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Father KIM and Hyung-woo, a sixth-grader, travel together to the quiet village of Boriwool. Kim is going there to start his priesthood as pastor of Boriwool Church, Hyung-woo to see his dad Woon-ahm, who left his family six years ago to become a Buddhist monk. Hyung-woo feels awkward with his dad and becomes bored with living in the country. Father Kim also finds some of his flock quite antagonistic to him. Meanwhile, the village kids coached by Woon-ahm play the church orphans in a soccer match. After the orphans are beaten soundly, Father Kim begins coaching them...

Dong-Hwa is a complete loser, whose first novel called 'I met Kafka' brought the publishing company bankruptcy. To bring home the bacon, he tries to drive a taxi but only ends up running over someone. One day Dong-Hwa is offered a job to do ghostwriting for a CEO named Man-Chul, who turns out to be the ringleader of the biggest criminal syndicate in Korea. Dong-Hwa soon finds himself perfectly at ease in the mob, while Man-Chul starts learning about the other part of the world.

Hyeon-seong, a film director struggling with writing a new screenplay, visits a remote southern island he stayed 10 years ago to fulfill a promise he made with his girlfriend at the time. As he waits on the secluded island to see if the promise will also be kept by now his ex-girlfriend, he gets to know an oddly charming young motel operator So-yeon.

In 1592, Japan invades Chosun (the ancient name for Korea). While thousands submitted to the foreign rule, Non-gae encourages General CHOI Kyung-hoe to love her, so that she can behead him. In 2007 Korea lovers Seung-hyun and Young-shin are also botanists in search of a legendary flower believed to absorb human souls. During their mountain trek, they encounter Jae-jin a stranger who insists he knows them both. Jae-jin’s presence has a strange effect on Seung-hyun, whose bursts of insanity eventually threaten Young-shin’s life. Eventually Seung-hyun finds himself in a struggle to death with Jae-jin. The film is a fantasy motivated by a historical story of Nongae and the idea of Buddhist transmigration of souls.(KOFIC)

In the early 80s, in a small barbershop on the outskirts of Seoul, there is a barber with a small stature just like the size of the barbershop. When there are no customers, he cleans up the barbershop, drinks tea, and enjoys listening to the radio, which reads sad stories, and is moved. The neighbors of the neighborhood visit him without any burden and share their stories. Sometimes, the neighborhood trio (Mr. Gu, Mr. Jeon, Mr. Park) tease him for being a woman, but the barber just smiles. One day, the barber gets into an argument with Mr. Gu, the owner of the hole-in-the-wall shop, due to a misunderstanding, and when Mr. Gu blurts out the word “woman,” the barber has a big fight with Mr. Gu. Morning comes as always. As usual, the barber’s wife tightly bandages the barber’s bulging chest. And the barber, she, rides her bicycle to the barbershop, hiding her hidden chest.

Writer Lee Yun-ho was the son of a traditional music drama family and met Hanako who had visited Cheongju to learn gayageum. Hanako passed away, leaving her 12 year-old daughter Yumae. Lee Yun-ho lived with her and his old father. Sora, a friend of Hanako, had loved Yun-ho for a long time and took care of his family. However, Yun-ho still had Hanako in his heart and consoled his lonesome heart by loving his daughter Yumae.

After a photoshoot in a secluded, forested area, all five band members are told to rest in the house they are staying at. Xiah, who desperately wants to play football, drags Max outside to play with him. Both get hurt and are rescued by a mysterious girl, who provides a place for them to heal from their injuries. However, they soon discover that she will not let them leave. Back at the main house, Micky is in his own world, extremely worried about his lost band-mates. Hero, after reading a fanfiction about his supposed romantic relationship with U-Know, becomes anxious about why U-Know is suddenly being extremely nice to him.

Uncompromising and shocking portrayal of the life of a French pimp and his wife exploited by him as a prostitute, who stay together in an almost post-apocalyptic post-industrial landscape. Shot on grungy Super-8. The first hour focuses on the everyday activities of the man and woman. They consume cheap food, watch TV and nasty porno, they receive customers and combat each other with psychological power games. Despite emotional numbness, the woman tries to escape. She makes friends with another woman, but then decides that returning to the man is the easiest option. The return of the other woman heralds the very shocking finale. Not for the squeamish.

