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This film tells the story of Zen Master Kyeong Heo Seongu who revives modern Korean Buddhism. He cares for a woman who is sick and tired of cold and hunger, but other monks misunderstand it.

A girl draws a circle on the ground. Passers-by step into it, one by one. Soon the circle is full of people.

Set against the glittering backdrop of Seoul, ‘Love Story: Fragments’ intertwines three touching love stories that converge on a single, unforgettable summer night. Yon and Chung Myeong take the delicate first steps of their relationship, while Choo Yon and Kim face the challenges of jealousy that threaten their bond. Meanwhile, Mimì and DonYul grapple with the pain of a final farewell.

There is trouble in a fishing village on a remote southern island. The catch has been meagre and Wang-nyeoni, the local shaman, is on strike: she refuses to perform a ritual to turn fortunes around. In flashback we learn how she married into a shaman (dang-gol) family, tried her best to help her husband succeed as fisherman, but found both their lives blighted by Pan-su, the village boss and main ship-owner. After agreeing to return to duty, blessing the fishing fleet, Wang-nyeoni will serve up cold revenge in spectacular style.

A depiction of the movements and physical characteristics of an infant. Through simplicity of technique, the film seeks a primacy of vision to match the innocence of its subject.

At a discreet host bar in Los Angeles, Kyeong uses his talent and charm to create the illusion of love for the women who hire him. When a new client pays him for a “2nd round,” Kyeong discovers too late that behind her kindly demeanor lies a disturbing request.

In a city shaken by climate change and disappearing habitats, a strange new stick insect appears: TUBULUS PLASTICUS, evolved to mimic plastic straws. What begins as a curious spectacle turns into an eerie presence, quietly disrupting everyday life.

While working in a convenience store to makes ends meet, Yeonhee meet her high school classmate Seolhee. She is mentally handicapped. Everyday thereafter, Seolhee comes to visit Yeonhee at the convenience store.

There it stands, the house, drawn in pencil. It begins to fall apart. Bricks come loose from the wall, the front door falls off its hinges and walls break away. Everything sinks into endless nothingness.

A couple of college students take pity on an ex-convict and try to help him locate his lover whom he hasn't seen or heard from in seven years.

Joon Soo, who decided to move to Seoul to fulfill his dream of being a musician, accidentally meets Hee Jeong, who just broke up, while he was singing a breakup song to a monkey in a zoo.

Beginning as an attempt to document the present by rewinding the past, the film reveals a startling truth: that which has vanished and that which will vanish both persist in the here and now. Traces of what was overlap with the current moment, creating a layered reality where memory and time blur, and the forgotten world asserts its continued existence.

Cheol-hyeon kidnaps Hae-im to steal away bitcoins for him to be able to pay his debts, and his lover Yeon-mi, who has been neglected by him is also imprisoned in a warehouse. Cheol-hyeon uses violence to achieve his goal with Hae-im and emotional violence to seek love from Yeon-mi. His misogyny goes extreme, rationalizing his violence, uncovering the shocking past of the two women, and attempting to shake up their lives.

In the heat of summer, a family drifts through the rural towns of Chungnam, working temporary promotion jobs for mobile phone stores. Their van is both their ride and the only place they call home. One day, a box of phones goes missing. Two months of work suddenly hang in the balance.

The three women are curious about the situation in room 404.

Hyeon-yeong, mother to ten-year-old Jiho, finds herself in a perplexing situation when Seongmin, her son’s friend, vanishes without a trace. Since his disappearance, Seongmin’s mother, Suwon, has begun showing up at their home unannounced.

Mi-young is playing hide-and-seek with a doll. Oh-gun lives hiding his dark history and Min-su follows Oh-gun to revenge. One day, destiny of these three was entwined, and their story begins.

Observes multiple lives through figures who blur the boundaries of identity such as a director, a spy, a traveler, and a woman who can see ghosts.

