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5 boys (portrayed by the K-pop Band H.O.T) live in a futuristic society where they are invaded by aliens by the name of Zeus that wish to take over the world. The only way for H.O.T. to save their society is to win a soccer match against the aliens.

A restaurant delivery boy witnesses the murder of his crush during an internet chat session. He becomes the prime suspect and must catch the real murderer before the police catch him.

Se-ran earns her living by playing the role of her clients’ lover which is called “Dating Service”. Sun-woo who works as a taxi driver, desperately desires to talk to his passengers. One day, Se-ran takes his taxi as a passenger.

One early summer morning, a girl riding a bus along a country road notices a man wearing a straw hat following her on a bicycle. When all the passengers on the bus fall asleep, the girl experiences a vision of the man appearing as a flying Superman.

A man gets hit by a ball. At that precise moment, at the clicking sound of a camera shutter, the whole world comes to a halt. The film is a fantasy tale of our everyday life that gets filled with little moments coming and going, leaving their marks in this lonely world.

So-yeon, who has been studying in Paris for several years, returns to Seoul for summer vacation. She is drawn to Min-hwan, a divorced man whom she met in Paris, but Min-hwan is non-committal and ambiguous about his feelings toward her. Soyeon meets a new guy, Hyun-jae, who is deeply into her, she Soyeon still waits for Min- hwan`s call. She laboriously travels from Seoul to Busan, lugging around her luggage, just so that she can see Min-hwan. After the vacation is over, So-yeon returns to Paris. Even with a full package of beauty and intelligence, So-yeon has no place of her own. In Korea that is familiar but unfamiliar land to her, she spends the summer in bearing her feeling, which is not too hot, yet not negligible. Before the Summer Passes Away is the film about loneliness and longings: it is too shy to roar, too powerful to hide. With minimal narrative, the film shows a close observation on So-yeon`s sense of lose at the edge and her unending desire.

Park-Goo makes a living for himself and his granddaughter Da-Sung by collecting recyclables on the street. Their situation becomes worse when his son is released from prison and steals Park's savings, and his bicycle-drawn cart ― his only tool for making money ― is destroyed by construction workers. Park visits the house of the construction company's head, where he ends up trying to steal meat for his hungry granddaughter. But the meat, which was for the owner's dog, had been poisoned by the housekeeper, who doesn't like her boss.

City Horror is a four-part series of horror movies that were each featured as one-hour television movies in 2002. The four movies include Scream, Stage of the Evil Spirit, The Song of the Dead and the Evil Spirit. Each program is described below: Scream Chi Yin and Run Choi are classmates at a local university and are also lovers. After they take a step into a bizarre ritual, their classmates begin to die one by one. When Run Choi discovers that Chi Yin is the next one, she tries to do everything to prevent this from happening. The secret may lie within their past rituals, but will she be able to find the way before its too late?

On their second anniversary of marriage, Kang Nam-dae and Jang Young-mi get bored with their routine sex. They visit a motel to re-live their first night and record it on a video camera. Nam-dae spoils the moment by bringing up their mutual friend Jae-guk whom Young-mi had dated previously. After reading Jae-guk's book and realizing he truly loved her, she leaves Nam-dae. Two years later, they meet again and go to see Jae-guk.

There is a teenage boy who killed his mother. A detective examines him mercilessly. This film is about the truth behind their unbearable suspense.

Meet Aunt Yang-hee, who has lived as a woman in a camp village. Several voices are heard around the base village, which is serving as a warehouse for American men by the ROK-U.S. alliance. But buried in those voices, it was difficult to hear the voices of the women in the camp village.

One stormy night,ADD(the Agency for Defense Development)is robbed of Korea's top secret files. The MND(Ministry of National Defense)tries to investigate the case, but it appears to be unsolvable. In search of a CD-ROM containing the secret files,authorities direct their focus toward insiders, including Scorpion A-Team, an anti-terrorist squad. KANG Min-sik, second-in-command in the A-Team, is a natural born leader. Although a hard-edged man, he has a soft side for his blind sister Ji-young who lost her sight at infancy. The incident at ADD results in a state of national emergency. Meanwhile, the families of Scorpion A-Team members including Ji-young and Min-sik's mother are murdered by mysterious characters. Ultimately, the full account of the conspiracy is revealed, but one step too late. The A-Team prepares for their ultimate battle during a concert held at the ASEM hall....

