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High school Seniors Mok-Lyeon and Byung-Hee have their first sexual intercourse at a cramped and non-soundproof study-room at goshiwon. While Byung-Hee is out buying snacks for Mok-Lyeon, the neighboring man enters the room where Mok-Lyeon is alone...

Mi-yo and jay-sung's marriage loses all the passion. Mi-Yu falls in love with Dong-hwi at first sight, and she has unlimited sexual fantasies and illusions of him. Dong-hwi works in a vehicle agency. Pretending as a customer, Mi-yo takes the initiative to get acquainted with him. They then kiss and make love fiercely and soon start to live together and pursuit the ecstasy of sex. However, Mi-yo soon finds out Dong-hwi still has ambiguous relationships with other girls and feels heartbroken.

On April 28, 1986, two students, twenty-year-old Kim Se-jin and Lee Jae-ho, immolated themselves to death, shouting slogans, “No war, no nuclear weapons, Yankee go home,” “U.S. sign the peace treaty with North Korea,” and “Expel American imperialists.” This took place in the midst of a public demonstration against the forced conscription of students, joined by approximately four hundred students and held at the Sinrim crossroads facing the Seoul National University main gate. The manner of their deaths, the radicalness of their slogans (they were the first overtly anti-American statements to be heard in public since the conclusion of the Korean War) deeply shocked Korean society at the time. Twenty years have since passed. The world has changed.

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...

After SEO Taiji's comeback in August 2000, SEO Taiji fans experienced the subversive aspects of a live rock concert and became delighted with slam culture. The fans, while fighting the mainstream media and its inaccurate portrayal of SEO Taiji, stand firm in their opinions and desire for a new culture. This documentary enables us to discern the current situation of Korean pop culture through SEO Taiji fans.

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.

Roads criss cross our landscape, making it convenient for human beings to travel. However, countless creatures also die as a result of these roads. This piece documents South Korea`s first in-depth study of “road kill.” It shows how drivers, who race along these roads, destroy animals` natural habitats and kill them in road accidents. Adopting an environmentalist point-of-view, this film questions the economic logic that girds development.

Suicidal Variations shows a woman in a state of total despair after she kills a man. His decapitated head follows her and she decides to escape by committing suicide.

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.

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.

An animated story from Sticky Monster Lab that simultaneously tells two stories - that of the father and that of the son.

Only through pictures, only through eyes, and eye movement.

Song Hye Jin's short film.

A single man begins taking care of his 7-year old daughter after the death of her grandmother, with whom she used to live. At first he grapples with the everyday challenges of raising a daughter, but more serious challenges lie ahead

One day, Hwa Young (Lee Seong Yeon, 3-iron) receives a mysterious parcel labeled "So Hwa 20 Years". In it, she finds an official death notice and some personal belongings of a Japanese soldier. A photo displaying the deceased soldier and a woman catches her attention. The woman on the photo looks just like her! Terrified, Hwa Young throws out the package, but a few days later, the same package reappears.

Hyun-tae, who is a wild goose daddy, is going to the sea to commit suicide on Christmas Eve. At the same day, Kaka who's working at an auto shop is gone to the sea by his boss. Hyun-tae and Kaka don't meet each other, but they connect through Mi-joo, Hyun-tae's daughter. It’s an itinerary of fathers’ Christmas Eve, which look different but the same.

While secretly trying to film the woman next door, Seungsoo happens to capture footage of a murder. The murderer kills Seungsoo, too, but only after the tape with the recording of the murder has been placed in the return box of a video rental shop. As he borrows videos randomly in search of the incriminating tape, the killer learns from Seungsoo’s younger sister, Seungmi, that her brother was a fan of thrillers. Starting with De Palma’s Dressed to Kill and Hitchcock’s Vertigo, the murderer becomes deeply enamored with film. In the end, he reveals his dream of becoming a director to the cashier at the video rental shop…

Once there was a boy Junseop LEE, who's the least liked boy in his class. With no true talents, the only thing that makes him stand out from his peers is his ability to eat anything. With this talent under his belt, his spirits run sky-hight and he can't wait to show off his new eating ability. Unfortunately, he doesn't know that a faltering dilemma awaits him.

A divorcee reevaluates her life after a chance meeting with another woman with a similar history.

