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There are five grandmothers, four of whom went to Jeonju Prison due to the Jeju 4.3. All of them were young people around the age of 20 at the time of the incident in 1948. The outline of the incident is formed when hearing the experiences of those who were sent to prison without trial particularly as women. The audience feels indescribable emotions by the fact that they have lived on despite what they had gone through, things that are just too much for a human being to bear.

Goh Jun-chul grew up with second-handed things from a young age. As an adult, he makes his living selling used cars. Having never had anything new, he is proud of his innocent girlfriend. But he starts to understand there are more important things in life than whether things are new or used. This realization helps Jun-chul to regain both love and hope.

Artistic swimmer Seokhee appears strangely composed after the sudden death of her partner Yeong, who was once her perfect counterpart. Yet her body betrays the deep loss her mind has avoided, as she is unable to submerge herself underwater.

The world becomes unpredictable when the pandemic happens. But in the face of despair, people put aside reasons and stop worrying. For these couples from Malaysia, Indonesia, and Korea, even love blossoms. They embrace each other and cling to one another desperately and fearlessly. Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, and Seoul. Three couples in three cities in three countries: The paths of a telemarketer for a loan company and a cart rink owner are destined to cross. A pub owner and a woman with their own background stories. A virgin forklift operator who has never kissed before and a kiss-for-sale manager.

A serial kidnapper is out in the streets of Seoul targeting women...

Chae Ha Kyung gets divorced three weeks after her wedding and becomes a promising wedding planner in the next five years. She is given a mission that will decide the existence of the company; the wedding preparations of Eun Min Se, daughter of one of the biggest Japanese investors of the company. Min Se was brought up without a mother or siblings. Reckless and troublesome, Ha Kyung has a tough time taking care of her and is sensitive enough as it is but she finds out that the groom is no other than the man she divorced five years ago, Seo In Jae. In Jae suggests she puts someone else in charge of the project but she rejects the idea. This project will decide the position of branch manager for her and she couldn't risk it. Ha Kyung tells him instead if he had any feelings left for her, to suck it up and just walk down the aisle. That's the only way she can become a branch manager.

Yeon Park orders a time machine on eBay for her father’s birthday, seeing it as an opportunity to discover a few truths about her family’s past. Yeon responds to her father’s private prints through another distribution of the sensible. Fun and intimate, I Bought a Time Machine uses technology like a mediation necessary for communication.

A mysterious figure experiences an anxiety spiral while walking home from a party.

A man laboring at a swanky restaurant works himself to the bone to ensure his son can afford to study law and become a prosecutor. He feels it gives his own life value, even if it comes at the cost of hurting his son.

Following the body of Park Kyung-seok and the hands of Moon Jong-taek, the film documents Park's daily struggles on the subway and the public outcry over 'inconveniencing innocent people.' Holding his camera, Moon confronts a wall of indifference as they repeat the same fight in an unchanging world.

Young residents of Seoul meet, separate, wait and dream by the Inner Circle Line of the Seoul subway system.

The workers talk about the pleasure of starting work in a shipyard, the pride of making the vessel, and the recognition of workers and the high spirit of their novel struggle. There was solidarity everywhere, even in each other's mind. But there is no more energy in Hanjin Shipyard. The workers have been laid-off and the strike shows no sign of stopping. A 34 year-old worker committed suicide as well. It's the fourth who has become a martyr for the cause. Why have the laborers who worked at Hanjin shipyard separated like this? They are starting to ask themselves why they decided to hate each other.

Chohui, a girl whose armpits grow grass instead of hair, sets out to visit her aunt—the only other woman in her family—after her mother's absence. There, she encounters a new kind of growth.

Middle-aged women start acting and launch a drama club. However, nothing big or small goes right. But they never give up the play.

A woman and a man she claims to be her brother convince a naive employee of a prosperous company to help them steal the company funds, promising to divide the money three ways.

A teenage girl who appears on a TV show as an idol singer's fan calls herself a ‘seongdeok’ (successful fan), because her idol appeared on the same program. Years later, the same idol singer is arrested on charges of gang rape and illegally filming and distributing sex tapes. The seongdeok, who has suddenly become a criminal’s fan, decides to meet with other fans of the criminal singer in a confused state of anger and sadness.

