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The hotel overlooks the city hall. The city hotel returns the glance. Glances bounce off each other, become directions and points headed towards, together, and outwards all just one frame apart in between the hotel and city hall.

Hyunji approaches a man with the bait of a survey. The man continues to talk and eventually expresses his interest in Hyunji's seemingly suspicious but pitiful attitude. The moment you think Hyunji's intentions worked, the man makes another suggestion to Hyunji, and Hyunji listens to the man. Nothing is easy. In a world of deceit and deception, nothing comes without a price. The tension rises.

A man seeks revenge on his enemy who kidnapped and raised his child many years ago.

This film seeks to discover the essence of the spirit of seeking salvation through the story of the desperate and lonely pain of a monk wandering for enlightenment and fundamental human problems in his wandering life.

Chandigarh stands as an anomaly amongst the chaotic Indian landscape. Designed by Le Corbusier in 1964 as a utopian vision of what modern independent India could be, his obsession with straight lines and ‘form follows function’ is evident in the urban design of the city. In 2020, the director visits his parents in his hometown of Chandigarh trying to resolve an ongoing disagreement over his life choices. Over this time spent at home where moments of gentle affection seem to be punctuated by a total communication breakdown, the filmmaker starts to suspect that the city might have a more insidious role to play in this unravelling situation. As he spends time within the grid of the house, the larger grid structures around him start becoming apparent. Could it be possible that the design of this city suppresses individuality, which threatens its ideal of order and coherence?

Lin, a migrant female worker from Cambodia, and Yeon-hee, a Korean, are friends who work together at a factory at night. One day, the two will go to the sea together for the weekend. However, the factory manager only forces Lin to work overtime on the weekend, while Lin finds out that Yeon-hee is leaving Korea for Australia soon.

Kim Eun-hee, 26-year-old, face to face with memories she’d rather forget from her 11-year-old self, she begins the match for existing as herself.

The life story of Ch'oe Hong-hui. Also known as General Choi, he was a South Korean army general and martial artist who is a controversial figure in the history of the Korean martial art of Taekwondo. In 1972, Choi went into exile in Canada and lived in Toronto until his death in North Korea in 2002.

A visually impaired woman in her 50s and an 18-year-old girl walk the Camino de Santiago. The older woman, Jae-han, is a masseuse who can only make out the dim outlines of things. She is accompanied by a girl named Da-hee. Jae-han dreams of presenting her own style of flamenco in front of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela after completing the pilgrimage. However, the journey, which began with a vague longing, turns out to be much more difficult than either had expected.

A handsome swordsman is in love with his teacher’s daughter. However, a student has been promised her hand in marriage. A fight leaves the young Jedi with two less arms. The armless vigilante takes refuge and plans revenge on those that wronged him.

Everyone dreams of being a pop star. But the Korean showbiz isn't only fame and glamour. For Mira, a young girl about to make her debut with a girl group, the dream turns into a nightmare. Always smiling in front of the camera, but pressure, competition within the group, and a busy schedule are taking their toll. And if that weren't enough, somebody seems to be threatening her. Or is it all just in her mind?

Minseo, a 17-year-old girl, got asked out by her best friend Yujin. Minseo Couldn't turn her down clearly because of her weak-minded and insecure condition, and Yujin misunderstands it as positive sign.

The story of the protagonist and the people around him who try to earn money by doing various things to save his ailing lover.

Late one night, Jeong-seok and Sae-young meet on the subway. They can't seem to understand each other.

After graduating from Joseon school, ✕✕ enters a South Korean university. Jihoon meets ✕✕’s family and friends, sharing meals, drinks, and songs together. Through these interactions, he naturally grows closer to ○○, △△, and ◇◇, listening to their memories of Joseon school and their lives in Japan. These exchanges erase the space of everyday life and question the sense of mission imposed in its place: For whom is it really when we label those living ordinary lives with ‘identity’?

Simple school teachers Koh Young-woo and Choi Il-yeop love each other and do their best to teach the illiterate. However, he is despised by the village elders. Seeing that their will does not waver at all, the village elders understand and cooperate.

Shinyoung is preparing for a 9th-level civil servant position at the goshiwon. One day, when Shinyoung opens her eyes, her body is a cube. Shinyoung is transferred to the research institute and used as research data. But the lab can´t figure out anything.

