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The film shows demonstrations against building the second airport in Jeju Island the performances of environmentalists very closely and in detail, by which it develops a desperate love story.

There are people who are treated as outcasts, repeatedly dismissed, and pushed to the margins just because they are temporary workers or union members. However, they do not get intimidated. Although capital may pass over their existence and permanent employees ignore them, they heal and overcome their difficulties over and over again. They choose a path with a dream to live as human beings. A story about people who are walking their paths with surefooted steps.

This is a record of six years since the closing of the Doomeal branch school. At the end of 1994, the residents of Doomaelee, who protested the closure order of Doomeal Elementary School in Doomaelee village (Gapyeong-gun, Gyeonggi-do), developed an anti-closure movement and opened a school in the village hall to teach children. Due to the unreasonable demands of the education office and the government, it is discontinued.

Watercolors is an omnibus documentary that highlights indie musicians who are seeking new paths and creating their own musical world.

BIASes follows BIAS NYC, a party that uniquely fuses K-pop & underground club music while spotlighting queer & trans culture, as they prepare to make their debut in Seoul. Co-founders Sammy & Julian have poured everything into creating the inclusive community they've always yearned for, but will it embrace them back?

In Kawasaki, Japan, 1st to 3rd generation of Korean-Japanese and Americans share their daily lives and wish for a symbiotic society. The inter-Korean summit in 2000 brought reconciliation and hope to the divided Korean community. Meanwhile, hundreds of hateful demonstrators are approaching Sakuramoto, the Korean residence, amid deepening tensions between Japan and Korea in 2016.

In 1988, workers at the 'Busan Working Women's House' study the Labor Standards Act, receive overdue salaries, and take menstrual leave and pre- and post-partum leave. As the subdivided women's movement develops, Busan women also take to the streets to fight against domestic and sexual violence. Around the same time, female students in Busan and South Gyeongsang Province actively campaigned to create school rules to regulate sexual violence in universities. In 2000, Pusan ​​National University's first feminist festival

Set against the backdrop of the Jangheung Massacre and the chaotic events of the Korean War, this gripping film explores the brutal reality of civilian life during one of Korea's darkest times. The Jangheung Massacre of 1948, and the subsequent horrors of 1950, unfold through the chilling accounts of civilians caught in the crossfire of war. Following the Yeosu-Suncheon Incident on October 19, 1948, the massacre continued in waves: the military's suppression operations, the execution of members of the National People's Coalition in July 1950, the killings during the People's Army occupation, and the brutal retribution killings after police forces regained control in October 1950. Jangheung was a region so deeply involved in the war's guerilla activity that the People's Guerrilla Command of Jeollanam-do was even set up near the village of Gaji Mountain. As a result, civilian casualties were massive.

Each August, these survivors gather in their community to remind the world the horrors they endured and advocate for change. Even after 78 years, the impact of those bombs remains vivid in their lives, but the world seems to have forgotten its atrocities, hurtling faster and faster towards another atomic bomb use.

Determining which memories are real and capturing something with a camera share a commonality: what lies outside the frame is forgotten. The moment a photographer chooses to capture something, everything else is excluded and pushed out of the frame. In 2024, I weave together a story that reaches beyond the image squares of my childhood and beyond my father's moldy film. This journey raises essential questions: What do we choose to remember, and what remains?

I am fascinated by candlelight. If the world finally came to an end, I imagined it would be like a candlelight. People laughed, cried, and shouted in the square. Thanks to a small spark in my hands, I was able to imagine a new world to come after the apocalypse. Fascinated by the roaring flame, I didn't think of those who couldn't afford to hold candlelight, those who couldn't occupy the square.

The Father Moon Ik-hwan had been imprisoned for inaugurating the National Security Law after visiting North Korea. However Korean people’s desire for reunification heated up the whole country and Moon Gyu-hyeon and Lim Su-Gyeong visited North Korea. That means Father Moon’s visit to North Korea triggered Korean people’s desire for reunification. This film represents the Father Moon’s point of view on and people’s movement on reunification through influence of his visit in North Korea in 1989.

Inside the train from Wengen to Lauterbrunnen, the snow-covered landscape and the darkness of the tunnel, three windows offer serene yet ever-changing impressions.

shows visual and metaphorical representation using rope as a motif through various rope images and meanings.

All the family members willingly went through hardship travelling numerous cities and countries including Gwangju city, Cambodia, Bosnia, and Palestine, and the young children became grown-ups doing so. There were joy, anger, sorrow, and pleasure in their journey as they chose to visit the troubled parts of the world with not enough money.

Two brides but no groom, the most beautiful wedding

In South Korea, getting into a prestigious university is a measure of success. In this ‘strange country’, the majority of people run toward the same goal. But there are ‘Alices’ who have taken the bold step of stepping on the brakes in their life and choosing a different route from the conventional path. Korean youth who have embarked on a journey in search of the “freedom to look sideways” offer these encouraging words of comfort to all of us who are determined to push forward, not knowing how to slow down.

