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A 28-year-old girl, In-hi Hwang, experiences paralysis in her upper body to which she does not know the cause, and her family continues to get into accidents. She saw this as some kind of curse and visits Hae-kyung Lee, the female shaman. In-hi finds out that she is destined to be a shaman and falls into dilemma. Korean Shamans are the intermediary that link living humans to the world of the spirits and the world beyond, between reality and a non-realistic world. They have sometimes played a role as an advisor of life, sometimes as cursed messengers of weird gods. They are a group of people who are usually despised by others, but they have been around for the past 5000 years, carrying the burden of the gift that god has bestowed upon them.

Eun-hye suffering from Down’s syndrome entered school earlier than others did. Friends from school make fun of her because of her slow speech. She’s always dignified and doesn’t care about what they’re saying, though. She’s pretty good at playing a flute, sending a text message by cell-phone, watching movie on the computer and telling an old story.

A documentary about the unconverted long-term women prisoners who had been captured as communist guerillas in South Korea and despite decades of imprisonment and social ostracization continue to uphold their cause of reunification and national democracy. The film follows the women as they attend reunification rallies, meet with a new generation of activists, march in protest of the war in Iraq, visit the DPRK to take part in the Inter-Korean Women’s Reunification Rally, reminisce with their comrades, tend to their families, and bury their comrades.

Moon-gi and Hye-yoon, who are lovers, decide to go on a weekend trip to advance their desperate relationship, but he goes to the seashore alone.

Woo-sik thinks ‘man’ should be ‘manly’ in every ways. What he’s talking about, with his friends at a bar just tells us how often and seriously we discriminate against others out there; sexual discrimination, racial discrimination, treating waitresses so bad, homophobia, judging people by the way they look and education back ground, etc. In the end, all of his friends left him behind and he came over to a stranger saying “you know what I mean, ‘cause you a ‘man’!”

Ji-su, who was returning home late at night, witnesses a hit-and-run traffic accident. There are a young woman and of Jisoo's age and a child in the street.

This is a short film which Kim Soo Hyun took part in when he was student in 2008.

Shot in Korea and Europe, Coreen 2495 unveils the imperialism that underlies global political systems, a Korean government that has proven helpless against it, and the people who have devoted their lives to reinstating the Oe-Kyujanggak Archives to Korea.

A documentary sharing the story of five women captured and enslaved by the Japanese military as "comfort women" during World War II.

Ffacce, an incompetent detective in New Baker City, accidentally finds professor Cart's bad conspiracy who is the most famous scientist.

A little boy and his uncle are playing loudly in a cold bath on Sunday morning.

At the end of summer late in the afternoon, a man asks a woman a very difficult request.

A girl is taking a nap. In dreams, she meets her sexual desire hidden in her unconsciousness. The object of her sexual desire was the shape of a man first, then the man changed into the object of her horror. She ran away and was shut in her space. She felt so lonely that she was satisfied with the sexual behavior with her body by herself. Eventually she woke up.

Explains Heo Jun’s Dongui Bogam [동의보감] which is an important book in traditional Korean medicine. Heo Jun [허준] was a court physician during the reign of King Seonjo of the Joseon dynasty in Korea.

A high school student must struggle to secure a job because of her undesirable appearance. Discusses discrimination against women.

Man and woman in the container driving range. Line 1 passes.

This documentary follows two gifted young boys, 12-year-old Park Su‑beom and 10-year-old Park Sung‑yeol, as they pursue their dreams of becoming pansori masters. Raised in contrasting family circumstances, both channel their passion and emotions into their art.

Twenty-something Se-young, thirty-something Kyung-eun, and forty-something Kyung-soon all try to find the true meaning of their existence within a family that constantly violates the self while Vincent, an American adoptee, mocks Korea’s ‘blood relations obsessed’ society.

Yoon-jae, 17 years old, secretly goes out with his tutor, Soo-jeong, a charming college student. He seems more audacious about love and sex than most of his friends.

This is a record of six years since the closing of the Doomeal branch school. At the end of 1994, the residents of Doomaelee, who protested the closure order of Doomeal Elementary School in Doomaelee village (Gapyeong-gun, Gyeonggi-do), developed an anti-closure movement and opened a school in the village hall to teach children. Due to the unreasonable demands of the education office and the government, it is discontinued.