Adopting mainly hand contact printing with photographic enlarger, «Metaphysics of sound» started from September of 2006 and completed in July of 2007. With a 35mm soundtrack image, I made a hand-drawn soundtrack on the 16mm film strip. The sounds were made either by directly contact printing the 35mm sound tracks or collaging the scratch images. According to pattern of sound on the 20% blank of 16mm film strip (normally used as space for optical recording), I edited whole image and made structure of film. Hence the margin is a where image is sound, and vice versa. Later, I studied the sound patterns which varied according to the kinds of images used or the concentration of the image, and made various attempts at rearranging the structure of the sound with the image.

By chance, two men open their hearts to cats on the street. One man is a poet and traveler, the other man is a CF director. The poet takes pictures of cats on the streets every day. The CF director follows the cats with his video camera and meets people who feed the cats on the street. These two men begin to feed and name the cats they see often. The men get closer to the cats, while they observe, that often, the passersby look at the cats with unfavorable gazes. On a whim, the men decide to make a movie on these street cats.

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A public worker wants to live a good life, but there are those who seek out the help of the mob in pursuit of wealth and power.

Kim Jeong-mi wanders the streets due to the death of her loving father and the remarriage of her mother, and is unexpectedly kidnapped by Park Man-soo. Jung-mi is imprisoned in Park Man-soo's apartment. She tries to get out of her apartment by Jeong-mi, but she can't get over Man-su's tactics, and she becomes a partner in the crime. Man-su sacrifices himself to save Jeong-mi, who is in her crisis, after her first crime fails. She finds that Jeong-mi discovers a different side of her Man-su, and she entrusts her body to Man-su without even feeling her love. Seok-gyu, Jeong-mi's ex-lover, encounters opposition from her parents due to the bankruptcy of her Jeong-mi's house. Man-su threatens Soo-kyung and Seok-gyu, who are trying to find her Jeong-mi. At Seok-gyu's plea to save her fiance, Jeong-mi again joins the plot of Man-su's big crime.

After Seonjo passes away, Prince Gwanghae ascends to the throne. But he indulges himself in dissolute orgies, neglecting his duties as the king. Queen Dowager Inmok begs him to behave like a king. But Prince Gwanghae torments her, arguing that she's playing a regent. Queen Dowager cannot help but enduring the king's outrageousness.

After her father, who lived with a young stepmother, died, a stepmother who lived with her stepson. The son sees a young and beautiful stepmother as her woman...

Wanho and Kyunghui go camping, but Gwisun secretly loves Wanho. After an accident, Wanho and Gwisun fall in love. When they return to Seoul, Gwisun's life takes a drastic turn. Just as she contemplates suicide, an unexpected twist alters her fate.

Two cars are smashed on a quiet road in the middle of nowhere. Sung-hoon lost his wife and daughter in the accident, but Tae-soo has no problem. Can two people in different positions understand each other and move forward?

Jeju authorities felled about 900 cedar trees on Bijarim-ro for a road expansion project. Citizens exposed the project's flawed environmental impact assessment, leading to its suspension. They continued efforts to protect Seongsan, slated for the second airport, and Bijarim-ro. This documentary follows the journeys of five women involved in this movement.

A sci-fi fantasy film about aliens living together while punishing the crimes committed by Earthlings.

The film depicts the reality of Joseon at the time through the conflict between the old and the new generation and the ethics between father and son. Park No-in (Yoon Bong-chun) is a boatman who believes in his profession. He intends to pass the ferry he inherited from his ancestors to his son (Lee Geum-ryong). But he doesn't want to be a boatman. When his father's compulsion grows stronger, one night he goes out alone to the riverside, caresses the oar stained by his father's hands, and then abruptly leaves.

This film introduces Professor MAENG Sunglyul at Woosuk University, the author of UFO Syndrome and a scientist researching into unidentified flying objects. That he is criticized for seeking enjoyment in challenging times reveals the ambivalent gaze of the public towards his study of UFOs. As an explorer of the unknown, he doubts the existence of UFOs, while at the same time considering uncharted or undiscovered territories beyond those defined by mainstream science. In the same vein, the film makes no attempt to draw quick conclusions about UFOs. Rather, it calmly conveys moments of communion between scientific approaches and people’s curiosity of the unknown. Now, it’s time to draw a sketch of UFOs.