Bungaeman, or Lightning Man, is every Korean kid's superhero! Was he a brave hero from the beginning? Lightning Man and his friends set out on the search of seven lightnings to protect Joy Land! Out come the secrets of Bungaeman from when he was a timid fire fighter who became a super hero!

One day, a tourist goes missing in Japan. There was always a yellow suitcase near the missing case.

A man is driving in the middle of downtown, with his girlfriend, Ok-gyeong, sitting next to him. Ok-gyeong wants to talk about their problem and solve it but the man just wants it to pass by. Their relationship heads toward the direction that nobody expected…

Hyeonjoo wishes to look into the memories of Donghyeon whom she is about to marry. Before Hyeonjoo, Donghyeon had dated a woman named Minyeong for 6 years, and Hyeonjoo wants to erase her from Donghyeon’s memory. She contacts Jaehyeok who runs a mysterious business. Hyeonjoo starts to erase Donghyeon’s memories related to Minyeong, but she hesitates when she sees his last memory of Minyeong.

Kongjui, who had been living alone with her father, welcomes a stepmother and a stepsister called Patchui into her life. When her father is out, the stepmother and Patchui make her do all the housework and the stepmother believes all of Patchui's lies and beats Kongjui mercilessly. When talks of marriage between Kongjui and the son of a respectable family come out one day, the stepmother does everything in her power to get Patchui married to the young man. Unaware of her stepmother's plans, Kongjui runs into the young man in the woods and the two fall in love.

Korean parents' extreme fervor for education is exposed as a child undergoes a tongue operation to enhance his ability in spoken English.

Based on the traditional story of the same name.

On her birthday a teenager adventures off to a birthday party that promises to be a memorable one.

For the latest short film in collaboration with GQ and Vogue, director Lucy Luscombe encouraged Kai—member of K-Pop supergroup EXO—to travel back through time and place, an exercise that proved to uncover personal memories about his family and the origins of his love for dance and choreography.

A girl who receives no birthday wishes picks up a cake knife and sets out for revenge.

Movements that have lost its original frame keep encircling me. Then, all of a sudden, the grains of long-hidden emotions start to stir. When I let out a long breath, it cuts across every moment and reaches the very end of hallucinations, memories of the future are revealed like treasures. Only then does the world go on.

The Korean Academy of Film Arts has produced an animation for 3 consecutive years through a collaborative project. Considering the severe reality of Korean animation in that it lacks an industrial infrastructure, "The House" demonstrates the possibilities of Korean animation and the efficiency of collective production. While comparing apartments in the downtown core to the shabby environment of a marginalized district, "The House" portrays the collapse of the spirits dwelling at the house. As such the adventure of Ga-young and the spirits in the house becomes a criticism of modern society: enlightenment via animation. Although this animation may not have the most delicate or original style, the 5 animators that worked on this film unleashed their imaginations, ultimately showcasing the power of a collective process and a pleasure of the collective imagination.

It depicts the Buddhist philosophy that humans gain eternal life by transcending time by killing their own bodies. This is Kim Dong-ri’s representative work. It describes the process by which "I", who had rejected the ugly appearance of Deungsinbul, gradually approached it through spiritual exploration and identified with it.

In his Mangwon-dong basement art studio, a media artist Song Hojun dreams of making a satellite and shooting it out to space. He wants to make his dream real through OSSI(Open Source Satellite Initiative) movement. He tries to build a BIY satellite, and to sell 10,000 T-shirts for the 100 million won budget. His seemingly reckless and utterly ambitious project begins. Would his dream become real?

The daughter of the boarding house owner and the boarder fall in love with each other. The more their parents oppose, the deeper their love grows. As the opposition from both families grows stronger, they leave the house in search of happiness.

Seung-Hye (female), who has her dream to become a good singer, comes to Seoul and becomes acquainted with Mr. Lee, a bandmaster. Mr. Lee gives her a recommendation letter to introduce her to SeonWoo Kang, a composer. At that time, he intends to retire from pop song world owing to his incurable disease. She is helped by him, and he is also attracted by her beautiful voice to let her become a top class singer. Both love each other. He expedites his death owing to overwork, and finally dies at a hospital in the evening when her recital is held.

Off-frame. A combination of physical shots. A trace of hands joining film with film. A 200-ft lengthy question about 'something' existing between film cuts.

A minor miracle that happened to someone who lost her daughter.

