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Jang Yeong-sil, a genius scientist, rises from slavery to the rank of jong sam pum (Senior Third Rank) thanks to King Sejong's favor, but after the palanquin incident of 1442, he disappears completely from historical records. Where did he go? In 20th-century London, a painting by Rubens titled "Man in Hanbok" appears in an auction at Christie's. The identity of this unknown Asian figure painted by Rubens traces back to the era of King Sejong in the 15th century. Though born a slave, Jang Yeong-sil possessed exceptional brilliance. However, he receives an order from Ming China demanding that he be executed or handed over to them. With King Sejong's help, he escapes by joining the Ming explorer Admiral Zheng He on a voyage to Europe and even meets the Pope in Italy. But Jang's belief that the world is round is deemed heretical, and the Pope orders his execution. Fleeing for his life, Jang reaches Florence alone, where he encounters a seven-year-old Leonardo da Vinci.

Known as ‘Pa Nana’, a celebrated Latin singer in 1950s–60s Taiwan, Kao Chu-hua supported her family through nightclub performances after her father’s execution during the White Terror. Drawing on family testimonies and newly declassified archives, the film reconstructs her life under state surveillance, revealing survival beneath authoritarian rule and enforced silence.

CxM [Double Up] Live Party is the first fan concert tour by S.Coups x Mingyu. The tour will begin with a three-night stint at Inspire Arena in Incheon, South Korea on January 23-25, 2026.

Drawing on films made by Chinese state studios in the 1950s–1980s, this work revisits island narratives of war, revolution, espionage, and class struggle once shaped to engineer shared sentiments. Images from these features are dismantled and recomposed as propaganda dissolves into tropical murmurs, blurring borders between history and fantasy, individual and collective.

The largest interdimensional structure of Japan floats close to New Kawagishi, the restaurant run by Fujio. Despite a few strange incidents, the remarkable structure is not threatening, so daily lives goes on. Decades go by and Fujio’s son Sho takes over the reins of the restaurant. Suddenly, in 2021, something happens that turns Sho’s life completely upside down.

A writer is transported into his own work.

This is the story of "a certain three days" in their everyday life that seemed like nothing but was special. Would you like to take a peek into their lives as they laugh with their friends and grow a little?

Since turning professional, Yuzuru Hanyu has continued to deepen his skating while building a rich body of stories and expressions through his ICE STORY series. The first installment, “Yuzuru Hanyu ICE STORY 2023 ‘GIFT,’” was staged at Tokyo Dome, where an ice rink was specially constructed in what became a world-first scale venue for a figure skating performance. The second installment, “Yuzuru Hanyu ICE STORY 2nd ‘RE_PRAY’ TOUR,” explored the theme of “living,” while the third installment, “Yuzuru Hanyu ICE STORY 3rd ‘Echoes of Life’ TOUR,” presented a narrative and programs centered on the question of “life.” Now, the ICE STORY team where “the stories written by Hanyu” merge with “skating, music, visuals, and lighting” launches a new project: “REALIVE. ”Through “REALIVE,” the programs Hanyu has created so far will be brought back to the stage once again as “living entities” in a one-day-only live performance.

A Liang a timid rookie hearse driver accidentally kisses a corpse on his first job awakening the amnesiac ghost Zhang Wenshan who begins to haunt him Seeking help he receives a bizarre time limited mission from an eccentric priestess As troubles and police pressure grow an unexpected bond forms When the mission fails he escorts the ghost home only to discover it is his long lost father. The spirit fades leaving him to face a long overdue goodbye.

Between winter and spring, on a night that could go either way, two directors take to the streets with cameras and memories still in motion. Confession and rejection, love and its wreckage as fiction and reality bleed into one another, what they're truly waiting for may not be snow at all.

A short movie inspired by the eponymous fairy tale written in 1923 by Kenji Miyazawa.

This film tells the story of Zen Master Kyeong Heo Seongu who revives modern Korean Buddhism. He cares for a woman who is sick and tired of cold and hunger, but other monks misunderstand it.

2026 release

In the heat of summer, a family drifts through the rural towns of Chungnam, working temporary promotion jobs for mobile phone stores. Their van is both their ride and the only place they call home. One day, a box of phones goes missing. Two months of work suddenly hang in the balance.

The iris, resembling a butterfly, symbolizes the freedom of living with the wind. Among them, the blue iris conveys the message, "I miss you." This work is adapted from a true story, where two souls placed in the wrong vessels find and rely on each other in the world, yet cannot escape the fate of separation. The one left behind reminisces about the past but eventually takes a step forward.

Four interconnected stories reveal the crime, corruption, and everyday struggles hidden beneath the glamorous surface of 1990s Hong Kong.

Can music truly become a rallying cry? Danpyunsun, a veteran of Hongdae's indie scene, forms Danpyunsun & The Moments and records the album Hail to the Music. "Music must be vulgar!" he cries. But after the December 3 Martial Law, the world proves more grotesque than art. So he shouts louder: to those enduring this world—come with me. Fight!

