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It's been more than 1,000 days since the workers of Cort/Cortek Guitar begun a struggle after the company abruptly closed down. Meanwhile, musicians performed for the workers so many people are aware of the company's injustice, but the company has yet to respond. The workers visit international instrument expositions all around the world, meet other guitar companies such as Fender and Ibanez who subcontract with Cort, and share the struggle with them. The workers also align with musicians in Japan and the USA. They achieve international solidarity through music.

An old man and a fat cat live in a small house in the middle of a vast ocean. Their daily task is to push back the black sea that covers the blue sea. One day, a bird and a terrible storm descend upon them...

Why on earth should we use the state-authorized textbook? Many history scholars share their opinions about the nature, background and significance of the book and why history is forcibly imposed.

What if the most inconvenient things were uncovered? I consider myself useless whenever I see the traces of my loathful father on me. The house of my home is not a space for rest, but one for sense of guilt. In there, I put myself into the swamp of self-hatred. The hatred for my father grows bigger when the object of my hatred is directed back to myself. Why should I struggle so hard to be understood by my father, the most useless existence to my understanding? Can I ever run away from myself who finds me through my father?

After finishing a grueling shoot, Jun-sang heads to Mongolia in search of inner peace and tranquility. The journey to the desert is not easy, and Jun-sang struggles to figure out where he is going and which direction is the right one on the many roads he encounters. Upon hearing the sudden death of someone he met the day before he came to Mongolia, Jun-sang falls into deep thoughts about life and death. Did Jun-sang find peace when he reached the summit of the windy sand dunes? Boom Boom Boom, Did I find peace on the bumpy road?

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

Based on a Korean traditional tale of an angry and greedy older brother and a kind younger brother.

Sun-Il (Yoo Son-Il) lost his friend because of an accident. So he left to travel. One year later, he appears in front of friends again, but Sun-Il resembles his dead friend a lot. His friends keep watching him. Their friendship is in critical condition unlike the past. One day, he falls in love. Sun-Il has the happiest and sweetest moment in his life with Ji-Soo (Park Grina), but because of an unexpected incident Sun-Il feels strange with himself.

Combining a humorous and affectionate family portrait, a historical film and a search for identity, Defectors confronts the impact of the Korean War on different generations. Through encounters with a North Korean defector, Hyun kyung Kim reflects on her separation from her loved ones — such as her whimsical mother, whom she left behind in Korea upon moving to the United States.

Twenty years ago, at eighteen, Seonyoung suffered a severe spinal injury in a fall. Her family sold their home and shop in Incheon to cover medical bills, moving to her father's hometown of Cheongju. There, tragedy compounded: her father struggled with alcoholism, her mother's health failed from hard labor, and her brother developed a mental illness after a traumatic military incident. Now, Seonyoung studies for the civil service exam, hoping to pass and finally return to Incheon to reclaim the life and memories left behind.​

Sanyi lives in a typical apartment complex in Seoul. Tired of being bullied at school, she finds little support from her distant mother Soyoon and her father, Chao, who struggles to survive as a Chinese immigrant. To escape her reality, Sanyi secretly observes her neighbors’ lives through their windows. One day, she witnesses a shocking crime through the window of her only friend, Hajin. As Sanyi grows closer to Hajin and his enigmatic mother Yumi, she finds herself torn between love and fear for Yumi. Eventually, Sanyi must decide whether to leave with them for North Korea.

Sa-gang, a feminist clothing designer who pursues feminism, and her younger sister Yeon-bi, a shaman who advocates masculinism, are sisters who live in the same house. It begins with a ritual for Sa-gang's husband, but strange things begin to happen to the mannequin erected in her house.

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.

A road movie about young people who heal their wounds from love through busking in the streets of Vietnam.

Seung-Hyeon was good in the study at a high school at Mokpo city (Southwestern city in Korean Peninsula), and is excellent in the sports. He is transferred to another school. In new high school, a student named Sam-Yuk can exercise strong physical strength and do sports game well, but is poor in the study. Both young students compete each other in various fields, and Sam-Yuk is steadily influenced by Seung-Hyeon to devote himself to the study to become an exemplary student.

The Korean alphabet, illustrated with animation, spoken, and accompanied by music.

Underground performance hall in Hongdae. Seven nameless rappers hoped to play hip hop and came to Seoul with a vague dream. However, unlike what they thought, they carry a brick or serve more than they stand on stage. The hopes and goals of these seven unknown rappers are at stake. Monthly rents and various bills that put more pressure on them.

A chance meeting on a vacation destination. A meeting becomes a new relationship, and a relationship becomes a beautiful life.

Su-hee, who grew up with a single father, decides to give up her studies due to the recurrence of heart disease in her younger sister Jeong-hee and the loss of her father's job. Afterwards, Soo-hee gets a job at a disco club run by Madam Kim to pay for her Jeong-hee's hospital bills, where she is popular for her outstanding beauty. However, Soo-hee runs into her father, who, like her, finds her ex-girlfriend Madam Kim to save her Jeong-hee's hospital bills, and she learns about the relationship between the three. Shocked by her, her father runs out into the street and dies in a car accident, and Soo-hee vows revenge on her mother for abandoning herself. However, after the successful operation of Jeong-hee through her mother's love, her three mothers and daughters embrace each other in love.

A beautiful nightclub owner finds herself desired by many men, but she is saving herself for the one man she cannot have .

A 21-year chronicle exploring the strange life and the cosmic thinking about death and life of Kim Uchang, one of Korea's foremost thinkers, who leads a life in complete agreement with his philosophy. What meaning do things and a house have to the scholar who cannot throw away his parents' belongings and cannot leave the house he has lived in for 40 years? Can he ever complete his final book?