The baseball teams of Gwangju Jeil High School and Hwasun High School play a game, and an insurance planner from Kyobo Life Insurance makes a call to the owner of Whirlpool Laundry. Boys of an acting school listen to music from a smart phone. The film staff shoots the scenes.

A young girl develops a crush on the family employee, but she must help him clear his ex-wife's name of murder.

The title refers to three “female-to-male” men. Ko has been taking hormones for 8 years in the belief that he must become completely “masculine” to be accepted; Han has her breasts removed as part of a process of becoming “ungendered”; while Kim finds that his new male legal identity only opens up new confusions.

The story of Ferdinand, a former darts champion who still has a fierce competitive spirit.

A woman who cannot cross the crosswalk. Why?

Jang-hwa and Hong-ryeon die an unfortunate death from their stepmother's abuse. Jang-hwa's soul is unable to rest at peace and she appears in front of the district magistrate pleading for justice in her case.

Immediately after liberation, an incident called 'Jeju Uprising' took place on Jeju Island, the Hawaii of Korea, under the control of the US military government. As a result, about one-tenth of the total population of the island at that time was sacrificed. The children who survived the massacre record the memories of that day in an animated film 70 years later.

A husband feels bored in his 9 year marriage. To add spice to his marriage, the husband composes a love letter to his wife. He doesn't sign the letter, thinking his wife would know who sent the letter. Because of this anonymous letter, the couple encounters unhappiness.

A small intersection on the outskirts of Seoul, those who want to keep it and those who want to take it away. The tense confrontation and the realistic action of the gangsters in their tumultuous life history.

An 18-year-old boy named Haewon hates his father for being unfaithful to his mother. In the same apartment block, Ha-young becomes an orphan after her father passed away. One night, they decide to take revenge on the irresponsible adults.

The 1999 game "Elancia" marks its 21st anniversary this year. Due to lack of management, various macros programs and cheats are rampant, but few users are still left in the game. Why can't they leave Elancia? "My Sister Jeon Ji-hyun," a user of Elancia for 16 years, stepped out of a stuffy room with a camera to answer questions about why others are still playing the game.

Young-gu is cursed to be an ugly beast of a fool and given a chain of blue beads. He must marry a true love before the blue beads turn white, so that he can return to his original form...

The film shows humanity and sincere love, opposed to the old conventions. The story of the mute Samyon, who works for a landowner and is in love with the owner's daughter-in-law.

Two children vow revenge for the death of their parents. Eighteen years later, they meet again to carry out their promise, but one of them has been blinded by their enemy.

Sometimes, the void becomes a passage to the invisible. The film is a journey in pursuit of that which saturates the forest yet eludes human perception. Flashes and darkness, punctuated by fleeting hues, conspire to capture presences that linger between the present and the yet-to-come. Surrendering to the film's orchestrated rhythm rewards viewers with unprecedented imagery. (Sung MOON)

This film creates a "video mixtape" by assembling fragments from over 50 films produced by the now-defunct Korean film company Nama-jinheung between the late 1960s and early 1990s. Through these carefully curated scenes, it captures the inner landscape of Koreans during the Cold War and the era of rapid economic growth, offering a unique reflection of a nation in transformation.

Park Dongsu is living on his own after leaving the disabled facility where he first started writing poems. While having a hard time writing poems, he buys a fish called “corydoras.” Looking at the fish for a long time, he falls asleep and dreams of where he used to live. Then he heads there to find traces of his poems.

Simon, a painter, regains the use of his hands thanks to therapy administered by Ren. Later, when Simon is kidnapped by communists and forced to paint a portrait of Stalin, Ren again helps him by assisting in his escape. Simon's wife, however, is less than pleased at their growing friendship and becomes determined to keep them apart.

A man travelling to Seoul to find his lover becomes a phony detective and pickpocket and goes on some wacky adventures.

Kang Doo-Sub (Lee Won-Jong) is a gangster and people are afraid of him. One day, he finds a female high school student ghost looking at him. He freaks out and tries to get rid of the ghost, but, no matter what, the ghost is still there. Kang Doo-Sub turns to a private detective.