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After my father's sudden death, I find old photographs while organizing his belongings and visit the houses in the pictures. Through this journey, I bring back the trivial secrets of my family and my forgotten childhood memories. Those memories expand to collective memories of my neighborhood and spaces in Gwangju.
This Super 8 film captures the first sunshine after the rain, the reflection of bamboo in the water, and the dance of shadows of the bamboo in the wind. There seems to be an inherent mysterious connection between wind, water, sunlight, and bamboo shadows. Bamboo is one of the symbols of ancient Chinese culture. There are many traditional paintings about bamboo. This film uses Super 8mm film to shoot bamboo, looking at "Bamboo" with a contemporary eye and medium. It seems to be a dynamic Chinese ink sketch on film, with a poetic meaning. Shot and edited by Gao Wei on her rooftop garden. She plants bamboo by herself.
Chae-eun, who came back to her hometown after a long time, meets Ha-young, her high school classmate who was working in her mother's vinyl greenhouse. Yet, as Ha-young avoids Chae-eun, Chae-eun recalls memories of the past.
Sloshing screens. Particles of memory swerve and encounter each other. Doubting who owns this memory while writing down last night's dream. Flooding ghostly gazes confuse the memory of being there or not. This is a voyage of finding memory, which is the wreck of existence.
The son and mother, who are about to celebrate the 49th anniversary of their father's death at the protest site, are isolated in a reconstruction apartment due to a series of heavy rains. On a night when the sky was at its peak, the boy decides to escape with his dead mother in the muddy water that drives his mother to death and gradually fills the house.
A documentary that reconstructs the daily life and records of a dentist, and his longing for his mother.
This story is about two people who have struggled for more than 40 years to remember Korean forced mobilizers in the northern Akita region. Ha Jung-woong, a Korean-Japanese who succeeded as a businessman thanks to his outstanding abilities and the economic growth of Japan after the war, and Juroku Chatani, a Japanese historian who has built a community culture village in the Akita region of northern Japan. Their efforts to unravel the mystery of the Hime Kannon statue built on Lake Tazawa and to commemorate the victims of Korean forced labor are still ongoing.
The main character of the film, who the director happened to get in touch with, is a loan shark. He went to the same college and studied film together with the director twelve years ago. Now a money lender and debtor himself, he is addicted to gambling and struggles in the vicious circle of his pathetic life.
How much do we sense, speculate, and respond to the signs conveyed by the life and death of other beings? How can we open up our clandestine relationship with them? Rather than blur or abolish boundaries, can we sustain the tension that animates such alterity and not neutralize that relationship? In search of answers, whale-time and human-time dive into small circles where emptiness and fullness meet.
The Jeju Uprising was caused by communists (leftists) in South Korea to prevent the election of the Constitutional Assembly on May 10, 1948. The goal of the left is communist unification! The left-wing South Law Party slaughtered police, right-wing figures, election commissioners, Christians, and their families on Jeju. We hear things we don't know well, those who have been victimized by the South Law Party, and the voices of unjust victims. What were the atrocities that the communists committed? What terrible things can happen again if you don't remember this?
Kim Jae-pil, who participated in the Korean War as a member of the North Korean People's Army, saved the life of Ward Miller, a U.S. fighter pilot who was the enemy. The two hid in the mountains and shared life, death and friendship for 15 days. Finally, they were rescued by a U.S. military helicopter. Ward Millar was repatriated to the United States and Kim Jae-pil was sent by the U.S. military to the U.N. as a prisoner of war as he was dressed as a member of the North Korean People's Army. Ward Miller, who returned to the U.S. at the end of the war, found Kim Jae-pil and sent him a letter. Kim Jae-pil and Ward Millar exchanged letters in Korea and the U.S. respectively and shared deep friendships, but at some point, their letters were cut off for unknown reasons.
The film "When Elephants Come to Town" is heavily defined by its rhythm. Hyejeong Yun frees themselves from linear narrative structures and chooses a subject-centric narrative out of multimedia-based documentary methods. From this, Hyejeong combines their own experiences and observations with found footage film and collective euro-centric myths. – everyday experiences and institutionalised balances of power – In these connections, she is creating multi-sensory collages of photography, sound and film.
Most people in this world are headless. DuSeong is a police officer; one of the few that still have a head. He takes on a sexual assault case, where both the perpetrator and the victim lose their heads. One day, he discovers his daughter has also become headless, and is faced with a choice.
The ghost I have been possessed by got me a job. I really appreciate it, but she forces me to get closer to other ghosts.
