condition of winning. Let us listen to his music in his studio, in his one bedroom apartment and on the street. And let us picture what the victory that we need for us is, instead of convicting a victory.

Mad minutes is a documentary about the memories of civilians who were killed by the Korean army during the Vietnam War. It testifies to the insanity and barbarism of war that does not stop, even through the memories of survivors, who are living with the terrible memories of war buried in the heartbreaking historical sequence where countless civilians were sacrificed. The director tells a forgotten part of history through the lives and testimonies of the survivors. It is a record of the scars of war that can never be erased, in line with the twisted modern history: Before even properly apologizing for the massacre of Vietnamese civilians caused by the dispatch of South Korean troops to Vietnam in the past, the government dispatched troops to Iraq again. - Mad Minutes: "To soothe the boredom of American soldiers dispatched to Vietnam during the war, we give them 2-3 minutes once every two months to allow them to freely shoot at anything other than the target inside the unit."

Wizdan lives in the rural village of Sebastia. Both their parents are olive farmers. With the expansion of Israeli settlements, Wizdan's and Nidal's parents are losing their farmland, but the problem is not theirs alone. But many Palestinians have been living in refugee camps for almost 70 years, and the fourth generation of refugees are growing up in refugee camps today. They struggle to guard their land despite repeated humiliation, and the film focuses on the resistance of such ordinary Palestinians including Wizdan's family.

〈Yangrim-dong Girl〉, which captures the life of director Oh Jae-hyung's co-director's mother (Lim Young-hee), is a combination of narration (documentary) and painting (anime).

Director Lee Dongwoo of No Money, No Future (2016), created his second film with the main character of a homeless man he met at Tapgol Park in Jongno. One morning, this homeless man is drunk and approaches director Lee for money. He is a doubtful character who is often in and out of the detention center and mentions Bresson, Ozu, and Ha Giljong. He claims to have been invited to the Venice International Film Festival and the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival with his film Self-Portrait 2000. Self-Portrait 2020 is a record of strange friendships and a film of respect (homage) to a promising young film director of 20 years ago. Two directors, two films, and splendid credits.

In 2012, reeling from the pain of a broken heart, I met Frank, "one of the best psychics in New York." Frank is a celebrity psychic specializing in love, but he has avoided reading himself. As I begin to read him with my camera and my camera and I become his medium, our relationship develops.

On the 1st of February, 2021, Myanmar’s Military launched air strikes against the Karen minority group. The news reminds K of his time in Karyn State 4 years back. K thinks of General Neda who wanted to build a community for Karen refugees, Khun from Thailand and the village children who helped him. He promised to fight for peace when General Neda sang “Wonderful Tonight” for him. Reminded of his forgotten promise, K roams the street aimlessly. Still, time eats away at his memories.

In Seoul, there are 70 thousand taxis including 20 thousand corporate taxis and 40 thousand private taxis threading across the city. In most cases, a taxi driver works 12 hour shifts and must complete 20 to 30 trips a day in order to take home the smallest of earnings after paying 80 to 100 dollars to the taxi company. The taxi drivers go to every nook and cranny of the city with a variety of passengers at their side or in the back seat. One summer I became a taxi driver, driving one of Seoul’s 70 thousand taxis …

An experimental documentary beginning as a cold chronicle that describes hygiene management in industrial sites in Korea, then suddenly jumping into sociology of leisure and hobby that represents today's thinking about labor.

A girl who grew up knitting starts to knit her memories into a story.

Two Japanese women, who have lived in Korea with a difference of a half century, go to Japan. They are Yoko in Kawashima Watkins’ [So Far from the Bamboo Grove] and Masako living in Korea after the marriage with a Korean. The audience will follow their journey through the views of the two women.

‘Udumbara’ is the name of a band created by Monk Hyegwang and his past colleagues working together in nightclubs in the 1970s and 1980s. Now in their 60s or 50s, the members’lives have been highly dramatic. This film narrates their past in their own voice, while following their current life. They have to work to support their own life, but their passion for music remains strong.

A fascinating trip to Buddhist temples in South Korea. Three nuns share ancient knowledge about the truths of the contemporary world and teach that the balance of eating habits is the key to our health body, mind and the preservation of the planet.