Two women meet in a local police station of Kangwha, a terminal unit of patriarchal authoritarian police department of state. They are connected through conversation of sharing wounds at heart in bureaucratic and result-oriented masculine system.

Baek-i used to be known as the best fighter in his high school along with Hyuk and Jul-byuk. They clashed constantly with ‘The Picks’, a gang led by Jin-han. They were always better than the Picks. Twenty years later, Baek-i’s crew, now nearing forty, meet for drinks. They mull over the news that Jin-han donated a scholarship to his high school, even though he had been expelled. And when Baek-i's friend Hyuk and Jul-byuk get beaten up by the members of the Picks for a trivial reason, a new situation arises. The old bachelor Baek-i falls in love with a woman named Jin which complicates relations among everyone.

Angels land on earth in human form with a simple assignment: escort an old lady to her final resting place. But first they enjoy a drink. The angels sense a long-lost connection with Mi-yeon, the bar-owner. The old lady goes to Sok-chool, the shaman to ask him for a gut, a ritual to mediate between the living and the dead. She may want it for her late husband who appeared to her in a dream or for her son Yong-taek who took his own life. The shama..

Two rival gangs decide to send two men each to a rural hotel to force the owners to repay their debts, but they underestimate the will and resourcefulness of the hotel staff.

Mangchi is a young boy with few problems and an easy disposition. Living on a building in the middle of the sea, he flies around on his little flying bike looking for adventures and longs for the day when he's finally an adult. So, when a princess named Poplar is being chased by two fighter planes, he rescues her. Little does he know that he will be pulled away from the city he has lived all his life, and dragged by Poplar into an adventure smack dab in between two countries at war and the evil plans of Moonk, usurper to Poplar's throne, who seeks world domination.

In 1992, political prisoners from North Korea settled in the South Korean town where filmmaker Dong-won Kim lived. Sent to South Korea as spies during the war, they spent 30 years in jail. How did they endure the many years of torture? What will become of them now that they have been released? Twelve years in the making, Repatriation is a very personal view of a country divided by an ongoing cold war.

A man is investigating an assassin, who turns out to be his own girlfriend.

Three lifelong high school friends in their thirties: Eun‑a, Jin‑hee, and Hae‑sook pursue careers as a comedy writer, TV drama writer, and documentary producer respectively. Their personal and professional lives intersect in humorous, heartfelt, and candid ways. Personal relationships, with topics like cohabitation, changing lifestyles, and hidden secrets: challenge their independence and views on love and marriage. Eun‑a’s decision to move in with her partner, Dae‑seong, triggers change in their circle.

A Korean immigrant falls in love with her best friend while navigating her way through the challenges of living in a new country.

David is a young boy who spends his time passing up on his older brothers, looking after the herd and playing the harp. One day the prophet Samuel announces he will be the future king. Due to his curse the present king, Saul, is possessed by evil spirits. On hearing that the sound of a harp will cure him, king Saul's son Jonathan brings David to the palace.

Dokdo is an easternmost isle of Korea, but Korea’s sovereignty over the isle has been challenged during its long history. This film portrays people who love this isle and their efforts in informing Dokdo to the world.

In order to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Korean Film Academy, 20 of the academy's former students (who are respected director's today) were invited to shoot an omnibus movie consisting of 20 short films. Overall this work was very well received by the critiques at the 17th Tokyo International Film Festival. The films include Twenty, Secrets and Lies, Looking for Sex, Race, A Runners High, Neighborhood, My Baby, It's different On Mobile Queen, At 2 O'clock and Sink & Rise.

The film is counterbalanced between two interrelated parts. The first part takes place in Los Angeles, and is centered around a Korean female student, Gah-in, who is studying in the US. She is having a sexual affair with a married man named, Jun. The second part is about Jun's wife, Do-hee, which takes place in Seoul, Korea.

Yu-chol is an unknown writer. People don’t like his works because they are not public-oriented. His parents died in an airplane crash. Despite his lack of success as a writer, he is financially secure from money obtained from an insurance company. However, he is lonely. He secretly lusts after the woman next door, who has a husband and children. Misunderstanding the woman’s kindness towards him as mutual love, the psychotic man decides to “rescue” her from her husband.

The skeletons of three murdered victims are found. Detective Kang (Bang Moon Su,Seducing Mr. Perfect) gets fired from his job when he questions his superiors' decision to close the case as suicide. He decides to carry on the investigation on his own.

