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Sunk in chronic lethargy, "I" follow my mother on a walk along Namdaecheon stream and recall an old elementary school assignment: catch a planarian. I never found one back then; I just played on the trampoline ("bang-bang") nearby. An unsolved mystery remained: do planarians really live in Namdaecheon? This film is the story of a middle-aged woman with a new ADHD diagnosis who, in trying to find the answer, tumbles down a rabbit hole of planarian obsession.
This is a road movie about a girl who always dreams and never gives up. She lives in a small town near the 'Saemangeum' tidal flat that has been drained and filled. At the same time Cha-Eun's track team is disbanded. Her coach recomends that she moves to the city where there's a school with a track team, but her father refuses to send her to the city. Her Filipino stepmom plans a trip to Seoul w
It is criticized that the resident card, which has been implemented since 1968, is in fact only a fascistic system of state power to classify and control the people. Fingerprinting is the most essential part of the control process, and the work explains that only after completing the humiliating fingerprinting process can you enjoy your rights and duties as a 'citizen'. The director is a person who has participated in the opposition to fingerprinting since May 2000. The movement of the work follows Lee's struggle leading up to the administrative lawsuit, intersecting the arguments of the government and the logic of opponents of the resident card.
As Seolgi is lying on a grass field with friends, a shooting star falls, and dark, intrusive thoughts hit her. Her melancholy blooms into bright and colorful "flower people," dancing and wishing for a meteorite to end the world.
Guided by Pastor Peter Jung, a South Korean activist, nine defectors are gathered in a Southern China village. North Korean defectors are internationally accepted as refugees, yet China does not recognize them as such. So, the plan is to cross into Vietnam because if they are arrested in China, they face repatriation, which in turn leads to imprisonment, or worse. With the help of Pastor Jung, the nine refugees cross successfully by night into Vietnam. But the South Korean Embassy refuses to accept the defectors. Still in hiding, a search begins for an Embassy that might offer safe harbour and refugee status. There is some hope that the Danish diplomatic mission will offer assistance, but once out in the open, their position known, they are at risk. The penalties threatened by China are not to be taken lightly….
In the family dinner time, mercilessly following the mother-in-law and wife's chatter, the new groom becomes confused. How to deal with violence.
An enlightening film about a teacher who sees a rich student despise a poor student, and eventually the students study hard with each other's affection.
A bloodbath of revenge against the Japanese pirates begins! In the 32nd year of the reign of Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty, Japanese pirates invaded the southeastern coastal area, and in order to combat them, the Military Bureau of the Ming Dynasty decided to produce a new weapon called 'Bimengpo'. 'Nogi', who was appointed as the person in charge of the Sergeant Bureau, completes 'Bimonpo' after three years of hard work, but in a chaotic situation, not only his family but also his colleagues are brutally murdered. 'Nogi', who barely survived, begins to seek merciless bloody revenge on the Japanese pirates who killed his family and colleagues...
Gangs from China, Korea and Japan compete in Hong Kong using their national fighting styles--Kung-fu, Taekwondo and Karate
The Oasis Laudromat has been there for 30 years, passed on from generation to generation. One day, the family's ailing mother passes away after saying the word "laundry." Believing there is some special fortune in the laundromat, the Ahn Family turns the it upside down. The laundromat turns into a mess overnight because of human greed...but was there really a fortune for them to find?
The runaway high school students, Hyeon-su and Dong-gyu, are helped by Min-jung who is a member of the so called runaway family. Hyeon-su asks to go to a runaway family’s residence, but Dong-gyu opposes it, and Hyeon-su and Dong-gyu feel for each other as they depend on one another. Dong-gyu frankly confesses to Hyeon-su, but Hyeon-su denies his feelings and leaves Dong-gyu to head for the home of runaway family by himself.
When young boys, who are practicing traditional martial art in Shaolin Temple, return from outing in secret to their master, they find that Ttol Ttol Yi fall down to the present days where he makes friends with a boy called Aram and his friends. As they tries to drive out tricksters on the street, the tricksters kidnap Yi Seul Yi, Aram's sister and disappears. While those who are in Shaolin Temple starts to look for girl Kang Shi to fetch Ttol Ttol Yi from the present days. Ttol Ttol Yi, his friends and girl Kang Shi clear out the kidnappers and save Yi Seul Yi.
A seriously ill girl decided to take part in a running competition. The newspaper announced that the winner would receive a large cash prize. And the girl was determined to win a prize for her family by all means.