A suckling pig gets lost in the countryside whilst a Korean peasant discovers Shakespeare.

Seung-gil, a repeat student who wants to be a guitarist, but is not very good at playing the guitar. One day, Seung-gil is caught imagining himself playing the guitar his father hid in the attic. The guitar is broken, and while Seung-gil is in despair, a strange ball enters his room window, and all the sounds around him become music.

Jimin, a deaf child, lives with his mother in a redevelopment area. The child, who does not know the sounds of the world, feels the vibrations of his mother's heartbeat and the movements of everyday life around him, and curiously observes the movements of all things. Jimin, who is watching his brother and sister playing with a kite that was lost, eventually goes out into the city outside of the house, and as he encounters the world, he begins to feel his own sounds.

Looking in the attic reveals an emotional discovery made by a woman coming of age. Past, present, and future interweave into a nostalgic journey of youth played out in the rooms of her mind. How can memories satisfy her yearning for time.

Korean parents' extreme fervor for education is exposed as a child undergoes a tongue operation to enhance his ability in spoken English.

A young married couple is having a meal, facing each other in awkward silence. With removing packages stacked around the room, they finish their tasteless dinner together. The man feels a sudden burning discomfort in his stomach and soon a most nauseating fills the room.

DV / 22 min. / Color

Father had been living an unstable life following after construction sites to work as part-time carpenter. But now, he's old and there aren't any sites who'll hire him. The multi-leveled structure of the construction industry in Korea and Japan is managing the laborers inhumanely. While looking at those who live every day of their lives finding work and always with the uncertainty and pain of unemployment, I'm reminded of my father.

Doki, a female rabbit, falls in love with, and chases Nabi, a male cat, in a world where love between rabbit and cat is socially unacceptable.

A strange air hangs between an old-looking student and the teacher in an empty classroom. The student keeps threatening the teacher, and the frightened teacher delivers an unknown locture Poetry Class puts the events from each character′s perspective and memory together in a well-structured form.

Mr. Doh drives a forklift at a factory. After receiving an urgent message indicating that his mother is in critical condition, he tries to take some time off. The answer from his boss is “No way” because he is an irregular worker. He gives up taking time off since it should deduct from his monthly salary. Upon hearing his sister’s anxious words, “Your mother is sick, how could you not… Are you sure you are not going?” Mr. Doh enters the gate of the factory again. He tries to pray for his mother by taking a bible from the library, but the wall of the staff library is even higher than the Berlin Wall for him, an irregular worker.

Dae-Han News was the name of a propaganda film series made by the Korean government press from 1952 to 1994. During this time, Dae-Han News produced one film clip per week. Long Live His Majesty is a sampling of the Dae-Han News series. Long Live his Majesty is about the dictator RHEE Syngman who was the first president of South Korea. He appears in this documentary as a man whose every day is a birthday.

Numerous incidents and accidents that go up and down the newspaper every day. However, no matter how terrible events and accidents are, if they are routine, then tolerance develops. Around 2000, news of social killings without criminals or suspects began to overflow in Korea's morning newspapers and evening news.

A documentary that is at once a city portrait of an Asian capital. It accounts the recent changes of Seoul from the perspectives of both a former local dweller with many intimate memories and an expatriate traveler whose knowledge of the city can neither be contemporary nor irrelevant.

Passer-by: between Azure, Bisque and Teal, unfolds as a series of uneventfully eventful moments captured in Istanbul. The musical chords accompanying the film, performed with a wind instrument (a melodica) have been based on the weather history of Istanbul, turning Istanbul summer’s statistical data of migration of wind, changes of temperature and sea level pressure into musical notes.

Two women and two men move around somewhere. They are all just someone.

Getting out from the jail, Young-kwang comes back to his hometown. In the meantime, his mother diedand the family do not welcome his visit. With the money, his mother has bequeathed to him, he buysthe real estate, gets married to a widow and starts a fish-peddling. But both the anxiety for theredevelopment and the doubt about the fidelity of his wife lead him to an extreme choice.

I am an actress who plays Martha, the main character of the play 'The Misunderstanding'. Even in my daily life, I constantly draw back Martha's lines and portray her. Following her feelings, I go to the sea that she craved and find a desert that resembles her. I feel her footsteps as I pass through the sea and the sun, the devastated desert and the burnt-out warehouse, where I meet her.

