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A researcher's blind struggle for her thesis inside the engulfing white space creates the uncertainty of her own research.

In May 2006, the Ministry of Defense enforces a "move out" of Daechuri in order to make room for the expanding U.S. base. 'Protectors' who support the residents fighting against the action move into the village to help protect it. People who have lived different lives gather in the same space and try to build a new community in Daechuri. As the villagers make up their mind to move, they experience another kind of separation. The faces of so many people who strived to protect the community they dreamed of are reflected on the backs of those who set off for a new place to live their lives.

With an instant noodle, artists take turns to show off their creative cooking skills.

In the 1980s, the Korean student movement generated powerful anti-American feelings in Korean society. The director wonders why it should be - despite this sentiment - that Korean women continue to marry American GIs. In addition, he is curious about what their life is like after their wedding day. Ajuma is a former prostitute who married an American soldier and now lives in New Jersey. From their first meeting until the last, the film project is in danger of being undermined by the conflict between the director and Ajuma. The contrast between the two finally turns into the subject of the documentary. In the story, which is told in an unorthodox way, both of them finally reveal themselves.

Old Mr. Kim receives a red car from his son on his seventieth birthday. He's delighted with it, but now, for the first time, he has to take a test to get his driving license.

Filmed a power plant for 20 hours in 100 angles.

The plight of the "one-point-five generation" of over 20,000 Koreans who immigrated to Argentina is explored in the debut feature from director Bae Youn Suk. Soon after Bo-rum's father's illicit clothing factory is raided by the authorities, the displaced worker catches the eye of pretty, former co-worker Duk-Kyu. As the pair set out on their first date to the tourist hot spot of La Boca, the good time that they have together is nevertheless underscored by their relative unfamiliarity with the strange surrounding. From the young, rabble-rousing Koreans who resent the fast-track success of their more industrious fellow countrymen to the second generation that offers hope for the future, this is the story of people trying to find a new life as their identity as Koreans fade and a new breed emerges to forge ahead into an unknown but promising future.

A small turtle and a rabbit rush to save an undersea kingdom.

My dog, who lived with me for 13 years, had never seen the sea in her life. I wanted to go to the sea and say goodbye to her through film, without knowing the existence of the sea.

This is witty film about teenage mom. A group of school children sneek a pet carrier into school, but what's inside is a baby, not a pet. The students look after the baby at recess, but the teachers finally find out that a baby is inside the pet carrier and the children fight to keep the baby.

The main character, who started out as a peddler selling instant adhesives on the subway due to financial difficulties, experiences a series of setbacks due to fear and shame. He gains courage through the kindness of a stranger and eventually seems to succeed, but...

Flesh to digress, impulse to degress.

A weight lefiter So-young is in the third grade of junior high and she is in the same class as Cheol-gu, hwo is planning to move to Australia to study there. The two teens feel uncertain about the future that they've chosen, but their parents just force them to go on, regardless of how they feel.

Ask your heart, listen to your heart, and open your heart.

Yeon Young-seok is a singer, activist and cultural laborer. His music consoles the fatigue of many people who live in the cruel neo-liberalist world and at the same time composes his own tiring life and reality. As he consoles the world, however, Yeon chose music as his strong motive to live his life which regulates his reality. In this contradictory reality which he feels pain and also consoles, he walks into the world and reflects himself on a condition of winning. Let us listen to his music in his studio, in his one bedroom apartment and on the street. And let us picture what the victory that we need for us is, instead of convicting a victory.

I like to play with a doll when I was young. I did make up at my mom’s dressing table. It was like playing at playground to other kids and I did wear a skirt and shoes and went outside to play. However, everything had been changed since I went to school there was certain rules at school.

Jin-ju Park, the school's top student, and Jin-ju Ma, the student with the worst performance, are in the same class. Jin-ju Parks seems as if she has it all, but she actually has an obsession about losing her top spot. She eventually develops ADHD and checks into a mental institute.

Among the countless attractive couples who dot the streets of the big city, there circulates a young single woman spending her weekends alone.

In 2002, I am 19 years old, and I am a senior in high school 50 days before the college entrance exam.

This experimental film, directed by Kim Hee-suk, is about a bound and tortured man who turns into a specimen when he tries to escape.

The Man Who Watched Too Much Part 2

The film is an asian filmmaker's commentary on Western experimental film history and a recitation of personal memories.

One day, Eun-joo, a married woman who has been married for two years, receives a confession of love from her younger sister's boyfriend, Tae-woo. Overwhelmed by his passion, Eun-joo crosses the line. Though wracked with guilt, she becomes addicted to sex with his strong young body. However, her younger sister becomes aware of their relationship... (South Korean softcore production imported in Japan in a dubbed version by XCES, original title unknown).

On October 15, 2003, in a quiet autumn day at a high-rise apartment. Hwang Ga leisurely waters the plants on the balcony. At the same time, Hyung-min, a man in his sixties, lives in an old house on the outskirts of the city. As the local news on TV announces the confirmation of the "Jeju 4·3 Incident Truth Report," the two elderly men reminisce about their similar yet distinctly different pasts. The first independent film from Jeju Island.

A truck driver has a chance encounter with a girl in red shoes.

