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A post office clerk mistakenly thinks that a customer is trying to get her attention by writing open love letters on postcards he sends out. However, although he is trying to catch someone's attention with these missives, they are actually meant for another postal worker.
A documentary that tells the story of Choi Hyun-sook, the first out lesbian parliamentarian candidate in Korea who ran for Jongno-gu in the April 2008 National Assembly election. It's a story about people who dream of a world where minorities are happy, and who, with expectation and aspiration, find the campaign headquarters and made an election with Choi Hyun-sook.
Ji-young, a new employee of a small company, is devoted to her work, but ironically enough, she is given the task of evading taxes, thanks to that loyalty. Working late with Hee-jin, a co-worker who has dealt with tax evasion for many years, she feels a discreet hostility between Hee-jin and herself. While she moves toward the injustice of her company and society, a fire breaks out in the company building.
A lovely story of people who withstand the burden of life.
In 2016, Replicants, human clones developed to replace the human workforce, rebel in a space colony and infiltrate Earth, and Agent Recur, a Blade Runner, is deployed to eliminate them.
Gyu-ri struggles with the prejudice and misunderstanding that pretty girls are worth their looks. On the other hand, Jeong-seon is always treated as androgynous because of her easy-going and impressive appearance. Although they are both for different reasons, they are equally hurt by people's stereotypes about their appearance.
A railroad worker wearily sets out for his last day of work, carrying his usual bread and milk. When he approaches a hill, he decides to commit suicide and lies down on the rails. As the train approaches him, suddenly, a big jagged rock falls on the rail, leaving him stuck in the gap between the train wheels and the rock.
A beautiful piece of aesthetic work with sweat as a thread. But no one sweats for the same reasons. This ode to sweat, in slow-motion shots with a rhytmic musical accompaniment, presents the daily cycle of a man (and a woman), which is at a certain level also a cycle of life.
A high school classroom… The students have pushed their desks out of the way and are busy dancing. It seems that they are conducting some kind of bet to see who can show off the best moves. Once again, Cheol-min takes over and is declared champion for the day. He returns the money he wins but is obviously high on his victory. He preens in front of So-yeon, the object of his affections. So-yeon, well aware of Cheol-min's feelings, only has eyes..
On a steaming hot day, a mother and her son leave their home. The mother loses her ID card as well as her senses. But her son can't understand why his mom is behaving like such a child after losing her card. They keep fighting on the street under the hot boiling sun on the way to the district office.
Families do not always get along so harmoniously, nor do brothers always see eye-to-eye. As told in an old Korean Fairytale, two brothers – Nolbu and Hungbu – live in the same village and must divide up the inheritance left to them by their father. Yet Nolbu, the elder brother, is greedy and arrogant. He seizes his father’s house, along with the good folks who live there and even persecutes Hungbu and his family. In this endeavour, Nolbu is assisted by his greedy wife and a few unscrupulous individuals. Yet, the kind and virtuous Hungbu constructs a hut for him and his family in some nearby woods… and up on the rooftop of this hovel, a swallow has built his nest...
A girl with large hip-hop pants and an orange backpack walks around Gangnam Station. The girl's clear but unfocused eyes are bruised. Somewhere in Seoul, a girl gives birth to a child sitting on the toilet in a filthy public restroom. Green wings sprout from her back as she pours water with her blood-stained hands.
You and I can speak to each other without talking. We leave this moment, this time, for the moon.
A thoughtful young man ambles around the Han River, providing an expansive setting for his contemplations. During a telephone call on the Jamsu Bridge, connecting the districts of Yongsan-gu and Seocho-gu in Seoul, he discovers his umbrella has been lost by the girl he lent it to, and judging by his disappointed reaction, we can see he is hurt at being forgotten. Another lost soul is on this bridge, a man with a guitar asks for a light and a song. Soon the young man’s problems are put into context, when arguments about umbrellas seem to fade into meaninglessness.
35mm / 19 min. / Color
Three digital short films: 'Worldly Desires' by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 'Haze' by Tsukamoto Shinya, 'Magician(s)' by Song Il-Gon
Do-jin a high school senior had a 'sleep hold operation' with the demand of the mom. But he come to suffer from the side effect although he runs the successful road through that. Finally, he resort to the extremity ....