Hee-soo, who visits the dentist, wants to receive scaling treatment from Mi-sun, a dental hygienist. But she seems to have another reason for visiting Mi-sun.
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.
A family of lions and a family of cheetahs struggle to survive the consequences of climate change in the Serengeti.
Choo-hyeon, a film crew member, drives to pick up an actress, but ends up picking up a prostitute named Hee-ra by mistake.
An animated story from Sticky Monster Lab that simultaneously tells two stories - that of the father and that of the son.
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.
In their late twenties, Jaehee and Jungwoo are co-workers at a video production company. While working on a project related to caregiving, they meet Ahyeon, Jaehee's neighbor. Meeting Ahyeon awakens a part of Jaehee's heart and memories.
Travel up and down on a high-rise elevator alongside a curious kid, texting teenagers and a couple that won't stop arguing.
This documentary is an "Asian report" on so-called international prostitution. The subject matter of parasitic tourism in Jeju Island in Korea is focused on, and it is said that international prostitution in Asia has a relationship between countries, focusing on Thailand and Japan, and that it is not only a problem between countries biased by the flow of capital, but also in the context of "sexual culture" with long roots. In the second half, the question is what is the alternative and what is the boundary between prostitution and non-prostitution in the current situation that is considered to be like "ghetto" because it is separated from the life of the general public.
A highschool student arrives in a small village from Seoul but cannot adapt to the attitudes of the country people.
The watch tower is an unattractively battered piece of lighthouse-looking architecture standing on a Yaksa-dong hilltop in Chuncheon. No one knows when, who and why it was built, but the tower which was rumored to have been raised as a fire watch during the Japanese Imperialist times, was used as a surveillance point for the Chuncheon Penitentiary and now a broadcasting tower where sirens are played during Civil Defense Drills.
In Caramelman, a man melts into caramel. Throughout the animation, reality and an imaginary world are mixed. In reality, the character lives his busy routine life, and becomes tired and exhausted. His state of mind and condition is shown through the imaginary world where he turns into caramel; the most tired.
Mother Hyo-jeong moved to a different room three times while living with her mother-in-law. Hyo-jeong, who has been a full-time housewife for 20 years, became her new head of household as a counselor. But her dad still wants the role of her submissive wife. Her mom wants her independence into her safe space. While she lives in each room, her father's intrusion continues. Although her mother keeps moving rooms, her father continues to disturb her mother's space. Will her mom really have her own space, can she have that fifth room?
The unemployed father kills his time in the library to escape the heat. His son is in the same library, studying for the civil service exam that he's been preparing for the past few years. These two "losers" go to the same library but pretend not to notice one another. The father secretly picks apricots from the tree in the backyard of the library. The son is displeased with his father.
On a star called 'Battlestar,' a class of turtles have evolved to form a civilized society. Shark, villain of the universe, attacks Battlestar. The princess escapes with the secret design plans of the Comentor Robot. On earth, Dr. Yang discovers how to bring garbages of the universe to earth and take care of them. Dr. Yang brings the princess to earth. Hyuk walks into Dr. Yang's lab. Contaminated by gamma rays, Hyuk grows supernatural powers. Hyuk and the princess combine forces and fight Shark and his men.
One morning, while chatting with friends, thirty-year-old Kim Ji-mi discovers that a video of herself has been uploaded to a porn site.
One day, a mysterious creature grows on Nam-joon's shoulder.
Is it ‘rule breaking’ for Korean society to encourage childbirth while leaving childcare to individuals? Is it ‘rule breaking’ for a family where the father works low-wage irregular jobs and serves as a stay-at-home dad to four children? To resist Korean society's rule breaking, this stay-at-home father of four decides to become the so-called "Rule Breaker."
Seong-ah, the main character who lives in a camp at a welfare facility in the cathedral, is given a confession and is given a continuous service (a practical task for atonement given by the bride after confessing). She tries her best to perform penance, but it doesn't work out as she wishes. What is wrong with her?
Poet Jae-ho no longer can write poetry in reality so he belatedly registered on the cyber world. There, he meets Ju-yeon whom Jae-ho knew before but has not thought of for 15 years. Jae-ho came to the cyber world with high hopes but is having a hard time adjusting. Ju-yeon teaches him the laws, the rules, and the living customs of cyber world. In the process, Jae-ho and Ju-yeon go beyond the everyday talk to discover an important memory that has been pushed out. Curiously, it was a file that was drifting in the sea of the cyber world. It was also Jae-ho himself as well as something to be avoided.