‘Siot’ is an animal experimental researcher and vegan, ‘Dalyeon’ is an animal liberation activist and an animal tested pill taker. What do the two different worlds say to each other?

Should the trees in the city always disappear whenever reconstruction takes place? The project, which began with memories and records, leads to meeting various people from different fields to explore practical ways to preserve trees. The film follows the whereabouts of the trees that once lived on a green island in a ruin of concrete until they eventually vanished.

In a small rural village in Jeollanam-do, senior ladies learn to read and write from Mrs. Kim at a 'Sall Library at the Road,' a community library and learning center. When they were young, they couldn't go to school because their families were poor. Getting married, they couldn't make time for their education while raising their children and supporting family. After the long and suffering years, they finally have an opportunity for education, a chance to tell their stories with their own words. Their beautiful works were published as a book in 2016. The documentary follows the senior poets' daily lives as they write about their lives of joy, laughter, tears, and happiness.

A married couple cling to prayers for answers during a series of hardships: the news of the husband's 4th degree stomach cancer on the day the wife gives birth to a daughter; the sudden death of her mother; and the news of the wife's 4th cancer a week after the end of the husband's chemo treatment.

We covered the reclusive monk Beopjeong for three years, from our first meeting on April 30, 2001 until 2003! Monk Beopjeong of ‘no possessions’. KBS reporters met him, who had long avoided TV appearances and contact with the media. One day, about 6 months later, after lingering around the camera without even turning it on, the monk said his first words. ‘Let’s support the cows’. The meeting that took place after that and the monk's words were captured on screen. The clear and fragrant words of a monk heard among the bamboo forest along with the beautiful four seasons of Bulilam Hermitage! An anti-war message delivered by a monk at Ground Zero in the United States. 'Hate only blinds the eyes.' The footage of him accompanying Monk Beopjeong for three years will be revealed on a KBS Sunday special.

Backstage shows the lives of MMA fighters who must endure a monk-like lifestyle and draws out their voices. They look like modern day gladiators on the outside but fear lurks deep in their hearts as they are forced to fight inside a cage. This documentary is a moving portrayal of how these fighters comfort and encourage each other in a community of friendship where a single mistake can lead to irrevocable despair.

A 28-year-old girl, In-hi Hwang, experiences paralysis in her upper body to which she does not know the cause, and her family continues to get into accidents. She saw this as some kind of curse and visits Hae-kyung Lee, the female shaman. In-hi finds out that she is destined to be a shaman and falls into dilemma. Korean Shamans are the intermediary that link living humans to the world of the spirits and the world beyond, between reality and a non-realistic world. They have sometimes played a role as an advisor of life, sometimes as cursed messengers of weird gods. They are a group of people who are usually despised by others, but they have been around for the past 5000 years, carrying the burden of the gift that god has bestowed upon them.

The film aims to touch upon not only the general history of Korean immigration, which is full of twists and turns, but also the underexplored history of the national liberation movement carried out by Korean women in Hawaii.

Set between Hong Kong, London and Frankfurt, this is the intimate portrait of five women working in the highest spheres of finance. Regularly stigmatised as “dragon-women”, they reveal the survival mechanisms they use and the personal battles they fight in this ultra-patriarchal professional field where they represent a tiny minority.

An old dog is living in a vacant lot. Camera approaches the villagers to reveal the dog. While people share their memories, memory and reality are intertwined to form an atmosphere.

KWAK Hyeon-sook, owner of the second-hand bookstore "Abel Bookstore" in Baedari village, Incheon, has been in business for over 30 years. Since 2007, she has been fighting against the construction of an industrial road that will run through the village. When the construction was stopped because of protests from residents, the village gradually turned into a nature space where we could enjoy the four seasons as grass and trees began to grow. In the meantime, various cultural and artistic events are held there, and various artists visit there. However, in 2019, the city again engages in several works to finish the construction in this space and creates friction with the residents.

Photographer Shin Mi-sik, composer Jang Tae-hwa, and a volunteer music team travel to this unfamiliar land to teach ukulele and choir. For children who had never before touched an instrument, the small melodies bring laughter and ignite dreams. A 50-member ukulele ensemble and a 100-member children's choir come together. Their voices fill the schoolyard, becoming more than just a performance. The music turns into a melody of hope that brightens their lives, opening the most pure and heartfelt stage in the world.

At the invitation of the Nam June Paik Art Center museum, Jankowski travels to Korea. There he gets to know Nam June Paik's studio. Shortly before his death, Paik sold the untidy studio as an installation. After his death, the entire studio was shipped from New York to Seoul and faithfully reconstructed in the heart of the museum. Jankowski decides to clean up the mess. He commissions the professional cleaning company “Beautiful Cleaning” to put things in order.

Father had been living an unstable life following after construction sites to work as part-time carpenter. But now, he's old and there aren't any sites who'll hire him. The multi-leveled structure of the construction industry in Korea and Japan is managing the laborers inhumanely. While looking at those who live every day of their lives finding work and always with the uncertainty and pain of unemployment, I'm reminded of my father.