Holding a shaking hand with another hand, a former pickpocket confines himself in his apartment. He doesn’t talk to anyone for long. There is only one woman with whom he communicates.
On his way to a blind date, Mr. No Jae-Won, a young, rich and elitist man, desperately searches for his own answer to her most likely question: "Who is your favourite classical music composer?"
A woman goes to the World Cup Park with her daughter and loses her there. She desperately tries to find her daughter, but she can't. Finally, she goes to the World Cup Stadium and finds her daughter entering a large supermarket. She chases after her to fund unwanted surprises.
All sorts of people gather at a Korean barbecue restaurant for different reasons. Twenty pairs of shoes are left outside. Because of one person's mistake, the pairs are all mixed up, and...
"The Third Wish” (AN Dong-hui, RYU Jeong-wu). A fairy godmother appears before a visually impaired young woman to grant her three wishes. "Ajukari” (HONG Deok-pyo) is a street-style cartoon. It comically depicts how a certain macho "complex" can cripple men. "Baby" (LEE Hong-su, LEE Hong-min) portrays the difficulties a career woman faces in having a child. "Shine Shine Shining" (KWON Mi-jeong) is drawn like a warm, watercolor storybook for children. "Merry Golasmas" is an adorable claymation, or stop motion animation of models constructed from clay, plasticine, etc. Last but not least, “Lies" explores homosexuality.
A sexy compilation of the best gay cinema from Asia.
Documenting a performance that makes use of the Han River cruise ship and turns the spotlight on resistance against memories fading because of speed as well as the relationship between humans and nature within the city. The cruise ship points floodlights on the performance by the banks of the Han River, making Seoul a kind of massive stage and turning it into a space that questions the glances of others.
Sori gets scolded by her grandfather because she soaked the blanket last night. The old man is angry with mixed emotions, but in the end, he feels sorry for his granddaughter. Sori, who cannot speak for herself, can only repeat what others say... The postman delivers letters to empty houses and becomes increasingly tired. Sori plays with a scarecrow. The postman and Sori, who meet at the stream, spread their own laughter to the mountains and rivers under the sunset.
Bada and Haneul were transferred to the same school on the same day. They hid the facts that their fathers were the President and a gangster boss but instantly realized they were rivals. Moreover, both of them were attracted to cute Mina. A bodyguard team and a pack of gangsters fought each other to protect the two boys. Later on Bada and Haneul reconciled and became best friends. One day they were happily playing with their friends when the enem..
It is in the spirit of an experience and experiment that Hang Jun Lee's «The Cracked Share» must be viewed. Seized in moments of visual detachment during periods of emotional contact, these images are oxidized residues of fixed light and chemical elements of transformed from living organisms. No plastic expression can ever be more than a residue of the experience and yet, the residue is the recognition of the experience, loss permeates the work and yet somehow the experience endures, recalling the event more or less clearly, like the undisturbed ashes of an object consumed by flames. The recognition of this object, so little representative and so fragile, speaks to us of this artist's isolation. «The Cracked Share» is quite wonderfully dense and visceral in nature ...
Young residents of Seoul meet, separate, wait and dream by the Inner Circle Line of the Seoul subway system.
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.
A revealing, impartial, yet sometimes shocking look into the history, traditions and practices of the dying art of Korean shamanism, chronicling the lives of living, practising "hereditary" and "possessed" shamans.
High school girls A, B, C, D, and E are playing poker. S and T are fighting over marks they got in a sham exam. Y is spending an odd night with the practice teacher. They are all high school girls. They are all the “time” you have passed through.
Since losing her goggles in swimming class as a child, Ji-young has been afraid of water. Even now as an adult, Ji-young, who cannot open her eyes underwater, is anxious about her final swimming test and future career. She finds out that Soo-kyung, a precocious high school student who she tutored, has goggles and tries to borrow them, but Soo-kyung is not home on the day she promised to lend them. Soo-kyung, who ran away from home, dreams of an emergency on the rooftop in the rain that night, and Ji-young is still wandering in the water in her dream, unable to open her eyes.
A 20-something couple is having a date. They want to make love but they don’t have enough money or time. They look for a place where they can have sex.
