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Yeon-joo despises herself. She can't help picking a fight. She pushes people away even when she doesn't want to. Also, being a lesbian doesn't help the fact that she hates herself either. After a little talk with Mom gone terribly wrong, Yeon-joo attempts to kill herself. Unfortunately, sudden appearance of teacher and Ji-oh (who seem to be in a suspicious relationship), and interruption of Illuminati kid’s mysterious rituals, Yeon-joo's suicide attempt doesn't go as planned.

A remake of Na woon-gyu's 1928 silent film "Looking for Love".

ARCADIA(Ipsuk Bugeun) is originally conceived from a representative figure in Korean literature writer Hwang Sok-yong’s debut novel Ipsuk Bugeun(1962). It was filmed in the winter of 2015 at Towangseong Waterfall, a sacred place in the history of Korean mountaineering located in Mt. Sorak. Ipsuk Bugeun represents the stark beauty of nature, created by the transiently shaped ice walls against the elaborately forged rocks formed through time, and human’s genuine and sublime pursuit to witness the artistry and splendor of nature. The lines excerpted from the novel which depicts a boy’s existential grow through encountering moments of justice, friendship, death and rests in a composed matter are translated synesthetically into Jang’s video. Collaboration with art director Lee Kyungsoo(workroom) the original typeface from the 1962’s Ipsuk Bugeun was adapted to the film and music direction by Jung Jaeil enhances the narrative experience of the viewer appealing to auditory sense.

Min-kyu, who is separated from his girlfriend, goes to Hong Kong. It's a journey to escape from suffering, but Min-kyu's complex mind is rarely solved. Min-kyu tried to leave the hostel. He met a woman as soon as he opened the door. Unlike Min-kyu, who is embarrassed, the woman enters his hostel. After a strange first encounter, his trip to Hong Kong begins as if it is a coincidence.

Min-a survived an unprovoked assault and still struggles with trauma years later. When the attacker, Do-soo is released, Min-a's fears grow, but no one believes her. After friends go missing and her brother is injured, Min-a confronts Do-soo in an abandoned warehouse, ready for a final showdown.

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

A grandfather, his son, and grandson are all henpecked husbands. A comedy picturing these three henpecked men's lives at one family.

A rumor surfaces that the fighting scriptures, 'Dharma's Secret Technique,' written by the Buddhist priest, Dharma, is secretly hidden in a Buddhist temple in China. The masters who love justice and the warriors of the Biryong Fighting Hall search high and low for the scriptures. Seo Chun-wi has come from Koryo to avenge himself against his parents' enemies. Chun-wi becomes the disciple of the greatest fighting master Tae-baek. He receives 'Dharma's Secret Technique' and begins his training. However, Ma Chun-pyo and his gang have been eyeing the scriptures. They put drugs in Chun-wi's tea and defeat him. They seize 'Dharma's Secret Technique' and even kill Ah-min, Chun-wi's girlfriend. However, through incredible efforts, Chun-wi regains his strength and makes a clean sweep of Chun-pyo and his gang. Chun-wi punishes Suk-in, the enemy of his parents, and returns to his home country.

A short film about making relationship choices, and second chances.

A boxer, recently released from prison after serving sentences for throwing a fight and assault, finds his girlfriend dying from a brain tumor.

According to the information written in the credit roll of "Seoul 7000," the film was filmed in Seoul in November 1976 with an 'Elmo 108' 8mm camera using Kodachrome 40 film. It was also stated that "it was filmed frame by frame, and the shooting speed was adjusted differently for each shot," and "the number 7000 in the title of this film represents the total number of frames in all parts except for the title."

Excruciatingly lonely, Junho contemplates suicide. As he’s about to kill himself, a total stranger, Scarlet, unexpectedly visits his home. To stave off his loneliness, Joonho pays Scarlet to spend a few days with him before his death, postponing his suicide and setting in motion a series of ridiculous happenings.

Jiyoung and Jin are the closest of friends. Following a visit to a bar together one night, the two of them decide to have another drink at Jiyoung's house. Out of ordinary, Jin is exceptionally drunk and suggests Jiyoung to a game of truth or dare in the midst of complicated emotional turmoil, thereby beginning a revealing series of truths and dares between the two.

Director Oh Jae-hyeong, a painter-turned-filmmaker who is now trying to become a pianist, attempts a unique audio-visual performance that combines video and piano performance.

The freed Yeong-jin falls in love with a girl who loves him. But Yeong-jin goes on a journey, leaving a note to his beloved: "My love is endless expanses".

Death arrives at the end of loneliness. The lonely woman would embrace even death.

When a high school girl and a young man meet inside a subway, the two start to cry. The black and white film incorporates aspects of documentary filming, by means of inserting interviews throughout the film.

Jiho likes his soon-to-be stepfather who is marrying his mother. Jiho wants to ask his stepfather for the first time to attend an academy. However, his mother turns her back on Jiho and asks him to ask his biological father, who has contacted them after a long time, instead of his stepfather.

The girl longs to ride rollerblades just like the other kids. She is shaken to discover a pair at the scrap yard where the scary old man resides.

A woman and a man are sitting side by side. It is a thoughtful night.

In the last days of the Korean War, Mil-ryeo and Chang-su, two secret agents from North Korea, are ordered to defect to the south to carry out 'Special Mission 8'.

Deok-hee often ruins relationships by being excessively direct. Today, once again, P pushes her away.