In Seoul, there are 70 thousand taxis including 20 thousand corporate taxis and 40 thousand private taxis threading across the city. In most cases, a taxi driver works 12 hour shifts and must complete 20 to 30 trips a day in order to take home the smallest of earnings after paying 80 to 100 dollars to the taxi company. The taxi drivers go to every nook and cranny of the city with a variety of passengers at their side or in the back seat. One summer I became a taxi driver, driving one of Seoul’s 70 thousand taxis …

A sarcastic and hilarious short archival documentary on the Korean military style, this film uses recorded footage of the Vietnam War and military educational films from the 1970s when Korea participated in the war with the U.S. As it wittily demonstrates the close connection between macho aesthetics and militarism/patriotism, it also criticizes the massacres carried out by the Korean army in Vietnam, and humorously questions a Korean society that, at the time of production, was approving the dispatch of troops to Iraq.

Adopting mainly hand contact printing with photographic enlarger, «Metaphysics of sound» started from September of 2006 and completed in July of 2007. With a 35mm soundtrack image, I made a hand-drawn soundtrack on the 16mm film strip. The sounds were made either by directly contact printing the 35mm sound tracks or collaging the scratch images. According to pattern of sound on the 20% blank of 16mm film strip (normally used as space for optical recording), I edited whole image and made structure of film. Hence the margin is a where image is sound, and vice versa. Later, I studied the sound patterns which varied according to the kinds of images used or the concentration of the image, and made various attempts at rearranging the structure of the sound with the image.

The film takes place in contemporary Korea with a slight alteration: in this Korea duels are legal. YU Young-bin is an ordinary office worker - a counselor in his workplace but a veteran swordsman with formidable skill. But the years of dueling have made him weary. While visiting a fencing training center run by his friend JIN Woon-gwang, YU encounters an unpleasant high school kid, CHOI Bon-guk, in whom he sees his own younger self reflected.

Late at night, Woo-hyuk working on writing poems is visited by his ex-girlfriend, Nari. He tries to mellow her out only to find that they exchange misunderstandable words with each other. Recalling their travel to the island "JeBu", they finally find something in common to share. Now Nari asks him to travel to somewhere with her.

Nebula Rising is a gorgeous transformation of the emulsion of film into expressionistic abstraction what Hangjun Lee calls “a pursuit of the science of dust”.

A man is calling someone and looks very serious. He recalls the past with his sad face. He is wondering the reason.. 'You used to smile that way.. but why?'

19-year-old Hyun-iee and Jin-sun got to take refuge from North Korea. Jin-sun is always troubled with her classmates and an owner of her part-time work place cheated her. She’s all alone at home. Her silence is made out of lack of communication with the world, which makes people think she’s deaf. Hyun-iee misses his hometown so much and buys a lot of gifts for his parents and stuff them in his knapsack just like his routine.

Kelvin Kyung Kun Park’s Invitation to a Peaceful City, poetically mediates on the various forms of cultural resistance and simple quotidian ways of making do, that a variety of displaced Korean villagers have made after being first displaced by the Japanese and then the US Air Force. Park’s work sensitively speaks about the conflict that has arisen between the locals who are now tied into the economy of the base and others who still live under its shadow.

Someone constantly gains wealth and power from a community of race, of nation... Not only that, that someone tries to pass on that power and wealth to his descendants forever. Because of that, someone has to constantly maintain this community of race, of nation... Someone, therefore, caselessly recreates the prestigious values of this community, which exceeds the self... and, in the end, a forever self-reproducing circulating ring which comes from the lives and actions of those who have been brainwashed that they are part of this community from the womb...

DV / 22 min. / Color

Father Sao Roberto is unique among many foreign missionaries dedicated to the Korean democratic movement.

A personal documentary film that follows how the director and a female Japanese documentarian met at a film festival and developed an intense relationship. It expresses honestly and candidly the big theme of 'communication' between man and woman, and between Korea and Japan, through a very personal love affair. A pleasant film that makes us look at the way we communicate, and what understanding another person is about.

Monk Jeonil, a nun of a small temple, witnesses a UFO while practicing meditation in a mountain hermitage.