In the winter of 2025, vulture chick came to Ulsan from Mongolia. People feed vultures who have no food, treat injured individuals, and return them to nature. How should vultures, who have lost their homes due to industrial development, live in the future?

In search of an ecological life, Nata leaves Jeju for Jangsu and begins building a house with natural materials. After a ritual blessing the new life, plans slowly unravel. Later, with a partner, Nata tries communal living in Haenam, but it too proves unfit. Rather than regret these unfinished attempts, Nata finds a quiet sense of completion in their beginnings.

The documentary of a potter who struggled with fire for his entire life to make a singular piece of crockery and his daughter who developed her own power to inherit the fire from her father. The potter wishes to meet the misfortunate bowl “Maksabal,” which became a national treasure of Japan. On the other hand, his daughter wants the father’s fire. Would their desire be fulfilled?

Cut, drowned, burned, buried, and evaporated, Myeong Wol's body eumhwa blossoms in a dream. Eumhwa is erotic image, negative, and secret story. Part I traces colonial courtesan body, exploring erotic of rumor via peach, parasite, and film metaphors. Part II reworks 79 experimental films as negative found footage. Work in digital and film, letting vanished body's eumhwa blossom.

​Seung-woo, who is a 20-year veteran rock musician, forms a band named ‘The Monotones’. But the first vocal’s skill was below standard, and the second vocal has been cast in a new soap opera. Finally they meet the third vocal, Sae-young. But Sae-young leaves the band, because his personality is not compatible with Seung-woo. The remaining members try to find a new vocal, but it is hard to find a good vocal at that time. Seung-woo decides to perform without vocal. It is his last effort to keep the band ‘The Monotones’. Through The Monotones’ rooftop concert without vocal, they come to realize that this is where they should be, and they remember when they first began.

Since the construction of the naval base in Gangjeong Village, the ocean ecosystem has been seriously damaged. The ones who have to cope with these changes are non-human life forms who live in places that we can’t see. Gangjeong divers become a mediator between the humans and the creatures under the sea, yielding their bodies to the underwater creatures.

The film follows an abandoned son's search for the mother who left him. Like the final scene of Im Kwon-taek’s Gilsotteum (1986), which evokes the primal power of Korean kinship, this journey is filled with lingering images and sounds. Chronicling his travels through Japan, Portugal, and Spain, the film traces the unbreakable—if unseen—thread of blood that connects a mother and son, and extends through a scattered people.

Baekheung-am Temple, a bhikkhunī (Buddhist nun) temple which opens only twice a year, is famous for its conservatism and principles. Access to this temple is prohibited and so is picture-taking. Although it was difficult to get the permission for shooting, it unlatched the latch by itself after I was officially exiled four times. Monk Sunwoo who lost her parents when she was three years old and grew up in the temple asks herself if this way is what she chose and what it means to her. Monk Sangwook chose to become a Buddhist priest before she became a professor. Her old sick mother constantly visits her to change her mind. Old master of seventy years old, who has trained for 40 years, self-examines her severely asking if she has lived properly.

Four people appeared in different films with their memory of the May 18 Gwangju Democratic Uprising. They now take photos in the same place they used to be four decades ago, with similar facial expressions. Forty years later, how would they feel about the memory of the day and the films that tell their memories?

In 1966, the girl band ‘All Stars’ was formed centered on drummer Kitty (Jun-im Lim), a third-year high school student. They left the country with an understanding that they were going to perform in Southeast Asia. However, they arrived and put on a spot to perform, sometimes risking their lives, for the soldiers on the battlefield of Vietnam. Kitty was recognized for her musical talent, and formed the five-member girl band ‘Korean Black Eyes’ in Bangkok in 1971. The band moved onto Beirut as their base and toured throughout the Middle East and Africa, including Egypt and Nigeria. When they entered Spain in 1973, they went on a concert tour with Cliff Richard, Julio Iglesias, and others. They recorded an album in Portugal at the suggestion of a local producer, but had to quickly escape the country when the military revolution broke out. Wherever they went, including Vietnam and Lebanon, they encountered turbulent scenes of modern history.

One cellist heads to Africa. There is only one goal of this journey. "Playing a song for just one child" It is for children who have never seen the cello and have never heard the performance. There is no script, no directing, no stage, no rehearsal. As the performance begins, the cello sounds most similar to the human voice. The low, deep, and deep echo is transmitted to the listener through the air. This unfamiliar landscape unfolds without words makes us imagine that "music came before words in the beginning."​

After learning of the untimely deaths of her father’s siblings, director Aishu asks her to help her translate the poems left behind by one uncle who achieved cult status posthumously. As they work together to break intergenerational silences and taboos, the old apartment expands, connecting them to the world outside.

Filmed at Hongjecheon in Seoul, Mokgamcheon in Gwangmyeong, and Gulpocheon in Incheon, the film captures the impressions of three streams in three different cities. Each of the three streams intersects and overlaps with images of the filmmaker’s own body.