Convicted as a rioter rather than a documentarian at the Western District Court, what did the director capture? A documentary reflection following the people's gaze that never stopped, even as the world collapsed.

70 years ago, a massacre called ‘Red Hunt’ occurred in Jeju island. Over 6 years, countless lives were murdered in the Daranshi cave, Jungbang waterfall, and Ompang field. There was no line between life and death. There were only ideological and political strategies that surrounded Jeju. After 49 years, survivors can finally testify the memories that could not be forgotten.

23 Cents Soldier is shaped around the memories of four Turkish and three Korean war veterans. The interviews begin with the lives of the veterans before the beginning of the war and continue with memories of the war and post-war era.

One peaceful day for the farmers in the summer of 2009, the Korean government announced the master plan for the “4 Major Rivers Project.” The government suddenly announced that organic agriculture severly polluted the water. The 4 Major Rivers Project was a mega-sized national project by the LEE Myungbaek Administration to “renovate” the 4 major rivers in Korea to construct the Korean Peninsula Great Canal. The project constructs 16 dams in the rivers and expropriates farming lands and riverbeds to build bicycle roads and parks. The Paldang “Dumulmeori” organic farming area known as the hub of Korean organic farming was to be included as part of the 4 Rivers Project. This film is about the 40 Months of struggles by organic farmers against the 4 Major Rivers Project.

In Korea, when things go wrong in the household, the housewife may consult a shaman to determine if the problem is caused by an angry god or ancestor. The occupation of shaman is female dominated and holds a dual reputation in contemporary Korean society. In one respect, shamans are considered lewd women who promote superstition; in another, they are seen as keeping alive the religious ideals of the past. The film follows one woman's trials from when she felt destined to be a shaman through her two-day initiation ceremony. The emotional impact of the ceremony, which is apparent throughout, reaches a climax during the ritual of the 'knife riding general' in which the initiate stands barefoot on knife blades in order to receive the spirits and speak in their voices.

A master of martial arts, who’s homeless and jobless, spends his days alone at a martial arts center. He looks for work, but it’s difficult to find, as he is now in his late 30s. The more he comes to terms with his reality, the more he feels defeated. When his loneliness gets too hard to bear, he thinks back on days he had with his mother when he was younger. Those good times are a trip down memory lane, and through that, he finds peace of mind. But reality is what it is; it doesn't change.

The Close-Up of Bae Chang-ho is a documentary that delves into the work of director Bae Chang-ho. In this cinematic essay, he revisits key locations from his films, exploring the intricate relationship between nature, urban landscapes, architecture, and his works, while sharing his reflections on life and cinema.

The happy lives of Haengdang-dong residents are overturned when their land is slated for redevelopment.

It is criticized that the resident card, which has been implemented since 1968, is in fact only a fascistic system of state power to classify and control the people. Fingerprinting is the most essential part of the control process, and the work explains that only after completing the humiliating fingerprinting process can you enjoy your rights and duties as a 'citizen'. The director is a person who has participated in the opposition to fingerprinting since May 2000. The movement of the work follows Lee's struggle leading up to the administrative lawsuit, intersecting the arguments of the government and the logic of opponents of the resident card.

This documentary is a director Kim Dong-won’s only autobiographical film that was produced as a request from the video festival. The film starts with the director’s son declaring that the film should start with a blank background with a title reading “We will now start Tekken Family” and then the director’s voice asking his son “ Have you ever seen a film start like that?” The whole family sits in front of a game machine playing Tekken and having a joyous time. This image of the family is very much different to the passive and disconnected image of a family portrayed in People in the Forest of Media.....

The Meaning of 1/24 Second is Korea's first experimental film and was filmed in 1969. This 16mm film in color and black and white is composed of hundreds of inconsistent scenes. Taking the basic structure of the film, which consists of 24 frames per second, The Meaning of 1/24 Second expresses the steep reality faced by modern man, and the sense of alienation that comes from uncontrollable speed. The video file that remained only in digital format since it went missing in 2001 was restored to 16mm film for screening for his retrospective exhibition , which has been held at Seoul Museum of Art, Republic of Korea in 2013, thus providing an opportunity to look back on its meaning.