A kid full of fear. A gun aimed to the head of the kid. The gun held by his mother. The tension between him and her. She is about to trigger the gun.

A documentary about the life and work of video artist Nam June Paik made by the Korean Broadcasting Network.

In a village under reconstruction, 65-year-old Han must take his father's ashes back home after the graveyard is removed.

Sang-hoon loses his job. He even gets scammed by his friend. I have to find his friend and get my money back. A shipowner with a severe headache. It is difficult to cure with drugs. cut by the company Getting a job is not easy. And there are people who are entangled like a string between Sang-hoon and Seon-ju. normally or not.

Youngjin and Kiseok were once lovers. Meeting by chance after a long time, they spend a night and a morning together.

Chang Sik and Sung Tae, who used to be a homosexual couple when they were young, happen to see each other at the Royal Sanctuary park by accident. Holding in memories from their past, they go to a motel and talk about their relationship to forgive and understand about what it meant to be together. After spending the night at the motel, they soon realize they need to leave each other again to get back to reality.

After separated from her father for sixteen years, a young girl and her mother have a heartfelt reunion with her father.

When director Mun accidentally discovered the diaries of his late granduncle, who was mentally ill, he unexpectedly learned about his family's secret history. The small mountain village in South Jeolla Province where Mun's family lived, was nursing the wounds from conflicts of class, ideology as well as from the displacement of family members in South and North Korea, and even in Japan. It turned out that the history of his family contained all the tragedies of modern Korean history, a history he had only known through textbooks. This interesting documentary investigates a complex history linking the repercussions of Japanese colonialism and the Korean War to the director's family memories.

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.....

Simple-minded Yeong-jin is considered to be the village idiot. But he holds the key to saving his sister's boyfriend. The latter stands accused of killing the policeman who was raping his Yeong-jin's sister

Although an initial match-making attempt between Pyongho and Saebyol through their grandparents is unsuccessful, the two are brought together by fate to participate in the Pyongyang spring fashion show. Modelling both the fashion and the virtues of a wedding couple, their families convene to judge the potential unity. However, tradition versus the foreign influence seeping into society becomes the theme as misunderstandings come to create drama between the two families and the young couple

The story of the protagonist and the people around him who try to earn money by doing various things to save his ailing lover.

In bed, late on a sleepless night in the depth of winter, Eujin finds a small dust kid. She decides to do the cleaning she has been putting off for so long. Cleaning every corner of her room, she keeps finding other dust kids here and there, and starts clearing them up one by one. Just when she thinks she has cleaned her room and the dust kids are all gone now, she comes face to face with another one… When I am at home alone, I sit silently and mull over many things. As I think, my brain fills with pointless worries and anxiety. That’s when I start to clean my room. As I clean busily, wash the dishes and do the laundry I’ve been putting off, my anxiety disappears naturally.

On the reversed sound of Vivaldi's Spring, a line scratched on the film follows the silhouette of outside's lifeforms, praying for them to be reborn, in a better world, in a better form.

A couple gets a phone call while they are on their way to the train station to go on a trip. Cheol-min hears from her friend that his girlfriend had previously lived with her friend. Hearing this, Cheol-min is worried and does not want to go on a trip. He is very excited by the feeling of betrayal that he cannot trust this woman.

After receiving a call that her mother is ill, Yun-ji keeps getting lost on the subway on her way home. A young girl who lost her mother on the subway goes to the lost and found center and registers herself as a lost item. The following morning, Yun-ji leaves her sick mother behind. She listens to an announcement from a girl looking for her mother on the subway.

Soo-Young, who originally prepared to take a state examination, suddenly decides to be an actor and goes to the theatrical company. He wants to find a breakthrough with his acting career but he feels hasty and desperate because he started late. This theatrical company is preparing an experimental play and starts to gather actors . Mi-Ran, who is in charge of this company wants to scout this actor called, Ji-Hwan. Mi-Ran thinks he is an outstanding actor but some of the actors opposed to this idea. Soo-Young who wants to be a good actor desperately wants to meet him. Soo-Young goes all the way to the mountain in Kang-won-do just to find Ji-Hwan, but Ji-Hwan turned out to be not the person who Soo-young thought he would be. Ji-Hwan seems too awkward to be a good actor. And Soo young, who wanted to find the method to be a good actor, becomes very confused as he gets to know ji-hwan more and more. And he finally learns that there is no such thing as a method.

