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Did you ever hear of a 9-year-old boy making a choice to become an orphan? This describes Kim, Young-do. Even his last name is borrowed from the owner of the childcare center where he was an orphan. However, he was never discouraged. Harmony in baseball? Yes. Kim Young-do's sense of humor, striking good looks, role as the team's lead hitter and baseball manager, and his unique background as an Afro-Korean-American, eventually all come together in perfect harmony.
Ji-won and Ji-won: an ex-couple who share the same name. After ending their 7-year relationship and indie band career, they reunite on a late summer night. Ji-won arrives with an expectation of an uneventful night, while Ji-won comes with a resolution. The next day, Ji-won ends up day-drinking with former bandmates, and their summer takes an unexpected turn.
She’s cute, she’s sassy—and she can see dead people! In this candy-coated tale of poetic revenge, young exorcist Kim Rina is called to investigate the haunting of a high school dormitory, where she is met with the teary-eyed ghost of a girl with unfinished business. Would it be right to cast it away, or should Rina use her gift to help the scorned spirit find peace? – Alyssia Duval-Nguon
The projector extends itself beyond a mechanical device: it transforms into a living entity, reanimating the collective memories of its audience. Through Kwon’s live manipulation of flickers and intervals, the cinematic apparatus gains autonomy, continuously looping and coming alive. Using a reverse diffusion model, Melting Fire Iceman employs AI to portray the fluid, shifting nature of cinema’s core memories. Early films, drawn from online repositories and the Korean Film Archive, are dissolved and reimagined by AI, seemingly in an infinite cycle of rebirth. In this mesmerising process, the boundaries between memory, spectatorship and the cinematic experience are redefined.
Miss Kim Lilac is a story about a lilac tree called ‘Miss Kim’ that was brought to america from its native korea and named by an american botanist. The tree's name, which has changed over time as it moved across countries, is an imprint of colonial history, female objectification, capitalization of nature, and the migration of korean women.
Heesu, who has a driver's license she rarely uses, reconnects with her ex-boyfriend, Younghoon, under the pretext of taking driving lessons. However, due to her inexperience, she loses control of the car and ends up in a ditch.
At the end of the century, conspiracy theorist reporter LEE Jung-hwan is imprisoned in the cyber prison “New Flash”, which confines consciousness within the brain. Disgraced police officer KIM Jeon-pil, fired due to Jung-hwan's fake news, retaliates against his fabricated exposé.
The era of the zombie apocalypse is coming to an end, but Joy's younger brother, Hyun-woo, cannot be cured even with the vaccine. In desperation, Joy captures living people to feed her brother, but the situation does not improve, and they are running out of people to feed him. Seeking answers, Joy heads to the church.
A short film by Kim Minjung
Short Musical Movie
Entering from the intimate and often complicated relationships between fathers and sons, Dreams of My Father explores memories and visions from God, gods, and ghosts and their reverberations in family lives.
A short film as a draft, an exercise, or maybe the first segment of a long-term project tracing the evolution of my nephew's voice as he grows. In the film, he talks about when he built a snowman called Snow Ice Monster which was then torn down and rebuilt by other children. He listens to a recording of his voice and notices that he sounds like a certain Minjung, who does not exist in real life.
A young girl without friends is always alone. One day, the dandelion puffs she was holding were blown to someone's house by the wind.
A man emerges from the ribs of Lee Bom, who lives from house to house with her many lovers. The Rib destroys wherever Lee Bom is, and she runs away from him. But the more she tries to avoid him, the more she feels empty inside, and her sex drive and appetite grow stronger.
In SQUARE BLACK, the transparent flakes in the pitch-black box exchange images to create and dismantle a narrative. Light announces its existence with the black speck and flicker of the translucent pieces. The story begins one day when three people who understood the quotes on the city walls gather with their belongings to where the quotes refer. Three strangers exchange greetings and pray five times daily whenever the light enters.
Cheol-su and Young-hee are longtime lovers. One day, an accident causes Young-hee to lose her memory of Cheol-su, and Cheol-su tries to revive her memory.