MV for song 'SPECIAL' by NEW MANUKE. Directed by Takashi Ito

My mother is Gong-soon. I was ashamed of her name and spent years looking away. In my thirties, I return home with a camera and begin following her at work.

First held in 1975, Comiket has long shaped Japan's creative culture from manga and anime to games and cosplay. The committee, exhibitors, volunteers, fans, and cosplayers share their devotion to it.

Jiuha, a Yi ethnic boy, is a skilled basketball player and the hero of his friends. When their only ball breaks, he loses his status. His teacher announces the prize for an upcoming sheep-herding competition is a real basketball. Jiuha wins, but the ball is accidentally lost. To reclaim it and his friends' respect, he embarks on a lonely yet brave journey of growth.

This work is based on long-exposure still photographs of everyday scenes taken between 2025 and 2026. While there is no video, the accumulation of light transforms into an intense flicker that seems to break through the retina, compressing the sense of time and inducing hallucinations.

After an untimely death, a sharp-tongued police officer strikes a desperate deal with the Grim Reaper: she has seven days to marry her boss—her secret crush—or vanish from existence forever.

Jaehyun, a high school freshman, visits the teacher's counseling room to take the baseball team selection test.

Ah-Fu, burdened with overwhelming debt, moves into a container home deep in the woods with his nine-year-old son, Wei-Wei. Together with his girlfriend Jing-Wen and her seven-year-old daughter Huan-Huan, this makeshift, struggling family does their best to get through each day. Though life is poor, these small, fleeting moments gradually gather into a warm current of memories in the child’s heart. Years later, the container home they once lived in appears in the news. Wei-Wei is drawn back to those memories—Ah-Fu’s disappearance, Jing-Wen leaving without a word, a rusted biscuit tin, and a set of unclaimed human remains.

Mom left, leaving a young brother and sister behind. The older brother lies to his younger sister, saying that mom will return if she eats all the ramyun.

A young filmmaker, once skeptical of incense rituals, sets out to explore faith through his lens. From street vendors to temple youth groups, his journey captures how belief quietly answers life's questions. A heartfelt documentary bridging gods and people, offering hope and reflection in a post-pandemic world.

The refracted gaze on Mianhua Islet, Taiwan's eastern de facto border, turns the concrete landscape of physical territory into a mirage of topography and politics. The fragmented image of the frontier reflects the ambivalent state of Taiwanese subjectivity. The camera slowly sweeps over the contour of the islet as if touching the country's body to ensure its existence. The ever-imaginary border that eludes, obscures, and fictionalizes the construction of a nation confronts us with its external mirrored image, as a subject and as a site, where the process and paradox of forming national subjectivity are materialized, embodied, and caught in a liminal space.

Undercover police detective ferociously hunts down drug dealers; bloody lovers fight for their own masters! Drug enforcement police officer Ahren shoulders his mission, venturing deep into the tiger's den, facing an uncertain fate; he infiltrates the side of the brutal drug lord, Brother Chen, only to discover that Brother Chen's own sister is actually his lover. On one side is the love of life and death, the bond of blood; on the other is the mission of drug enforcement, the adherence to justice. Amidst a shocking mystery, good and evil clash, and the forces of good and evil engage in a showdown; in a desperate battle, where should one go?

Ket and Toei, a high school couple, are having an argument about their dreams and their personal desires, which might lead them to go their separate ways.

Animated short film

Through thoughtful letters from prison, an anarchist incarcerated since 1980 reflects on his radical past.

Sometimes, the void becomes a passage to the invisible. The film is a journey in pursuit of that which saturates the forest yet eludes human perception. Flashes and darkness, punctuated by fleeting hues, conspire to capture presences that linger between the present and the yet-to-come. Surrendering to the film's orchestrated rhythm rewards viewers with unprecedented imagery. (Sung MOON)

With the help of a small round robot, an astronaut escapes from a dimly lit prison cell and goes on exploring her surroundings.

Nicknamed the ‘heart of conservatives,’ Gyeongsangbuk-do (North Gyeongsang Province) is the conservative stronghold of Korean politics, having not elected a single liberal Democratic Party member to the National Assembly in the past 30 years. From the 2022 local elections to the 2024 general election, TV-writer-turned-filmmaker Hong Youngah documents the uphill battle of Democratic Party candidates, clad in signature blue jackets, in this ‘land of the red.’

A night watchman encounters an unspeakable force while working at an abandoned building. His struggle for survival exposes a dark truth, dragging his sibling Kai into the terrifying events.

A story about a small garden in an old apartment and the common people who try to protect it.

Returning home, a queer filmmaker finds their mother awakened to a new understanding beyond patriarchy, as the two reconcile amidst a past shaped by unspoken pain.

Using Malaysia’s national flower, the big red flower (the red hibiscus), alongside non-native plants in Taiwan as characters, this collage illustrates the experience of Malaysian Chinese living in Taiwan. Trapped between dual identities and the language of others, they search for self-definition and a sense of belonging. Through the perspective of plants, the work reflects personal life experiences, with the hope of breaking down the boundaries between individual, national, and identity definitions.