Is a man's life his own?' What would happen if the trace of life disappeared from this world? A shocking fantasy-mystery drama that an elderly man who died and survived an hour later experiences as he rapidly becomes younger every day.
The first daughter, who has just lost her mother, hears about her father's remarriage. One day, someone comes.
She finally got her first house in her life, and she entered the house with a happy heart. At that moment, I hear footsteps... Why is there a man in my house I don't know?! After a slow conversation, a woman who has been scammed by a contract... a man who lets them live together until the problem is resolved. Their dizzying cohabitation begins.
A dizzying and special delivery begins.
"The Two Eyes" that premiered at the Asia Culture Center (ACC) Theater 1 in November 2020 (planned by ACC & produced by MUTO), is a reconstitution of the pansori ‘Simcheongga’ from the perspective of ‘Sim Hak-Kyu’ the Blind. "The Two Eyes", dramatized by MNHStudio and Music & Media Art by MUTO, will gift the Yeowoorak audience with new sensation through moving LED on stage and laser lightings. For this year’s Yeowoorak, fashion designer Kim Min-ju (a.k.a MINJUKIM) adds a new look to the show with her costume.
Working at a special cleaning company, Yong-hyeok and Gyeong-hyeon are sent to a lonely house. Yong-hyeok finds a big bag in the corner while cleaning. In the bag, there is a bundle of checks and he thinks about the house in an open field he’s dreamed of.
Jong-seon, an elderly man in his 70s, who repeats the same routine every day, is all about taking a walk or playing Go on the Internet. One day, an old friend called him to meet up… Jong-seon leaves the house for tomorrow's meeting. Where is Jong-seon going?
I’ve been to your old neighborhood. It was wonderful.
Representative KPOP girl group 'Apink' Let's look back on the 10th anniversary of 'Apink', the group that has always been by our side! What does the preparatory production stage for their 10th anniversary special album look like? The process from the 12/31 performance at the end of the 10th anniversary to the creation of the special album 'Horn' and the title song 'Dilemma'. Also, a commentary film for the fans who have been with us!
In a future where androids fill in for human jobs, a role-playing android J-204 experiences a mysterious error which signals a possible defect. During this time, J-204 encounters a human who is keen about its peculiar error.
In Korea, there is a rumor that you shouldn't make eye contact with something when you go through a tunnel.
Garbage is collected from various abandoned houses in Songrim-dong, Incheon. I try to remember the abandoned stories by looking at the stains on the abandoned ones. (Source: The 48th Seoul Independent Film Festival)
Rescue a girl. Rescue the boy. Rescue yourself.
The plot follows two brothers, Tae-joo and Tae-seong, whose lives have been in conflict since childhood, much like the biblical twins Jacob and Esau. Tae-joo becomes a police officer in Seoul, while Tae-seong rises as the second-in-command in a notorious crime syndicate in Busan involved in smuggling Japanese relics. Their paths cross again when Tae-joo starts investigating a smuggling case linked to Tae-seong's organization. Despite Tae-seong's devotion to his lover, Chan-mi, and Tae-joo's relentless pursuit of justice, a shocking truth is revealed that drastically impacts both brothers.
Politicians use superpowers to solve the problem of low birth rates.
One day a mail with a stranger's name arrived. Come to think of it, something similar happened in the past. It was a letter to someone who lived in my house. He must have been a tenant like me, so he might be receiving a mail delivered incorrectly like me somewhere. By the time the mail piled up and the name became familiar, it occurred to me to write a letter to the person. To the person who shared the same space as me, the person who saw what I see, the person who was the owner of the trace I lived in.
A man walks in the desert. Marks are made. He gets tired while walking. He touches the sand and rolls in it. He acknowledges the moment when he turns into sand.
Jae-yong secretly enjoys dressing up with feminine clothes on holidays. One day his daughter visits without warning and witnesses Jay-yong dressed up.
There are women who suffer from an unknown disease that causes unexplained pain. The film conveys their physical, mental, and social suffering through narration citing various texts. The director says that the narration is “a structure made of sentences collected” that she encountered during her research.
Ha-yoon gave up art for a stable reality rather than a worrying future and chose to live an ordinary life at a marketing company. She lived the path she chose, but her normal life was not smooth. Time often passed in an instant, and I heard a question at a drinking party with my best friend, Da-young, who had not yet given up on art.do.“You liked it more than me. Even if you live a normal life, your expression doesn't look that good.”Ha-yoon feels a sense of separation from the stable path she has chosen for herself. Ha-yoon said that she really is a normal day that she always spends to make sure she is happy in her normal life.smalldecide to deviate The beginning of a childhood memory trip to find your own happiness. Not great scenic days to greet in it. Ha-yoon is greeted by her realization as she chases after the memories of the past.