Ga-yeong, who commutes everyday from Uiseong to Seoul in order to attend a scriptwriting class, wants to get closer to her classmates.

The activities of a group of Korean independence fighters in Mongolia, who try to steal a valuable item from the Japanese Army.

Bada and Haneul were transferred to the same school on the same day. They hid the facts that their fathers were the President and a gangster boss but instantly realized they were rivals. Moreover, both of them were attracted to cute Mina. A bodyguard team and a pack of gangsters fought each other to protect the two boys. Later on Bada and Haneul reconciled and became best friends. One day they were happily playing with their friends when the enem..

The pupils of rival martial arts schools attempt to destroy each other using super-martial arts and spells raising the dead.

A man is haunted by the ghost of his murdered girlfriend who tries to tempt him into the underworld. He is also visited by the girls dead mother who is furious with him for loving her daughter.

Opening short film for the 50th Seoul Independent Film Festival.

One day, high school freshman Minzy finds a photo of herself changing clothes in the school locker room. Class leader Hyejin, who is not close to minzy, points out that the new teacher is the suspect to her. Minzy and Hyejin collect evidences to prove that the teacher takes pictures of high school girls secretly. When Minzy and Hyejin report the teacher's behavior to another teacher, Minzy realizes something unexpected.

A UFO arrives on Earth and re-animates corpses in a cemetery. One of the zombies, a little girl who died during a kidnap attempt, orders the zombies to destroy her murderers before they can harm another child. This must be accomplished before it is time for her to leave in the spacecraft.

Ji-Woo meets Sujin for the first time at a camp site and is immediately interested in her. But it is not easy to attract her attention.

In the second part of the dilogy about the brave fighter for justice, Hong Gil-dong, it is shown how he cracks down on a gang of criminals led by the Black Hood.

Sara believes there is no love in his life because his name lacks the letter 'O.' One day, he receives a call from the police.

Back in the days, Choi Maggi an old lady accepted Kim Chunhee as her husband’s second wife to continue the family tree as she has lost her two sons in the past due to measles and typhoon. This story is more dramatic than any drama because even after the death of their husband they live together. The director does a good job in expressing the lives of these two old ladies without any exaggeration. The daily life and relationship of the two ladies eating, washing and working is described in a very detailed script. Through this film you will feel the eager echo of the proposition of life that exceeds the standard of happiness and misfortune. (KIM Youngjin)

Pingpa, a night-shift designer in Bangkok, and Moon-sung, a late-night driver in Seoul. The two are accidentally connected by a misdirected message—and slowly begin to give meaning to each other through an entirely online relationship. But one night, after a minor argument, one of them chooses to vanish from the digital world.

Sori gets scolded by her grandfather because she soaked the blanket last night. The old man is angry with mixed emotions, but in the end, he feels sorry for his granddaughter. Sori, who cannot speak for herself, can only repeat what others say... The postman delivers letters to empty houses and becomes increasingly tired. Sori plays with a scarecrow. The postman and Sori, who meet at the stream, spread their own laughter to the mountains and rivers under the sunset.

Choong Gil is an unknown actor who broke up with his girlfriend and is having trouble with his work. While frustrated, a great thing happened to him. He passed the first audition for a new film by a world-renowned master director. With the thought that this is the last time, he prepares for the second audition. On the other hand, his friend Yi Seul comforts him.

Kang-bi, a freshman in college, always respects his father. However, she finds that one day her father is accused of violating the Food Sanitation Act, and she gradually becomes skeptical of her father. Kang-bi, who is hurt by her, goes on a trip alone. On her journey, Kang-bi meets her friend Dai. Through their journey of ups and downs, they open their eyes to a new experience and realization that they cannot live without forgiving and loving everything in this world

Hyeran is from an orphan, but attends college with the care of the orphanage director. One day she has her body stolen by her manager, who has a black heart, and Hye-ran steals her manager's bankbook and she leaves the orphanage.

The film takes place in contemporary Korea with a slight alteration: in this Korea duels are legal. YU Young-bin is an ordinary office worker - a counselor in his workplace but a veteran swordsman with formidable skill. But the years of dueling have made him weary. While visiting a fencing training center run by his friend JIN Woon-gwang, YU encounters an unpleasant high school kid, CHOI Bon-guk, in whom he sees his own younger self reflected.