One Winter morning, the letter from Norway reached Lee Yeong-hee and Choi Yeon-hee through mistaken address. With the letter in their hand, Yeong-hee and Yeon-hee strolled the neighborhood on their way to a senior colleague's wedding. A replay of consolation to a relationship which is needless to say, but is full of empty words.

A zombie in Seoul, 2001 is a corpse which died 22 years ago. The corpse sucks vital energy of the live to revive and walks around Seoul. There are people to worship the zombie. They build a church for it at last, and the honorary president of the church is President who has been hurt by it. Moreover, many Korean rightists talk about the zombie and still perform what he instructed. It is the zombie, the president Park that the rightists worship, who is the leader of the National rightists. This is a reality of the right wing which now are still working in Korea. I’d like to teach English to you rightists and Park. Fuck you!

Three friends lounge around on pillows after having lunched on the terrace. One of them leaves staggering. It is a matter of expectation and temporal perception.

This is a portrait of today's youth living in times of serious unemployment. A day before the presidential elections, a group of students walk past an empty field in a redevelopment zone. The teenagers talk about their future and share rumors about a girl who died in the field. As they walk along, a mysterious beat-boxing girl follows them around.

A strange and yet unique story about hoodlums who spend most of their times either on gambling or dealing pornographies, high school students who sell their bodies, and prostitutes.

About three women in search of a home return to South Korea after an absence of more than thirty years. In the 1970s, they left everything behind in order to go to Germany as "guest workers." Although assimilated in their new country, they long for the old one. Now they are able to realize their dream of returning with their German husbands to Dogil Maeul, the German village that has been created for people like them. Situated in a picturesque bay, the village is indeed more German than Germany--there is even whole meal bread and Frankfurter sausages. This is the new-old home to which their sixty something husbands Armin, Willi and Ludwig have come in the hope of spending their remaining years. However, there is still something missing for the three women as they discover it is not so easy to pick up where they left off.

A woman who is caught up in capitalism needs a victim to complete her love.

Tae-hoon and Mi-jung are both eighteen and in love. During winter break they go to the beach to celebrate their 100 days together as a couple. But once they come back from their trip, they are forced by their parents to never see each other until they become college students. Mi-jung begins to avoid Tae-hoon afterwards. And Tae-hoon begins to wander around Mi-jung. Winter turns to spring, and Tae-hoon and Mi-jung both turn nineteen.

Mad minutes is a documentary about the memories of civilians who were killed by the Korean army during the Vietnam War. It testifies to the insanity and barbarism of war that does not stop, even through the memories of survivors, who are living with the terrible memories of war buried in the heartbreaking historical sequence where countless civilians were sacrificed. The director tells a forgotten part of history through the lives and testimonies of the survivors. It is a record of the scars of war that can never be erased, in line with the twisted modern history: Before even properly apologizing for the massacre of Vietnamese civilians caused by the dispatch of South Korean troops to Vietnam in the past, the government dispatched troops to Iraq again. - Mad Minutes: "To soothe the boredom of American soldiers dispatched to Vietnam during the war, we give them 2-3 minutes once every two months to allow them to freely shoot at anything other than the target inside the unit."

A documentary about the 8-day sit-in struggle by GANG Cheolmin, a 22 year-old private in the South Korean army who declared his objection to military service on November 21, 2003 in order to stop the South Korean government from sending troops to Iraq, and the peace groups supporting him.

Jongno, Winter is a short film included as one of the ommibus film in If You Were Me 2 (2005). It deals with　an incident of a Korean Chinese Kim Won-sup frozen to death on a street of Jongno. He was an illegal immigrant　who could not ask for help during a cold winter day with overdue wage over 10,000 USD. He died of　exposure on the street. Director Kim Dong-won expands the problem of the illegally immigrated Korean Chinese.

Yong-gwang, a boy who lost his sight, made a tactile map for his sister, who is staying at the hospital. He wants to go for a walk with his sister, so he takes her hand, and make her close her eyes. Now, his sister will take a walk on the tactile map through Yong-gwang’s way of looking at the world.

Kyung-eun and Byung-chul had lost their son 1 year ago. One day, they hear the sound of foot steps in the empty room that is their son's room.