This music documentary follows the path of Yoon Do-hyun Band on its daring adventure of a tour of Europe. During the month-long tour of Europe, sharing a bus with an unknown British rock band, the band members are faced with the challenge of performing for 2 hours in front of an audience of 20. Such experience brings them back to where everything started. What they were faced with was not a new audience but perhaps their own forgotten selves.
Records and memories, seeing and showing. The place where the director was born and grew up, and two cities in Germany were captured in super 8mm film cameras. The work contains the process of finding one's own records, going through the city, recording memories, and returning to Korea to discover new memories.
Two widows, one American and one Korean, frequent the same park in Philadelphia. Using only sign language, and as the seasons pass, they tenaciously attempt to form a bond.
A grandmother tries to learn to play the drums. She finally found a young man who was willing to teach her to play the drums and the young man was a former drummer for a death-metal band.
Behind-the-scenes production on the 1999 South Korean drama-horror 'Memento Mori.'
Three short films from South Korea, Japan, and China grapple with the aftermath of conflict and personal trauma.
It is the year 1965. Yu-jeong and Hak-song reaches the marriageable ages. They have the 4th date at the ostentatious Kukje Jungang Cafeteria and feel awkward to talk to each other. Now they find a common point in their ideas.
Depicts work settings where job applicants are evaluated by their physical appearance in looks-obsessed Korean society.
Soo-jung and Yun-jung are sisters in their 20s and 30s, both physically challenged since birth. Like other women, romance, sex, marriage, and having children are concerns in their lives. The filmmaker records their social life with a close but unpatronizing gaze, as they fall in love, break up, study porn videos, and dream about having their own children. Conventional Korean values die hard, as we see from the voices of the people around them, while the sisters themselves never cease to smile, to sing, and to try to enjoy life despite the odds.
The death of a company CEO triggers a battle for his estate, when his will indicates that he leaves everything to his missing granddaughter. Now everyone in the company must compete to find her first.
In a cattle market Jung-Hee, a butcher, escapes from her abusive husband, Sung-Chil, who gambles and even beats her. Neighbors who pity the situation suggest that she eat meat to be strong.
During the Korean War, Ilhwa, who had been separated from her lover and had defected to South Korea, became a shaman and lived her entire life in the hopes of summoning the ghost of her loved one if he had died. However, time is cruel, and she has not been able to find that person, and she has grown old enough to smell death. One morning, when she wakes up from her bed, seemingly no different from any other day, she finds that all the ghosts she had sent to the South have come out to greet her.
When hit KBS drama I'm Sorry, I Love You aired in 2004, it recorded high TV ratings, won the acclaim of critics, and quickly became one of the flagbearers of the Korean Wave. The tragic love story of Mu Hyeok (So Ji Sub of What Happened in Bali) and Eun Chae (Yim Soo Jung of Lump Sugar and I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK) made stars out of its leads and attracted an enormous fanbase throughout Asia. Two years later, G&G Entertainment released a 35-minute animated version of the drama, Between of One Year, consisting of highlights from the drama and new scenes dealing with the final moments of Eun Chae and Mu Hyeok's relationship. The script was supervised by the writer of the original live-action drama, Lee Kyung Hee.
Faceless Things shows two acts of gay sadomasochistic sex—one acted, the other not—with such bare-faced cheek that some viewers will be repelled.
When Gina Kim turned twenty-two, she decided to leave her home in Korea and not return. Taking advantage of an opportunity to study abroad, she was anxious to escape her mother’s authority and avoid a similar fate as an overweight, underappreciated housewife. Traumatized by her decision, the filmmaker began to develop symptoms of anorexia and proceeded to document her mental decline and eventual recovery. Combining video performance art with an intimate home-movie diary, this self-documented coming-of-age story demonstrates how video technologies can be used to capture the most intimate, confessional voice of a filmmaker.
There are two guys are sitting face to face in a basement; Kyung-sin who was caught from intervention in student movement, and a police officer, Joo-joong who’s in charge of torture. The student doesn’t confess what he did and who else involved in the movement and the officer keeps on torturing him. By the way, the police officer spoke out how he’s been working as an informal worker at a police office, which he must work over time without any special bonus and any insurance from work. He’s consoled by the one who he’d arrested.
Pedro Costa's segment from the Jeonju film "Memories".