Tae-jun, seeing the beauty of Young-hee, was inflamed with passion for her. However, her brother Young-jin prevented him from approaching the girl. By placing Young-jin in a mental hospital, Tae Joon finally has free access to his sister.

1997 revisits South Korea's tumultuous late 1990s through documents obtained from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by the civic organization The Center for Freedom of Information and Transparent Society.

Yeonghwa and Myungjin, studying Korean traditional music at the university, suffer from the death of their best friend Yuna. The Yeonghwa tries to share the sadness with Myungjin, but Myungjin keeps avoiding speaking about Yuna's death, and their relationship starts to creak.

'Daughter of the wind' depicts a story after World War II between a Korean girl who lost her mother to Japanese force and a Japanese orphan girl who had no one else to turn to.

Seo-woo revisits the convenience store she worked for until recently. The store manager who owes her unpaid wages is nowhere to be found. There comes Wal, a new part time worker who speaks in poor Korean and awkwardly greets Seo-woo.

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.

Meet four Taiwanese women, the actual "leftover ladies" fighting to stay breathing in a somewhat stifling society. Since 2012, their friend in common, Chou Tung-yen, has been "stalking" them, capturing on film moments of these women's daily lives.

The head of the religion Baekbaek plunders the believers of the fortune and rapes young women among the believers. A man, who is deprived of his lover by the head, kills him and reveals his barbarous act and discloses that the religion Baekbaek is a heretical one.

So-yi, a dance instructor, works with her beginner class students to prepare for a performance. Her choreography is based on the personal stories of the participants - people who dance, each for their own unique reason.

In the serene embrace of sacred nature, trivial thoughts dissolve away. A profound silence engulfs the mind, stifling even the breath. It is the rediscovery of a lost emotion—'awe,' flowing like a stream. A mother, mourning the loss of her only son, embarks on a daily ritual of mountain hikes. In the ascent, she seeks solace amidst the sacred silence that nature provides. For her, the journey becomes a poignant exploration of the profound and the mundane. A 70-year-old haenyeo (traditional female diver), wise from a life intertwined with the sea, asserts that materiality is both our everyday reality and our path to paradise. Their lives, like the ebb and flow of water, find meaning in the continuous stream. Following the currents, one discovers mountains beneath the sea, whereas within the mountains, the sea continues to flow. Ultimately, the boundaries of the world are revealed to be nonexistent, echoing the profound interconnectedness of all things.

Jeon Woi-ja, the wizard, uses evil spirits to serve his selfish desires. He opposes the Gang-si (frozen corpse) training center, Bubekjang Center, which educates wandering spirits and sends them away. Woi-ja picks the most evil corpses and sends them to the center in hopes of ruining it but without success. When his evil amulets fails to work he chants the eight signs of divination in hopes of getting rid of the gang-sis. But the gang-sis band together to fight Woi-ja and succeeds in reforming him and guiding him to a better path.

It is about life of Princess Deokon who is the last princess of the Joseon Dynasty in 1837.

After a high school graduation ceremony with no visitors, Jisung intentionally misses his bus. At the terminal, he runs into Sunyoung, a substitute teacher whose contract has ended.

Artist Chan-yeong is still haunted by the night, three years earlier, when his girlfriend was raped in front of him. He no longer knows where she is but her sister, Kyeong-mi, makes a sudden appearance to warn him that the incident three years ago was a plot to get his money and the second phase is about to begin.

Sang-hoon needs to complete 4000 skips to enter his home, but his pedometer breaks at 3999.

One night, a man who enters a small bar in Yeonhui-dong and a table are all full, so he joins a woman who drinks alone at the recommendation of bar owner

Fireworks. In Space.

One day, a handsome student, Seungmo who is popular among women sees a strange promotion of a massage shop which provides free oil massage for hot guys so he goes there. As it's his first time to take a massage, his body goes heated up with sensual hands of massager, Doohoon. Seungmo is embarrassed and wants to hide his agitated genitals but Doohoon's massage becomes more provocative.

Shin Jung-Hyeon, Kon-Chi, and Dong-Ho are poor musicians. Since they have excellent ability but don't have money, they don't have jobs. A beauty treats them with kindness. She gives them money for the house and drink, and gives comfort to their minds, too. One day, they grow rapidly into favor. The beauty Shin Jung-Hyeon loves disappears. They thought her a student, but in fact, she is a call girl. Knowing this, Shin Jung-Hyeon sings with almost mad feelings.

On school picture day, Hana is offered ten thousand won for the sock she is wearing. Soon after, for reasons she can't quite explain, the money begins to weigh on her in an unsettling way.

Jang Taesu, a real estate agent separated from his family, is told by the police that his son went missing. It rains on and off throughout the night.

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

Young-bok happens to discover that Bong-gu, his ex-boyfriend who had unilaterally notified her of separation, came to the sea with his new girlfriend, and in a fit of anger, She appears with side-kick at him. She makes a fuss that she can never break up, and he begs to let him go. Young-bok wants to dance right now as a condition of separation.

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.

My mother is Gong-soon. I was ashamed of her name and spent years looking away. In my thirties, I return home with a camera and begin following her at work.

Cinema Gwangju is the first theater in the Honam-region and the only theater that opened in 1935. The cinema has screened films in its original place up to these days. A musician Gonne Choi invites the seven musicians to share "Gwangju-ness" from her own perspective and they visit the cinema to speak and sing about their own "Withstanding and Existing". This documentary also contains the story of the painter Park Tae-gyu, who continuously has been working on hand-painting movie posters from the 1990s until today.

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.