During the 1996 Gangneung Armed Forces Infiltration Incident, secret agents from the North Korean People's Armed Forces secretly installed a nuclear weapon, Phoenix, in Seoul, the capital of the Republic of Korea. Once caught in the vortex of war. The North Korean coup d'etat forces set off a nuclear bomb in Seoul to take over the entire North Korean regime, wreak havoc in South Korea, and then try to start World War III. At that time (1996), Lee Myung-cheol, the son of Dr. Lee, the developer of the nuclear weapon Phoenix, who learned this fact, secretly infiltrated South Korea and struggled to prevent World War III with the National Intelligence Service of the Republic of Korea. What will be the fate of Korea...

Plot unknown. It was released and screened privately. No further information has been revealed to the public aside from the behind-the-scenes photos & stills posted on Instagram in December 2022.

A man who works at a general facilities center watches a pharmacist in a pharmacy across from his store. The protagonist witnesses a suspicious man chasing a pharmacist after the pharmacist leaving the office, finds out that she is in danger and follows her, but is in a situation where he is misunderstood as a stalker.

On August 30th, 1974,a time bomb set by the "Wolf" brigade of the East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front destroyed the Tokyo Headquarters of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. "Fangs of the Earth" and "Scorpion" soon followed with more bombings. Unlike other leftist groups at the time that sought to seize the Japanese state to build socialism, the EAAJAF were explicitly opposed to the Japanese nation-state, understanding it as an imperialist power in East Asia and a junior partner to American imperialism. Over 50 years have passed since the Mitsubishi bombing; some EAAJAF members have passed, others are still incarcerated, and some have been recently released. In the intervening years, a group of friends and family members stepped forward to support their incarcerated loved ones, answering questions about how to provide long-term prisoner support for people incarcerated by the state and condemned by society.

During the Korean War, Ilhwa, who had been separated from her lover and had defected to South Korea, became a shaman and lived her entire life in the hopes of summoning the ghost of her loved one if he had died. However, time is cruel, and she has not been able to find that person, and she has grown old enough to smell death. One morning, when she wakes up from her bed, seemingly no different from any other day, she finds that all the ghosts she had sent to the South have come out to greet her.

Time has passed since the contaminated water from Fukushima was released into the ocean. Youngnam flies to Jeju Island to clean up his old house. There, he is reunited with his old friend Yurim, who is cleaning up marine debris with her colleagues.

Jong-hun is in his mid-30s and works as a curator at a gallery in Seoul. He visits Pusan several times to meet a woman named Eun-ju. His feelings towards her change constantly every time he goes to Pusan. His several visits to Pusan show every aspect of love.

When a professor files a lawsuit against her over hand-written posters, university student Hye-ri goes to the clubroom to see her friend Min-young, with whom she made the poster. Finding her there with a new member, Hye-ri is caught up in an inner conflict.

Seok-Yong, a 33-year old rapper wannabe spent all his life pursuing for his dream.

Chan Ta is a local businessman who's sure he'll hit pay dirt and make millions someday and he is working extremely hard to become a success, but his dedication elicits the envy of others.

Escaping from a hospital for the mentally disturbed, a man calling himself Jesus goes to Seoul. He feels he must save Seoul from judgement by fire by finding a woman who knows the meaning of true love.

It's a scorching summer. The girl and the boy cannot attend the festivities on the eve of the school festival. Then Kali says to the wandering children: “You know, where the festivities are taking place, as far as the shadow of the sacred tree reaches, young spirits are gathered under it.”

In May 5th, 1991 when the 10th murder case of Hwaseong serial killing occurred, a girl goes missing in Hwaseong (homophone of Mars in Korean). Then there is Chun-hee in Seoul, 2009, living with the eyes of the missing girl. With some help (?) from her father Chun-hee‘s corneas were donated to her in 1991. Yet corneas donation must happen postmortem, a gift coming from somebody’s death. Today Chun-hee works at a real estate agency, showing houses and lands for development. One day she is given the task of introducing lands in Hwaseong, a misfortunate place of past but being developed into a high-tech industrial city now. Then she finally sets foot there in Hwaseong.

