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This documentary tells the story of people who were at the scene of the 2014 Sewol Ferry disaster: journalists, bereaved families of the victims, and the survivors. Ten years after the disaster, what did it leave them? These are three omnibus documentaries with different perspectives.

This film is a Movies strip that consists of 365 frames. The actor is actually moving in one direction but appears to swing like a pendulum on the screen. Sporadic booms of the soundtrack reveal the relationship between the human pendulum movement, the rhythm of the soundtrack and its perforations, and the object split into individual frames.

White flower shoes, a keepsake of the madam, left to the young lady. Midori, the maid, wants to have these beautiful flower shoes.

In a three-story villa in Seoul, a widow lives on the first floor, a student who works to feed the dog of a professor at his school who is away on work lives on the second floor and a woman who works at a karaoke bar lives on the third floor. The woman on the third floor comes home on her bike and takes a shower; this is where the movie begins.

Young-hoon, the lighting director of a musical, has an out-of-body experience during the intermission of his final performance before retirement. As a wandering spirit, he encounters Soyul, an actress in the show.

Eden believes that her younger brother Hyun-ho is suffering from 'electromagnetic hypersensitivity syndrome' and flees to escape electromagnetic waves. However, even in the mountains, Hyun-ho's condition does not improve.

I AM POWER, I AM GRACE. THEY ARE FOIL TO ONE ANOTHER. TOGETHER THEY COMPLETE ME, GENUINE AND UNIQUE. ONLY THEN, I AM AUTHENTICALLY “ME.” MY MOVEMENTS CARRY THAT ENERGY, IT MANIFESTS IN EVERY GESTURE. MY VERY PRESENCE SPEAKS FOR ME, AND IT WILL NOT BE SILENCED. I EXIST ON MY OWN TERMS. OUTSIDE OF WORDS. THIS IS JUST ME.

A South Korean Navy helicopter vanishes during a ROK-U.S. joint military exercise and crash-lands on a deserted island where time and space have collapsed. There, the crew encounters soldiers lost ten years earlier and comes face-to-face with the entity known as "It." To return home, they must survive and uncover the truth.

Describes a woman's emotions at a turning point in life - love, parting, and birth.

Independent films that do not have a less than 20 years history. They do not have lost hope and passion despite repeated conflicts and ups and downs. It was possible because of the belief that independent films are at the center of the world in their role, even though they are located on the periphery of society. Through the testimonies of many independent filmmakers, current activities, and footage, Korean independent films are shed new light. The periphery is the center, and the center is on the periphery. A reflection on the inside of the independent film industry to find trust in each other, talking about the hopes of independent films looking for a new path.

Heeji, who studies architecture, loves her best friend Eunseo. Eunseo asks Heeji to live with her. Eunseo wants to live in a house designed by Heeji in the future. Heeji wants to know if Eunseo’s mind is the same as hers. A landscape of relationships drawn by two minds crossing and mixed.

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.

There is a town with a well called 'Bachelor's Well' after a young man dug the well and jumped in to kill himself when his love for a girl from a rich family ended miserably. The story is about a ferryboat rower, a bum with a limp, and many other men all fighting to get the love of one girl. Three beggars who die with grudges against this town appear every night as ghosts to haunt and curse their foes.

One afternoon, when a comet is predicted to hit the earth, Su-in and Jae-hee, who did not know each other well, visit places they have never been before and get to know each other. The end of the world is gradually approaching, and they climb to the higher ground, embracing the moment of extinction.

A lady came back to home. While rest in home, she fell in a phantasmal dream. A dead man's soul came to her and she witnessed his death. She felt sympathized to him and recognized his death.

Cheonggyecheon is a small industrial area in the city of Seoul where small metal workshops are located. Cheonggyecheon had played a key role in the industrialization of South Korea from the remnants of colonialism and war. Following the liberation of the country from Japanese rule in 1945, many industrial complexes became abandoned, resulting in a flood of scavenged machine parts on the market.. In the 1960s, Vietnam War veterans brought many machines into Cheonggyecheon, initiating small-scale production and what’s now considered “copy” production unique to the economies of developing nations. In the past five years, the business on Cheonggyecheon has declined as the surrounding neighborhood is in the process of renovation and gentrification, as part of a beautification initiative by the Seoul Metropolitan Government.

A Stance Thriller: Exploring How Perspectives Dramatically Change Outcomes After a Minor Collision

Yeong-hoe visits the country house to get a seal from her uncle Mansik. However, at home, there's only Mai, a migrant woman who is married to her uncle. Yeong-hoe is suspicious of Mai, who seems to be hiding Mansik's whereabouts.

Suhee, a water purifier management manager, discovers she has urinary incontinence due to an unexpected incident at a customer's house.

A short documentary about a Korean high school student preparing for the most important exam she will ever take, an eight hour long college entrance exam.

Plot TBA; described as a dramedy examining themes of image, identity and reinvention in the social media age.

The bird and the shadow are born in God's hands. God asks the shadow to never let go of the bird's feet. The shadow feels guilty seeing how the bird longs to fly away.

During the Japanese colonial period, Jinho, a Korean student, marries Sakiko, the daughter of Japanese army colonel Fukube. When it is revealed that Jinho is Korean, Fukube assigns Jinho to a unit in North Manchuria. In response, Jinho escapes from his unit and hides in the mountains with Sakiko.