Haesoo, allergic to lying, experiences her first kiss with Siyeon. However, she feels uncomfortable about the kiss and their sexualised touching. Seeing herself different from others, Haesoo thinks, "Do I not love Siyeon?" and feels confused about her love. Because she is uncomfortable with the word 'love', her back is getting more severe allergic reaction.
You moved as if shimmering and rippling water and I danced above like a seagull. The film explores visual reminders of objects and surroundings of memory to the void and absence tied to it, offering a path for the mechanism of memory. The imagery is contradicted by found sounds that operate as triggers of the past or as debris in the present. The film notes a new category of space-time.
In my high school senior year, I began filming me and my friends as we studied hard to get into a good university. As time goes by, I become a university student, but still feel the same anxiety I felt like a high school student. One day, I get a call from my high school friend saying she is not doing well. I try to help her, but it doesn’t go well. I decide to write a letter to her.
The protagonist runs into a mysterious being at a bookstore. There seems to be a problem at her house.
A blind woman and a man with cancer meet in a hospital through shared interests. The man, who has lost all hope in life, gradually becomes drawn to the woman's optimism and decides to donate his corneas to her. At that moment, he discovers that there may still be a chance for him to survive. What choice will he make?
Daui is a little girl who realizes that she no longer has her own space after her family starting collapsing. One day, Daui wakes up in the middle of the night and catches her 'doodle whale' trying to escape. "I wanna go home!" After hearing him out, Daui decides to join the adventure.
Solji, an elementary school student, likes Yerin in the same class. She bravely confessed, but Yerin refuses, and Solji becomes a tease. In the meantime, Solji starts a new math workbook and meets Jin-ah teacher. To Jin-ah, who is gently approaching her, Sol-ji opens her heart. However, when Yerin finds out that she is also doing the same workbook as herself, she feels jealous because she seems to be closer to Jin-ah than she is, and fights with Yerin.
Mi-rang and Sam-mi believe in the myth that touching a butterfly blinds her eyes. Mi-rang, who always won first place, one day sees her fellow player Sam-mi turn before her. Mi-rang finally decides to touch the butterfly and become blind.
Bom and Da-Im have been best friends since middle school. However, after Da-Im drops out, Bom becomes the target of bullying at school. On the day of her high school field trip, Da-Im secretly decides to wear her school uniform and join the trip. "What the hell happened to you when I wasn't there?" This story explores complex and subtle emotions that teenage girls can experience.
Peking opera actor Woo Taek takes a step closer to his dream and love by doing a one-man play to comfort a boy he has a crush on.
One day, lyricist Bom(Spring) realizes she is feeling love for Seol-ah(Winter), a singer-songwriter who she works with. Bom, who has been unable to confess her feeling to Seol-Ah, finds out that Seol-Ah made a song with the name of the flower she gave her. Bom starts to write down the lyrics with her feelings for Seol-Ah, but soon she realizes that the song was for Seol-Ah's new boyfriend. With imagining Seol-A singing happily with the lyrics she wrote, Bom leaves Seol-Ah.
We are experiencing the bias and polarization that progress brings. However, people deceive themselves into thinking that everyone is equal and engaged in fair competition. This animation portrays several small episodes arising from this phenomenon in the form of fables. I wanted to capture these five fables in a bittersweet and humorous way.
In a barren land, a girl follows a tiny spirit and sets out on her path. She has only a single seed. If she plants it and makes a tree grow, the blue dragon will awaken and restore the land.
This film begins from what is unseen rather than what is seen. The act of connecting fragments is carried out by the audience. Images that were once unrelated become intertwined, and something unfolds in the spaces between them. That which does not flow is dead. Fragment is a collection of images derived from this sentence.
On a cloudy summer day, Mizo and Modu encounter a large rock that supposedly grants wishes, during their Cub Scout activities. After that day, Modu disappears without a trace. Mizo searches for Modu every day, but to no avail. Then one day, after a long time has passed, Modu returns to Mizo, and says, "I want to be a rock."
Cho-dong is an unknown writer who thinks of himself as a black pigeon. A complex city with people who call ostentatious and foolish tastes beautiful. He calls them peacocks. When Moha appears infront him, his firm beliefs begin to waver. A day of searching to find Moha again, who disappeared before his eyes while avoiding the peacocks. Will he be able to find his own answer about beauty?