Hwa-nyeo and Chung-nyeo, two country girls who have come to Seoul with big dreams. They are thrilled just to see the wondrous Seoul landscape, but a group of thugs, including Shanghai Park, appears before them. Just as they face a terrible fate, a man by the name of Dachimawa Lee appears like a comet. He suavely fights off the thugs and rescues Hwa-nyeo and Chung-nyeo. The two girls become infatuated with his manly image, and Hwa-nyeo and Dachimawa Lee fall in love. Meanwhile, the head of the thugs, the Nameless Man of the East, hears that his underlings have been harshly beaten and decides to make Dachimawa Lee pay. Finally, there is a battle between Dachimawa Lee and the gang of the Nameless Man of the East.

Having saved enough money for a liposuction, Soo-young is ready to leave her tedious job at a local superstore. However, she is faced with a crisis when her boyfriend runs off with the money and her dishonest act at work comes to light. With no-one to turn to, she resorts to a loan shark she met at the superstore.

Based on the famous Korean folk tale, a young princess makes a drastic decision in order to save her father's eyesight.

Ho-sang's car is overturned on a journey with his wife, Min-jeong. She falls into a coma because of this accident and Ho-sang is distressed by her condition. One day, he finds a man's signature on his wife's book titled [Sundays in August] and gets jealous. He finds out that the man and his wife were planning to visit a mountain villa, and he decides to visit the villa by himself. Meanwhile Si-nae, Min-jeong's doctor, is interested in Ho-sang and the book [Sundays in August]. Si-nae calls So-kook in a secondhand bookstore to order the out of print [Sundays in August]. This book reminds So-kook of his dead friend.

A personal and subjective video essay series on the Korean cinema, consisting of 9 episodes. Its episodes include fragments of memory about Korean films and their ‘field’, actual moments of what is happening here and now, and images excerpted from Korean films. [Ep 1] My Chungmuro (2002) [Ep 2] For March of Fools (2003) [Ep 3] Smoking Women (2003) [Ep 4] Kino 99 (2003) [Ep 5] Song of Keumsoon (2004) [Ep 6] The Creative Restoration of ‘An Empty Dream’ (2005) [Ep 7] Reflection on Kim Gu (2005) [Ep 8] Garibong, Again (2006) [Ep 9] A Short Film about Pre-1945 Korean Cinema (2006)

The four high school girls, each of whom has their own personality and appearance, happen to witness the four twins' suicide while preparing for the choir competition.

Jin-su, a 9-year-old elementary school student whose dream is to become a boxing referee, doesn't know why he wants to be a boxing referee, but at some point he started to feel a sense of duty to become one. However, he is suspicious of his father, who has nothing to do with boxing. "Where did the hot boxing referee's blood flowing in my body come from?" Jin-su turns his gaze to the three uncles who used to be around his mother. Seong-jin, Bi-chan, and Wang-gu. They are all uncles who only look at their mother and exercise at the boxing gym that their grandfather used to run. Jin-su sees from these uncles the qualities that a boxing referee must have and learns the whole story. On the day his mother announced her marriage to the three people, everything happened because of that.

A man haunted by a lost love. A spirit who begins to feel too much. As fate draws their worlds together, love begins to blur the line between dream and reality.

In fall 2007 the Women's Film Festival Seoul issued a call that did not promise, like the pirate queen Madame X, "gold, love, and adventure," but something as tempting as the opportunity to film a 15-minute short in Korea, which, assembled as one of six parts of an omnibus production, would open the 10th festival in 2008. I signaled my acceptance and voilà: SEOUL WOMEN HAPPINESS.

One winter day, a girl who was doing volunteer work for the visually impaired goes to a meeting place instead of her friend at her friend's request. There, a blind man is waiting for her friend, and as the girl says that her friend won't come, she begins to feel sorry for this man and worry about him.

Do-young and young-ju are faced with a critical moment on a driving together.

Tae-wook and Bo-young, high school classmates who met for the first time in five years, are reminiscing about those distant times.

Blurring the boundary between dream and reality, fiction and documentary, this unconventional narrative art film integrates ecological footage, medical documentary, and a non-linear story to form a meditation on fear of death and coping with life.