Can music truly become a rallying cry? Danpyunsun, a veteran of Hongdae's indie scene, forms Danpyunsun & The Moments and records the album Hail to the Music. "Music must be vulgar!" he cries. But after the December 3 Martial Law, the world proves more grotesque than art. So he shouts louder: to those enduring this world—come with me. Fight!

Fireworks. In Space.

In 2003 Song Du-yul, a philosophy professor, decides to go back to his homeland after spending thirty-seven years in Germany. Within a week after crossing the border, his reputation falls from a respected global political figure to an infamous communist spy. During a five-year-long trial, he was arrested and held in custody. This throws Korean society into turmoil and brings a big conflict between the Conservative and the Progressive parties. The filmmaker calmly contemplates this long period of the incident in detail and depicts a society with an indifferent manner. The story builds through an accretion of whimsical facts and it sometimes brings up uncomfortable truths which will irritate viewers. This film is a camera inside of us that evokes what viewers may have tried to forget.

It tells the story of Ga-young, a film student at university who is not on good terms with her mother. Her mother doesn't expect much from Ga-young, who has been in school for seven years. She often tells Ga-young that she has no talent and her future is unclear. In turn, Ga-young harbours hatred for her mother for belittling and disparaging her. (London Korean Film Festival)

Seong-chun, who just arrived from the countryside, wonders around the Seoul streets, and meets his old friend, Bong-su. He moves into Bong-su's house, where he stays on rent. But the landlord is very nosy. Bong-su lies that Seong-chun is his wife. Seong-chun dressed as a woman and pretends to act as his wife. But one day, Seong-chun falls in love with a girl next door and proposes her.

A documentary telling the dramatic story of Chun Ki-Won, a failed businessman who became a pastor. Over the last 23 years his missionary work has driven him to rescue over one thousand North Korean defectors.

High school students Chi-Hyun and Myung-Soo always takes care of their best friend Kyung-Sook, who is terminally ill with leukemia. Kyung-Sook's last wish is to kiss his first love before he dies, but he has never experienced falling in love. For Kyung-Sook, Chi-Hyun and Myung-Soo look for a girl who could become Kyung-Sook's first love. By chance, they meet Kook-Hwa and they succeed in connecting Kyung-Sook with Kook-Hwa. But, Chi-Hyun becomes heartbroken watching Kyung-Sook and Kook-Hwa falling in love.

Playing on a word-of-mouth strategy of viral marketing, Viral Lingua explores language as a vessel that transmits and mutates political ideology. The film is propelled by a performer who lip-syncs to melodramatic songs, immersed in otherworldly make-ups and hyperreal images of Korean landscapes. The lyrics adapt wordplay and self-loathing satire with wry humour, reflecting the irony of living in a society built upon the histories of colonialism and the cold war. From a Korean patriotic tune lamenting an ill-fated love for a country to a children’s song set in a sci-fi dystopia, the film composes an anthem of a neocolony.

JAEJAE, the witty host of variety shows. Gabee, a powerful performance artist. feellikefeel, an introverted musical genius from YouTube. Three artists from entirely different corners of the stage—brought together by a chance project. Their team? JAESSBEE. No clear plan. No concept. No defined identity. And a production budget of just 3 million won. But they made a choice—to step onto the stage with sincerity. Through trial, tension, and trust, their journey leads to the birth of a debut song: "Every Moment with You."

Jun, who refuses to write his father's decision and leaves home to deliver flowers, helps Da-hee, an aspiring singer from the countryside, who was accused of being a bully, and decides some cooperation in the idea of saving money and lives together.

A high school classroom… The students have pushed their desks out of the way and are busy dancing. It seems that they are conducting some kind of bet to see who can show off the best moves. Once again, Cheol-min takes over and is declared champion for the day. He returns the money he wins but is obviously high on his victory. He preens in front of So-yeon, the object of his affections. So-yeon, well aware of Cheol-min's feelings, only has eyes..