Unsolved murder case... the only witness... an AI car?
As Sunjeong prepares for her university graduation exhibition, she has complicated thoughts when she is asked to submit her artist name. In the midst of an ordinary day with her stepfather, brother and mother, she recalls the promise with her mother to change her name when she turned 20.
Returning to Korea from a year-long exchange student program, Ari bumps into Hyunseob again at the theater club, the handsome guy she had crush on for a long time. She seeks for a romantic relationship, but gets frustrated about the way he treats her. To make things worse, a short, quiet guy named Eungyu gets in her way.
An upstairs couple visits their downstairs neighbor because of noise. When they request the downstairs neighbor to turn down the noise, the downstairs neighbor rejects. As they continue talking, unable to find a compromise, the downstairs neighbors start to show strange behaviors.
Yuri and Byung-woo, a long term couple and actors, confront each other’s sincere lies on the stage while performing leads in the play .
Sam-jeom, a lesbian in her 70s, and Lee-jae, a lesbian in her 20s, simultaneously fall in love with Soon-ja, who inexplicably transcends time and space. Lee-jae finds Sam-jeom annoying.
Waking up from a nap in a park in the middle of a downpour, Jo, a young frog, notices that her little brother Gigi has disappeared. He then picks up another tadpole on the way. His mother will probably not suspect a thing!...
Park Sungeum is an elderly woman who lives in a shabby tile-roofed house. The eaves of her roof are sagging, and the utilities have been cut off. When she is not at home, she goes to a local Senior Citizens Centre. The centre is her shelter when it gets bitterly cold in winter. She usually spends a day, however, by the wooden gate at the entrance of her house. By the gate, there is clutter of clothes, dishes, a table and a plastic bag of miscellaneous items. A cat is also leashed there in the dark, and Sungeum cares for the cat.
What began merely as an entertaining performance, the 'Meryl Streep Project' has transformed into an icon of resistance, exposing the realities of women's rights in South Korea. However, following the COVID-19 pandemic, the project has taken an unexpected turn.
The plants and TV screens in Nam June Paik’s TV Garden (1974) maintain their current images without dying, rotting or breaking down through behind-the-scene maintenance and technological replacement. The chickens, virtually released in TV Garden by the artist, are also isolated from other living species or external changes, and live forever free from evolution, reproduction, creation or decomposition. This all seems to symbolize a future utopia in which the ecosystem is won over and maintained by technology. By borrowing the voice of artificial intelligence the Moojin Brothers ask humans who blindly accept technology without resistance if such an immortal life is what they really want to manifest.
Jun-hyeok is a young delivery man at a courier company in Seoul. Every day, he navigates the city streets delivering packages to the more affluent areas. One day, a customer tries to return a package because its contents are damaged. Unsure of what to do, Jun-hyeok takes some time to reflect. Soon, he receives a call from his boss instructing him to discard the package and get back to work. To his surprise, he receives another call, this time from the customer, pleading for him to return with the package. With a simple yet well-executed story, Kyung Seop Chung challenges our perception of delivery workers.
"Have the right number of children and raise them well." This slogan epitomized an era dominated by fears that rapid population growth would impede economic progress. In 1961, with the launch of the First Five-Year Economic Development Plan, Korea initiated its family planning program as a measure to curb the population explosion. Intertwined with various social ambitions and desires, this initiative was deemed "successful" in reshaping society. Today, as we live with the outcomes of this all-out effort for growth, this film revisits the process of "planning" families to reflect on South Korea's future.
Seong-ho, a father from Busan, and Jae-woo, a son who is studying in Seoul, decide to go to Cheonwangbong Peak to watch the sunrise and pray for a job, but the more they climb the mountain, the more they start nagging each other.
After a heartbreaking experience at school, a teacher took her own life. Her father, a potter, was devastated and could not fire his kiln for a long time. 15 months after his daughter`s death, he finally fires the kiln again. As he watches the flames, he begins to sing a song in her memory. Through the very personal story of the deceased teacher`s family and an artist, this documentary delves into the challenges of the education system in South Korea and reveals the path to healing.