An apparition of a man caught on candid video. Producer Lee Min-hyung in Mokdugi production thinks there is a reason for the ghost to appear on the video. He goes to investigate the motel where the candid camera was hidden. He finds out that until recently the owner of the motel had own a haunted house where whole family was killed. It is a fake-documentary style murder mystery.

Six animated shorts about discrimination and being different. “Daydream” talks about dealing with people with disability. It homes in on the daily life of a father with a daughter whose hands and feet are deformed. “Animal Farm” relies on the rough-and-ready feel of stop-motion clay animation to create a satire of bullying and mob dynamics. “At Her House” paints a devastating picture of gender inequality within a marriage. “Flesh and Bone” gently pillories superficiality and the obsession with outward appearance. “Bicycle Trip” focuses on the discrimination experienced by foreign workers in Korea. “Be a Human Being” looks at the way young Koreans are barely treated as human beings before they get to university.

Only eight out of 36 boys pass the rigorous training at Seoul Action School. They all have different dreams but all wish to become stuntmen. Despite frequent accidents and injuries, they never give up their dream, and the movie follows their hopeful desperation.

A short that shows the pressure to get married that Korean girls in their late twenties have to go through. Ko Ah Rah, however, has her own way of dealing with her mother's insistent telephone calls.

A behind-the-scenes look at the creation of Kim Jee-woon's 2003 psychological horror film 'A Tale of Two Sisters.'

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…

A small village in the Kanwondo region, a 9 year old girl, her brother Tong-gu - who is mentally handicapped - and their father Hyegon.

For Hemi, a boyfriend in a protective suit would be an easy thing to deal with compared to her own problem: she's in love with a Coffee Vending machine! Of course, it all makes perfect sense once you realize that he's actually an ancient Samurai who wished to be reborn into an indestructible steel body. But it certainly makes the dates uncomfortable and somewhat prone to scalding!

Abstract images above the screen can easily bring the audience into a state of immersion. This is because the audience begins to translate the abstract images on screen into their own meaning, as in a process of decoding.

A story about the loss and hope of twenty-something movie lovers who take a rather unusual path. Those in their twenties can go anywhere like a bead. but they lack flexibility on ascension. The twenty-something friends in get a grasp on life and loss and grow through movies, building up the concept of the world.

A trans person is contemplating on the "New Seoul" rising from the "Old and ugly Seoul" while strolling along a river, Cheonggyecheon River in the middle of downtown Seoul, where they meet a talking dog. The two start talking and the dog guides the stranger through a weird multidimensional world. The male side of their personality sees Seoul one way and the female side sees something complete different.

A pictogram of a woman in a toilet comes out to the outside world and reproduces herself. She tries to enter all male-oriented pictograms such as exit signs, elevator signboards and traffic lights.

Jung-in is unable to see off her boyfriend who is leaving for France because she gets food poisoning the day before the departure date. Jung-in is left alone in the emergency room with a letter from her boyfriend telling her not to trust him. The film deals with the growing pains of young people who spend their boring late twenties with expectations for a new love and passion for unchanging ideals. This film captures the beautiful places of Busan as it is all shot there.

While being waiting for the order in the audition hall, Ji Seok, an aspiring actress, is informed that her grandmother is in critical condition and relinquishes the audition and heads to the hospital.

Kim Dae-han (a lively, irresistible college student passionate and impulsive) shatters his vow of purity in a single night. The story takes a turn when Go Jeong-woo, a psychology professor well past thirty and still inexperienced, finds herself unexpectedly drawn to her student.

A man works for the Universe Management Corporation. The man usually works on the earth. One day he goes off to another planet on business. A man gets a job in an architectural magazine company. However, he cannot see the boss who interviewed him for his first three days at work. During this time, he goes through not-so-ordinary experiences in his everyday life at the workplace. The boss comes to him out of the blue and takes him to Wonju with another female employee without notice. Although the boss wants to stay there together for the night, he comes back. A woman takes a trip to Jeju Island by herself.

Recently discharged Chan-Woo receives a letter of will from ex-acquaintance and leaves for her hometown carrying her ashes with him. As he starts to reminiscent about the girl and prepares for her religious service, he meets mysterious innkeeper Jin-Kyung. He senses genuine love from her, discovering matured self in the process.