Yoon is preparing for a new life as he plans to leave Jeju Island. However, when his father doesn't return home, his daily life starts to unravel. As time passes, there is no trace of his father. Eventually, Yoon sets out to find him, and through meetings with his father's acquaintances, he gradually discovers sides of his father that he never knew.

Mr. Koo is a miserable salary man in Seoul. His hobby is taking pictures on the weekends. While on a trip, he takes a picture of speculators. They take him on a fancy outing, mistaking Mr. Koo for a reporter. After that, he pretends he is a reporter but gets beaten up by a group of workers on strike because he carries a camera.

As a mysterious fish appears in an empty water tank abandoned on a rooftop, the story of Muhwa, Iwa, and Goem, who often frequented the rooftop, unfolds from their different perspectives.

Director Byeon from Daejon barely makes a living by teaching about scenarios. Then one day, Byeon hears that one of his short films has been chosen for the Short Film Corner at the Cannes Film Festival. However, unexpected things happen around Byeon, before he finally goes to France and meets Sara, a mysterious actress.

Du-yeol feels that his life ended after being diagnosed HIV/AIDS positive ten years before. Gabriel falls in love for the first time ten years after his diagnosis. The two start living together in a rooftop house, but eventually, Du-yeol leaves, marking the beginning of an endless chain of breakups and getting back together. Although they share similar pains, love seems difficult for them as they have different desires.

In the everyday life of the bus, the world still hopes to find warmth.

In the previous year, the harvest had been very poor and many farmers starved durng the winter. With the new growing season, it looks as if the harvest will again be bad because of a lack of rain. Young, idealistic farmer Eun-gi asks rich Kim Han to share his bounty, but the request is refused. Eun-gi's rightous fury is turned to rain by the heavens, giving the poor farmers a cause to celebrate

One night, Su-min secretly looks through his girlfriend Eun-young’s phone and becomes convinced she’s seeing another man. A few days later, when Eun-young comes home late from work, he suddenly suggests they visit Mokseom, a small island off the West Sea that inspired his novel Tide of us.

A mysterious child turns up at school. It is not even certain whether the child is a boy or a girl, and the child who only ever drinks water is ostracized. Now the child tries to make everyone else just like the child, and now all the flowers in the world are in full bloom.

Somewhere foggy. It turns out that this is a place in a VR game played by Jeong-Im. The purpose of the game is to find your own house in an unfamiliar place. Jeong-Im begins to enjoy the game and finally arrives home, but the game does not end.

Every coming outs are hard. Especially coming out to the family is the hardest one. Can love make coming out to the family?

A film about a period of creative crisis in the life of the composer Chang-soon Yoon.

Underground and Sungmin are a couple who have lived together for a long time. Unlike the well-to-do underground, Sung-min cannot show her talents as a writer and is stressed. Ji-ha, disappointed with her boyfriend, makes another boyfriend named Cheol-gyu, and to break up with Seong-min naturally, Ji-ha introduces In-ae to Seong-min...

Su-il goes overseas to study with his future father-in-law's financial assistence. Over time he falls out of touch with the family because of his studies. His girlfriend's family begins struggling financially, and after failing to contact him, his girlfriend marries a rich man to solve her families economic situation.

Orphaned from a young age, Jeong Shik runs away from the orphanage in hopes of making money. He roams the streets but soon he is caught for stealing bread. He is saved by Seong Gyu who, taking pity on him, invites him to live with him and his friend Min Wook. The three friends are invited one day to Soo Mi's birthday party. Soo Mi is a friend of Hye Ryun who is Min Wook's girlfriend. But they are ridiculed and verbally abused by Soo Mi's elder brother and so they leave the party. Jeong Shik becomes convinced that money is the answer to all his troubles. Meanwhile, Min Wook vows to take revenge on Kang Cheol who stole Hye Ryun from him only to dump her immediately. But he is no match for Kang Cheol and becomes a casualty of his own rage.

MV for Lee Min-hwi 'Hometown to Come'.

Around the 1990s, as video media became popular, a personal movie watching culture had been formed. The video culture of various layers, such as watching movies of various countries, by genre, and repeatedly, has influenced film making and its community directly and indirectly. Film directors, film researcher, broadcast producer, cameraman, Blu-ray producer, and video art curators who have directly experienced this culture talk about the meaning and value of video culture of the times.

She longs to be like her idol, ‘Rose.,’ Mina, a middle school student, starts working at Motel Rose because of her family’s financial difficulties. The motel in a back-alley red light district downtown. There, while doing the cleaning., Mina meets ‘Hanna’, a teenage runaway who resembles ‘Rose’. Hanna sells her body at the motel, but Mina secretly wishes to become like ‘Rose’ one day.

A film about organ transplants and the difficulties that occur with them. The film was distributed on smart phone devices in order to break the stereotype of screening theaters and provide more audiences with a chance to experience viewing independent films on their devices.

Following the death of her beloved friend Seo-yeon, Se-ryeong reflects on their time together and cherishes the memories they shared.

The indecent war begins to subdue the proud sister-in-law. An unemployed man, who was depressed with the money his wife earned, hurts his pride because of the appearance of a rude and promiscuous sister-in- law ...

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)

Park Sang Hak's (infamous N. Korean defector) group prepares to launch the balloons that contain leaflets that condemn the Kim Jong Un regime over to North Korea as the border town residents and liberals ready themselves for their most intense clash.