For Hee-chul, a deliveryman, his future is unclear. His father, who comes to see him, is a violent alcoholic, and it is his grandmother who cooks for him. One day, Yeon-ju, a college student in a similar situation to Hee-chul, asks him to play the lead role in one of her short films. Hee-chul dreams and hopes for the possibility of finding a new relationship through film. But reality belies his dreams. His grandmother, who is tired of the grim reality of life, leaves a note saying that she can no longer live with him and moves out of his house to begin a brand new life. And soon after, his father gets involved in bad financial dealings and becomes a wanted man. Hee-chul realizes that he cannot rely on his family or lover and turns to the faint hope he holds for film-making.

Nineteen year old Hyun Woo is thrilled when he meets his new art teacher Seon Ah, who happens to be his longtime boyhood crush. The two first met when Seon Ah was teaching as an assistant at Hyun Woo's middle school and ever since, Hyun Woo has held a special place in his heart for his 27-year-old teacher. One day, Seon Ah gets into trouble after being caught smoking in a classroom by a fellow teacher. But when Hyun Woo readily takes the blame for her misdeed, the two become closer than ever. Trapped in a relationship that has become boring, Seon Ah finds Hyun Woo's innocence and raw passion irresistible. As love between the two takes center-stage, reason and morality took the backseat.

Eight martial arts masters trained in a variety of different fighting styles are summoned to the mountains for a fierce competition.

Ureologist Ha-yeong decides to show the men around her that she does not need a husband by choosing to be artificially inseminated.

One of the greatest heroes of the Bible, King David of Israel has stood as a beacon of strength through the ages. Long before Jesus Christ was born, the ancient Kingdom of Israel was ruled by David. This wonderfully animated story depicts the hardships, battles (including the young David's legendary face-off with giant Goliath) and love lost and recaptured during the eventful life of Israel's most honored king.

Part of the Insight Asia series, 'Asian Corridor in Heaven' is a six-episode documentary series about the world's oldest trade route, the "Ancient Tea and Horse Caravan Road". Pre-dating the Silk Road by 200 years, the Ancient Tea and Horse Caravan Road crossed from the Sichuan and Yunnan provinces of Southwest China over mountainous terrain into Tibet, Nepal, and India.

Two young gangsters move into Incheon with the intent of taking over, but they come up against unexpected opposition from the madam of Incheon's leading hostess bar.

Gon-bong cut the leg of a competing mafia group's boss and got on the bad side of the number two of his own group. Out of desperation, he jumps in front of Sae-ju's car. Sae-ju is also suicidal, a former doctor who lost his wife and child due to his mistake. He meets Jae-rim who has a terminal disease but remains optimistic. They all lead very different lives, but they feel curiosity about each other.

In the Arctic, the sun never sets in the summer while in the winter, this icy, northernmost area is enveloped in darkness. A place where aurora lights cascade from above and exotic creatures live in the bitter cold. However, the ice in the Arctic is melting away today. Tears in the Arctic sheds light on the dire problems that our planet is facing as the inhabitants, wildlife and environment in the Arctic are under siege. The plight of the Inuit is covered to show how the natural way of things may come to a screeching halt with catastrophic consequences for our planet. The changing situation for the wildlife and people who inhabit the Arctic are documented in detail. Are people taking notice of the warning signs of climate change that could lead to disastrous results?

A witty and heartwarming portrayal of humanism during a life-threatening crisis, the film tells the story of a soldier set against a little girl on the enemy's side during a war.

In a month, Mi-hyeon visits Weon-kyu, who lives in the provinces. Mi-hyeon, 33, and Weon-kyu, 18. In the inn, the uneasiness of their relationship explodes, but they realize each other's affection.

The live performance DVD of 'Rising Sun,' TVXQ's first solo concert since their debut! A record of 30,000 seats selling out in just one minute!

Donghwan is unemployed. One day, he applies for a quiz for a no charge airline ticket on the Internet. The next day, he receives a phone call asking him to come to an office in Jongno-gu, Seoul because he has won the quiz, where he will receive the free round-trip ticket to Thailand. But for getting free tickets, he has to pay a high price there...

One day, a girl customer starts telling sexual jokes to a blind acupuncturist. Her visits create a sensation to his monotonous life and awaken his hidden desire. The blind acupuncturist slowly falls into a fantasy of the Brazilian Carnival and faces its fever in his reality...