Daebok is a crisis small business owner with overdue alimony and utility bills. During the recession, only credit loans increase. Still, there is no income, and the unemployed son Hongmin is no help. One day, Wonchang, overdue for credit, threatens Daebok.

Hot summer days are passing by. Postgraduate student, Gyeong-ju, will not be able to get the degree when the semester ends. Consequently, she might be fired from her part-time job which requires her to graduate. For Gyeong-ju, who shoots only character-based, non-mainstream films with slow rhythm, the professor and the people around her suggest shooting a popular, commercial, mainstream film. However, she finds it difficult to write such a story. In the meantime, Gyeong-ju gets to read a scenario of her student, Ye-Bin, at her request. It is a scenario that suits the criteria of popular, mainstream films, and Gyeong-ju feels tempted.

While working on her first documentary film, director Areum meets a progressive party activist and chef, Seongman, and gets married. After getting married, she takes Seongman with her to study in France, of which she had long been preparing. In France, the only thing Seongman could do was housework. Not being able to read or speak the language, Seongman suffers from depression, when Areum, the one responsible for their financial and administrative duties, gets pregnant. In order to help Seongman get over his depression, Areum suggests that they start running “Oegil Restaurant”, a project to cook and serve to a limited number of guests on specific days. However, after the birth of their baby, Areum starts concentrating on her studies and film-making, leaving Seongman parenting alone. This leads to frequent aggressive fights, and Seongman declares a strike. Will Areum be able to succeed in juggling both her marriage and film?

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Jang-hwa and Hong-ryeon, the daughters of Bae the official governor, die of their stepmother's unfair maltreatment. Jang-hwa's ghost appears in front of a district judge every night begging for clarification of their deaths. The district judge lets the stepmother confess the cause of Jang-hwa's death, and then punishes her. It clears all enmity.

A detective is led by an accidental postcard to investigate an incident at USFK base Camp Long. Camp Long is in ruins with no one coming for twenty years. In the process of gathering, defragmenting, and arranging neglected information, the detective discovers that a strange geographic data value called Camp Long ATM occupies all space and time. However, there are no traces of any ATMs or banks at the scene, and only bright red bloodstains are disguised as evidence. The film is a mystery report of a detective trying to understand the legacy of time.

Sergeant Kim Seonyeob, nearing the end of his military service, quietly volunteers for night duty at the 1-1 guard post to dodge a grooming inspection. He's paired with Private Park Jihoon, a fresh-faced recruit. Their uneventful shift takes a sharp turn when the keen-eyed officer Park Jang-hyun makes an unexpected visit. As Kim Seonyeob's expression grows increasingly rigid, the secrets he's been hiding slowly rise to the surface…

Daui is a little girl who realizes that she no longer has her own space after her family starting collapsing. One day, Daui wakes up in the middle of the night and catches her 'doodle whale' trying to escape. "I wanna go home!" After hearing him out, Daui decides to join the adventure.

A boy takes care of his sick mother while his father works at sea. He suffers from terrible nightmares, haunted by the worst imaginations about his mother and father. One day, he sees a girl dragging a huge rock along the beach. Intrigued, he follows her home and discovers how she managed to escape the worst imaginations.

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

This documentary is a director Kim Dong-won’s only autobiographical film that was produced as a request from the video festival. The film starts with the director’s son declaring that the film should start with a blank background with a title reading “We will now start Tekken Family” and then the director’s voice asking his son “ Have you ever seen a film start like that?” The whole family sits in front of a game machine playing Tekken and having a joyous time. This image of the family is very much different to the passive and disconnected image of a family portrayed in People in the Forest of Media.....

Kotaro is hospitalized by his father in an accident. There, Kotaro is treated by his father's lover, a female doctor, Chinatsu, and stays in the same room with her friend Sayana. Then one day, Saya I confess that I have missed her manly taste since her divorce, and I crave Kotaro's young body to my heart's content in the same room.

Hyung-soo is a member of the judo team at a high school in a small fishing town. He joined the team to avoid his alcoholic father, but due to him Hyung-soo quits the judo team. Hyung-soo tries to adapt to high school life with the help of friends. He gets to know a new group of kids at the school.

In 1940, Lang Lang, the only daughter of the dojo of the Cheongsim Hall in Manchuria, which was infested with corrupt martial artists, is a tomboy in the world. Lang Lang's father invites a martial arts master to entrust his daughter to her in order to correct her daughter's behavior and rebuild the forest.

Minjae, a delivery man, waits every day for the courier supposed to arrive at Samjin Corporation. It is because he has a crush on Dayoung who works there. One day, he finds that the members of Samjin treat her poorly. In order to help her, he quits the delivery and gets a job in Samjin.

In an era defined by climate crisis and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, a group of individuals embarks on a mission to sow the seeds of a controversial plant. They initiate their farming venture in Paju, near the border between North and South Korea, attracted by hemp's ecological benefits and its potential to foster peace. However, they soon face significant obstacles in a country where hemp is classified as an illegal drug. Those who require hemp for medical purposes, along with its advocates are criminalized as the plant itself is. In a nation that has declared a war on drugs, no one associated with hemp remains untouched by the shadow of illegality.

"Anti Late-Night Snack Club" is a gathering where three members, each struggling with the aftermath of a breakup, the loss of a beloved pet, or the stress of work, come together to overcome their respective challenges. While meditating and strengthening their resolve, a surprise order of midnight snacks arrives, tempting them all. How can they resist this temptation?