A student experiences different conflicts as she works toward being a scientist.

On a hot summer day, a man wearing a sweater coughs as he walks. He enters an underground, gruesome restaurant and orders fried rice. The restaurant owner swears to customers who leave food on their plate unfinished and he struggles to finish everything on his plate. The film takes advantage of the short film form and accentuates its merits, taking the story through a dramatic flow in a simple situation with various characters.

A powerful and emotional documentary about Korean women forced into sexual servitude by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II, Silence Broken dramatically combines the testimony of former comfort women who demand justice for the "crimes against humanity" committed against them, along with contravening interviews of Japanese soldiers, recruiters and contemporary scholars who deny the existence of comfort women or claim that these victims "did this for money." In the film, these women demand an official apology, admission of moral as well as legal guilt, and compenstion from the Japanese government. They want human dignity and justice restored to them. The individual testimonies in Silence Broken, combined with unusual archival footage and dramatized images, shatter the half-century of silence and create a collective story filled with soulful sorrow and amazing resilience of the human spirit.

Setting foot in the boundary of adolescence, a blunt and naive boy feels a crush on a girl. She feels the same way, but she pretends not to. The boy thinks riding a nice bike would impress her. When he shows up with his bike, she also prepares something for him.

Jin-young is a student in primary school and a "model student". When her mom brings home a friend to stay at the house, Jin-young falls in love with her at first sight.

Woo Min is a junior in his high school and his father is the president of a large enterprise and lives with his young mother. Though he is rich and talented, he is a humble and ordinary boy who can be found everywhere. He found a true friend whom he can share everything with, Ho Jin. However, their pure friendship is obstructed by Ho Jin's mother since she is not happy with Ho Jin, being obsessed by the fact Woo Min will take over the seat of his father. Ho Jin happened to murder his biological father who had consistently abused her mother, but her mother voluntarily accused herself as the criminal for her son and is serving her sentence. To Ho Jin, Woo Min was like an oasis in the desert, and they became best friends. One day, they planned to secretly leave for New York.

Yeon-joo and Gae-young are the closest of friends, having been members of the same choir for seven years. Then there’s Seo-young, whose mother expects her to make up for her father’s failures. The choir is the only place she can actually breathe freedom. To these girls, a solo audition finds its way.

Three not-so-bright thieves decide to get rich by attempting the most audacious heist imaginable. Their plan? To raid police evidence lock-up and make off with small fortune in cash. Complications arise from the against-all-odds romance between thief Woo-Jin and lady detective Yun-Ah, computer game rivals since childhood.

Jun Oh, a man suffering from severe headaches. With his headaches come some unexpected special powers. Meanwhile, two narcotics detectives stumble upon a corpse under a bridge. And that's when things start to get strange...

This program features three digital short films by Asian filmmakers. Singapore veteran filmmaker Eric Khoo's NO DAY OFF (39 min) records the life of a maid who leaves her husband and baby for Singapore. Darezhan Omirbayev's ABOUT LOVE (38 min) is a bitter love story based on Anton Chekhov's novel, in which a lonely math teacher falls in love with her married university classmate. Pen-ek Ratanaruang's TWELVE TWENTY (30 min) depicts the encounters of a man and a woman on a long haul flight, where they spend the next twelve hours and twenty minutes reading, drinking, eating and watching movies and sleeping by each other's side, as if they are a married couple.

A scary day for a woman.

Part time taxi driver and full time bum Ki-hoon lives one day at a time. His only wish is to live happily ever after with Hyun-hee. One day, Ki-hoon runs over a man while driving at dawn and it is only the beginning of his troubles. That same day, before the car accident, a corrupt businessman's mistress and her lover are hiding in a hotel room after having taken off with the man's dirty funds. But their happiness is short lived when things go haywire due to the man's cronies, cops and mistaken identities. As hitmen, cops, and the two lovers get entangled, one of them runs out with the money. But soon he runs into Ki-hoon's taxi and the man is killed on the spot. Ki-hoon thinks his luck has changed for the best when discovers the cash and leaves it in the care of Hyun-hee as she works her shift in a convenience store. Now the hitmen and the cops are hot on the trail of Ki-hoon. The paths of these unfortunate individuals come to a head at the convenience store.