A painter and a female student form a delicate relationship which exhibits both artistic and evil impulses.

This documentary is about the 3rd and 4th generation Korean residents of Japan who are students of Chosen elementary, middle, and high school in Hokkaido. It follows the students through one year of the eventual 11 years` national education. Rather than focusing on special occasions or issues, it reveals what it is like to live in Japan as Korean-Japanese by describing their everyday lives.

On a hot day in a blind alley, a police officer and a laborer, both who have fallen behind from their units, are confronting each other. What they are wearing represents their status and makes them an enemy to each other. Their situation becomes sad but comical as their tiresome day goes by.

Time-Consciousness offers four mutually contradictory versions of a series of events. The constant factors are a middle-aged poet with a gammy leg, a prostitute who may or may not be dead, and the woman’s humble room (which may or may not be tidy), where the poet does his writing. Asking "What did happen at 9:20 that evening?," the film underlines the unreliability of memory and the impossibility of objectivity.

My Small Doll House features a woman’s fear, fantasy, and anxious psychology toward the world by contrasting a doll and a girl playing with it in a box. The small box is a safe place hidden in her deep conscious world, but she must open it and step out of the world.

The Lark Ascending

Snooze buttons, sunlight…the inescapable cacophony of alarm alerts: waking up in the morning is a battle between the present and the future state of mind. A dream-like war with yourself and other objects that seem to take a life of its own.

A fisherman, Young-Chul, who lives on an island, arrives at a city in the hot summer to show a white shark to his friend, Joon-Goo. Joon-Goo who is busy gambling somewhere does not show up, and the shark in Young-Chul’s bag is going bad. Yoo-Soo, who Young-Chul ran into at a park is released from prison and wandering from street to street not knowing where he can find his house. A crazy woman, Eun-Suk praying for rain in the middle of the park under glaring sunshine starts to chase Young-Chul and Yoo-Soo. She thinks the stink of the rotting shark is her dead baby’s smell.

A film about the troubles of Korean youths teetering on the edge of poverty, their struggle is to survive the mounting debts and the hopelessness of their situation. Among them is Kim Byung-Seok, an aspiring filmmaker who's stuck in dead-end jobs and his camera is only used for filming weddings. His girlfriend, Jae-Kyung, has trouble finding jobs and is fired for being "too depressing". Although they've coped in the past, recent conflicts and frauds have pushed them to desperation, making the future look bleak.

Chapter 1. A Strange Woman A young film director 'P', trying to make a film based on a short story by Nikolai Gogol, meets a mysterious actress in an audition. Her overwhelming gift however, being obvious to everyone including 'P' himself, increasingly gets on his nerves in an ominous way. Chapter 2. VIY A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of witch in a small old wooden church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him. Chapter 3. A Curtain Call A blind musician Henri PARK, who plays at a whorehouse, meets a group of marionette artists, preparing a play based on . His suspicious roommate follows him one night, just to find out that Henri is playing the piano for ghosts, in an abandoned church.

"I'll Be Seeing HER" is an approach to images of women in Korean cinema with a new genre, ‘Fanta Docu’, which shows beautiful and adventurous Korean actresses in the 1950s. The director, Kim Soyoung stated that “studying and teaching Korean cinema history, I felt sorry that most documentaries on Korean cinema had been made from the male perspective,” which led her to make a documentary on Korean cinema through women’s eyes. Kim So young directed ‘Women's History Trilogy’ (Koryu: Southern Women, South Korea, I'll Be Seeing Her: Women in Korean Cinema, New Woman: Her First Song) which was screened at many international film festivals including Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival.

Akihiro, who lives in an old apartment building in Tokyo, makes songs and sings on the streets; Fei, a street musician who makes a living making a living by making the Iranian traditional instrument 'Daf', but does not neglect to play every night; A film director who travels around Seoul with a digital camera .

A documentary which follows a group of siblings who eke out their existence from the offerings and other goods found in the sacred Bagmati River.

With just one punch, a foreign merchant named Ronny (Mahbub Alam) knocks out In-Ho (Yu Jun-Sang) during one of his Taekwondo training classes. In-Ho then goes to find Ronny to recover his dignity. However, what comes next is separation from his wife and being imprisoned..