Okto agent 'Min', who went on an expedition to the Amazon rain forest, feels something unusual when he sees a river that has completely disappeared. In addition, a group of cranky 'howler monkeys' who should live on the forest floor, the top of the tree, also come downstairs and recklessly try to drive out 'Min'... Hearing 'Min"s good soil warning, Octonauts dispatch to the tropical rain forest!
Hye-in, who arrived in South Korea alone, facing death, is spending each day with a hard heart rather than joy because of the fact that she came alone and her exhausted mind during the process of escaping North Korea. On her first day of school, which is both thrilling and frightening, her students accuse and ridicule her students of discrimination . At that time, Yu-jin approaches and talks to Hye-in, who is alone with her. Unaccustomed to her kind attention, Hye-in continues to push Eu-jin away from her. But she doesn't care and Yujin keeps attacking...
This movie, which will be released exclusively at CGV, is expected to be a special gift to fans as it also contains a story that Jinhyuk Lee tells his fans, 'V-dan', who always support him.
After Jeonghyun helps clean the bathhouse run by her friend Hosu’s family, they take a bath together.
Director Ahn, actor Lee, and screenwriter Baek roams about Gunsan. After sunset, they read the script for Carrier Woman together.
The title of eobchae’s film AMAEBCH is a combination of acronyms reflecting the collective’s latest interests in Web 3 - ‘AMA’ as the abbreviation of ‘Ask me anything’ from social media culture and ‘EBCH’ as a cryptocurrency symbol for ‘Eobchaecoin’. The protagonist of AMAEBCH is ‘Bisamuncheon’, a king of the afterlife from The Tale of Seol Gongchan, a novel from medieval Korea. In AMAEBCH, Bisamuncheon manifests itself as an executive of ‘Eobchaecoin(altcoin created by eobchae)’ via scattered body graphics generated from LiDAR sensor, answering the questions created from GPT-3. The questioners of AMA are the sentient beings who are eager to know the destiny of Eobchaecoin. By introducing a supreme existence to bridge the three recent artworks from 2020 to 2022 in the film, eobchae shares a possible world where the fictional entities based on very different periods can exist together.
A man who can't remember anything follows around a public servant who leaves records of everything and enters the city of heal, Jecheon. When will this journey in search of something they do not know themselves end.
While Canna is preparing for her Drag show, she comes across her sister’s ex-husband who also happens to be her first love.
The life of Mi-sun, an elementary school lunch cook, is somewhat similar to that of her mother. The story of Mi-sun, who is someone's daughter, wife, mother, and friend who has been called a 'feeding lady' after college, when she dreamed of becoming a teacher.
Haeon writes songs for her band. She uses her grandmother’s poem for a song and wins an audition for a TV show. On the same day, she realized the poem plagiarized another song’s lyrics.
Cocos Island, a national park with a beautiful marine ecosystem 550 kilometers off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. Cocos Island National Park is a place where rare sea creatures that were difficult to access usually gather, and is known as the best place to observe various species of sharks and stingrays. However, the number of sharks visiting Cocos Island is decreasing every year so their movements are being identified to protect them.
The artist presents a video work represented in 3D images based on 2D-image data collected by aerial shots of a particular space in Michuhol-Gu, Incheon. This work, A-Su-Ra-Bal-Bal-Ta (2021), juxtaposes the space represented by digital technology with the repeated sound "Asurabalbalta", a kind of magic spell derived from a film. Exploring the different meanings created from the gap between what is represented by advanced technology and the aspirations of blind human desires, this work addresses issues found in modern Korean society that relate to space that is both limited and shared.
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of their debut, EXO members have traveled to Namhae, a treasure island with clean nature! The unpredictable ladder game that happens at any time and place, and the chemistry of EXO members who gathered after a long time! EXO's real trip in Namhae, Gyeongsangnam-do!
Kim Sun-young, who has enjoyed virtual space and maintained a relationship without contact, learns new facts about her father Kim Bok-dong.
When the two meet again, they eventually cross the line. After her sex, Da-hee agonizes over her relationship with Min-cheol and breaks her conscience. Min-cheol casually enjoys her date with Eun-jin, and while Eun-jin hides something, the date with Min-cheol is as friendly as before...
Danbi, who was notified of her breakup by her boyfriend Hyun-je, suggests swimming in the park to make the last memory. Thus, the two begin to carry water from their house to the park.
The story of Pinkfong and Baby Shark who travel around the world and meet in the process.