On Christmas Eve, Jae-Yul, as Santa Claus, brings gifts to children in a rich village and in a poor village. This year, he faces an unexpected event.
Korean movie.
In One Fine Spring Day, a Korean melodrama, it wasn't the handsome main characters' love that remained most vividly in my memory, but the scene in which the main male character was recording Jeongsun Arirang, sung by an old couple in a mountainous village. At that time whilst seeing the movie, I asked myself why this sound, not the romance, makes me shudder. I was in my 30s. And, as coincidences become inevitability, I came to know the strange village.
Only through pictures, only through eyes, and eye movement.
The 54th, the record of that summer, is, as the name suggests, the record of the 54-day long struggle for 'nullification of an ex officio sign' by Hyundai Precision Industry workers in Ulsan in the hot summer of 1993. Prior to collective bargaining on wages, the company secretly signed a unilateral agreement (signed ex officio) with one of the labor union leaders and tried to put it into practice. The workers of Ulsan Hyundai Precision Industry were enraged at the sense of betrayal of the union leader they trusted and the despicable treatment of the company, and for 54 days in the hot summer, they start a strike to get a fair price for their labor.
While Professor Yun, one of the world's leading authority on genetics, is abroad, Oh In-cheol and his fiancee Yun Jin-suk take the professor's papers from his laboratory. In-cheol and Jin-suk are researching the principle of the chlorophyll and a pill that can make people invisible. In-cheol becomes invisible and catches bank con-men and child kidnappers, etc. He works hard to expose society's evil and he is pasted all over newspapers. However, the criminals follow him and discover his identity. They steal his invisible pills. The criminals become invisible and they go on to commit their crimes such as robbing banks. But they don't have any pills to reverse the effects. The criminals ultimately come to In-cheol looking for the reverse pills when they are caught by the police.
Song Hye Jin's short film.
This melodrama tells the sad love story of a rich artist for a beautiful kisaeng.
A short film made by Park Kwang-su during his time at the Seoul Film Collective.
Min-goo and Eun-jeong meet at the playground and become close. The two of them go on a treasure hunt with Eun-jung's suggestion. They discover something.
Four puppet soldiers walk and make a movement inspired by Samuel Beckett’s Quad (1981). By visually adapting Deleuze’s analysis of Quad (The Exhausted, 1995), the film explores the idea of "The exhaustion of possibilities” through stop-motion animation. The puppets and the printed images slowly disintegrate, and the residue envisions new possibilities.
Seok-Yong, a 33-year old rapper wannabe spent all his life pursuing for his dream.
Wan-soon, a 9-year-old girl living on the island, managed to survive a massacre that took place 75 years ago. The lingering effects of this unresolved ordeal are emphasized, and the girl embarks on a journey to depict the vivid red fragments that remain in her memory, using a red colored pencil as her means of expression.
Ki Jin, an aspiring fashion design student with big dreams, struggles to find his path in South Korea's competitive fashion industry.
Remember how grown-ups used to tell you that babies are delivered by storks? The truth is even crazier than you could have imagined.
As her dementia deepens, Yoon Young-ja, who has spent her entire life as a shaman, moves between a nursing home and her family home. Her words drift between conversations with the dead, memories of her youth, and the confusion of the present. Amid her repeated wandering and anxiety, the family prepares a final ritual to close the long-shuttered shrine. When the doors finally open and the ritual begins, with family and disciples gathered around her, her body rediscovers a rhythm it seemed to have forgotten. Different times collide, and long-buried emotions begin to surface.
A man and a woman sit staring at a silent screen in a nearly empty theater. When the film ends, the two walk out silently and split without saying a word. The woman, who is wandering around the man′s house late at night, happens upon a location shooting where a movie is being filmed and steps into the film. Time and space between the film and reality overlap and blend like a Mobius strip.
‘Seire’ is a sacred period after birth of a baby, during which the family should refrain from going outside and breaking certain taboos in order to protect the baby from evil spirits. Ki-hyeok, the father of a newborn, ignores his wife’s dissuasion and visits a funeral. After that, the baby falls ill for no reason and mysterious events start to take place.
A woman takes the train home.
Sun-hee, who is the inspiration for her daughter Yong-ju’s novel ‘My Mother’ receives a message from her old friend Mi-yeon. Five years have passed since they last met, and there are things they would like to, but cannot say to each other.
Sun shines on a village on a mountain. In the village are trees, people, animals, and houses. One night, an unknown light shines.