Observations of deserted landscapes, a busy city, a zoo, a suburb and a cemetery together evoke an image of America.

It's raining on the mountains where the birds sing.

A broker tries to get rich by a scam, but the police discover his intentions so he becomes a fugitive who runs aimlessly until he reachs a battlefield. Part of the 2002 'Jeonju Digital Project'.

We covered the reclusive monk Beopjeong for three years, from our first meeting on April 30, 2001 until 2003! Monk Beopjeong of ‘no possessions’. KBS reporters met him, who had long avoided TV appearances and contact with the media. One day, about 6 months later, after lingering around the camera without even turning it on, the monk said his first words. ‘Let’s support the cows’. The meeting that took place after that and the monk's words were captured on screen. The clear and fragrant words of a monk heard among the bamboo forest along with the beautiful four seasons of Bulilam Hermitage! An anti-war message delivered by a monk at Ground Zero in the United States. 'Hate only blinds the eyes.' The footage of him accompanying Monk Beopjeong for three years will be revealed on a KBS Sunday special.

To have conversation with Mr. Mouse, daily life has to be selected and excluded. To disclose dirty and nasty things in society that is full of germs through twisted amateurish imagination. To reveal humane symptoms like romantic evilness, contempt and fear as pessimistic weakness and thoughts on death. These aim at Mr. Mouse in the form of excluded body movements, deconstructed sentences, irony and witticism. As I attained a victory from them, I decided to be a guardian of toilet myself.

The story of a boy looking for his lost puppy.

For his birthday party, Kyung Soo’s mother invites his elementary school friends for a wonderful birthday party. Believing he is interested in English, she loves to invite his classmates from English class to be native English speaker teachers. As soon as a foreign girlfriend of Kyung Soo, arrives, the exciting party air starts to be broken. Everyone gets shocked by her dark skin. His friends make fun of her by saying, “Are you from Africa?” and “Go back to your country!” Dragging Kyung Soo into a room, his mom says, “Why do you play with her cheating on your mom?” His moderate mother finally unmasks herself.

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This documentary explores the dual nature of modern zoos: are they vital sanctuaries protecting disappearing wildlife, or are they prisons confining living beings? The film respectfully chronicles the suffering of the animals and the emotional impact on those dedicated to caring for them—highlighting both the ethical dilemmas and heartfelt compassion underlying human-animal relationships.

Head of a radical anarchist group that fights against dictatorship, and breaks into a base for the purpose of destroying the main facilities of the government and meets Mi-joo, once a colleague and lover of the same group.

A man sees a little girl in his dream and he becomes sure she is his mother. But he never saw her face before...

Two sisters have an awkward relationship, and their mother also experiences a difficulty in relating to her younger daughter. Upon the suggestion of the elder daughter, the three women go to a public bath far from home. The initial discomfort among them gradually fades at the bath. In the course of their conversation, a secret underlying the tensions in the family comes to light.

Claymation animator Young Man Kang uses traditional Korean images to portray his homeland.

This is a 'Minority Report [or the Report on Minorities]' captured during the 2002 Korea - Japan World Cup season. The huge suvvess of this sports festival bolstered 'national pride' among many Koreans, who have forgotten that feeling for a long time while it gave some people a feeling of despair. Those who despaired that this soccer event completely excluded 'minority' voices who suffer from bitter reality and ordeal. This festive event was only for the majority of people who think they represent Korean as a whole.

A short film by Cho Hye Jeong

'hibernation ' is conceived from the videotape of the wedding ceremony and the daughter's home video. In the work process, the filmmaker pays attention to the details being recorded, what I remember, and the relationship to lead it in the new detail. Hand printing performs the role of editing and printing simultaneously. As a result, the print created in this process will be a result and new material at the same time. Additive printing procedure is taken as a manner of recording in this film.

It has been found that plants of downtown areas produced more carbon dioxide than they absorbed from the atmosphere and leaded air pollution to be deteriorated. Trees changed their growth pattern to stand the heat of hot weather because of unusual above-average temperatures. Now the natural food chain starts the counter-cycle. This film should serve as a warning to continuous environmental destruction by showing the counter-cycle of transformed creature against natural food chain.

One day, a peaceful small town is visited by anold woman with widow’s weed and blackumbrella. Then, all of sudden, the rain starts tofall on the fine day. Next day morning, thewoman comes back and this time, with thunderand rainstorm. Later, the town people find outfrom a police man that the woman is wantedand dangerous, but it’s was too late to save thevillage from the disaster.

The Song of the Dead: In the year 553, General Bai Lan lead her army against Sun Law and was trapped in an evil spell by their wizard. Almost 1500 years later, a singer named Wei Lai and her producer Wing Man begin practicing in a deserted studio. Wing Man discovers among the old papers an unfinished song, and begins to compose an ending. Meanwhile, Wei Lai keeps seeing a female ghost draped in red. As the song nears completion, Wing Man begins to transform into another being, and Wei Lai's actions are becoming even more bizarre. But what is the meaning behind these transformations and their connection to this still unfinished song?

A tale of growth as father and son have the mission to climb a totem.

The award-winning short Halmoni (2003 / 10min), about the life of her Korean grandma who migrated to Japan at the age of three.