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Eun-mo and Sung-Kyung are friends who go to dance classes together. Eun-mo advises Sung-kyung to be honest about love and life. Sung-kyung decides to end a relationship with Eun-mo.

After her mother disappears silently, her father begins to cling to her sister. The younger brother, who knows nothing, meets a whale wandering around the house the night his father shut his sister in.

So-eun is a high-school girl living in the countryside. She’s skinny and quite bad at basketball, but she really likes basketball. The problem is that her school doesn’t have enough players for a team, and they’re trying to dismiss the basketball team. So-eun doesn’t have anybody to share her frustration. Then one day, Yu-jin, a washed up movie actress, and Yong-sik, Yu-jin’s fan who also goes to the same school as So-eun, appear in So-eun’s life. Now, So-eun’s time starts to run quite differently from before.

7 years ago, Namo, installation artist in Beijing, fell and lay unconcious in a stroke, cerebral infarction. He recovered after strenuous rehabilitation period and came to Jeju Island for his exhibit. He met Moonsoo, who planned and designed his exhibit and came across the lives of the people in Jeju. He came to look back on his past and began to vaguely figure out the reasons of his confusing life. His wife who left without any notice, Moonsoo who still hurts in his heart from what Namo did to him 7 years ago, the town mayor who chose suicide after telling his lifetime secret to Namo, and Artist Namo himself who is still confused about his exhibit topic, the dog eating shadows, through which he wanted to describe a dog that eats a person's hope by eating his shadows. Namo went back to Beijing and was faced with the reasons of his confusion...

Middle aged Jang-Pil lives in a small one room apartment in Shinrim-dong. In the past, he might have studied for his bar exam, but now he makes a living by collecting junk, managing the apartment building he lives in and also makes wooden dolls to sell. One day he lends money to a young man in the same apartment building, but the man ends up taking his job. Jang-Pil is also tricked by a woman he met in the neighborhood.

Han Jae, who pretends to be a gay, lives off of cheating homosexuals. He gathers up gays by online chatting and overcharges them for the drinks, teaming up with the boss of a pub. And there is Hoon, a cute boy who seems to be attractive to gays, and Han Jae tells people that Hoon is his partner, which is not true. At the same time, Han Jae tries to ignore Hoon's feelings for him.

A South Korean mother and daughter are in London (UK) for 10-year-old Hyun-ah’s ballet tour. Hyun-ah wants to be free from her mother’s pressure, neither of them understand each other. Tension simmers as events unfold before, during and after a show.

A whole new world meets you. Lee Dong-woo gets a call that someone is donating a retina to him. Lee Dong-woo meets this donor who can't move at all and can only see right ahead of him, then they plan a trip together. These men are the breadwinners of their families with beautiful daughters. They go to Jeju Island and learn a little bit about each other. The two start filling up each others' holes and find each other feeling comforted.

A Zen believes in Buddhism and abides by the Gateless Gates. How does one pass by these Gateless Gates? To find spiritual enlightenment, Monks from all over head to Mountain Oh Dae and perform asceticism to find peace and pass through the gates.

A young preist that hears the confession of a man who years before, drunk behind the wheel of his car, ran over a man and killed him on the walkway. He didn't give himself up to the ploice, but ran away from the accident site. For years, his conscience tortured him, reminding, above all, that man's child crying desperately. What he didn't know is that this child grew up and became a priest, the priest who was hearing his confession. The ending is unpredictable.

Four actors rehearse the role of zombies. These women, who have blurred the acts of acting and life, are creating documentary theater on the theme of the "nation and the individual," peeling away their consciousness. They include in their work the real world in which it is set, their identities as female actors and working people, debates about their labor being exploited, and even them acting out their daily lives—all at the same time that the director is making a film with them. How are the play and the film realized at the end?

For a thousand days from 2015 to 2018, JANG captured the magnificent scenery of Jeju Island in his film. It doesn’t contain plot or dialogue, but its beautiful images and music, composed by Okja music director Chung Jaeil, will engage your eyes and ears.

An actress who lives a busy life with her baby receives a call for an audition from a famous director’s production team.

Taewoo, an illegal Private lender, who is still looking for debtors, accidentally meets a missing child in the underground passageway.

Won-sang finds out his “love tax” has been withdrawn from his account, even though he had reported his breakup. The counselor says he can get a refund after a check-up only if he sees his ex at least once. So, he reluctantly goes to see Min-jeong.

In Nanyang fishing village, lives a girl who loves Korean culture. She then meets and fall in love with a man from South Korea. He brings hope and joy to her imperfect reality, even as he faces his own biggest dread - a brain tumour. However, an incident at the village suddenly causes him to turn multilingual and able to converse with people from various races.

The film consists of three episodes under the theme of “violence”. Episode 1. Min-Ho Win! The owner of the gas station asks Min-ho to do some errands. Not knowing what is ahead of him. Episode 2. Making Film In a place where a film about snuff-film is being made, a war of nerves between an actor and a director leads to a real violence Episode 3. My Fighting Life Standing by the side of the strong, Do-kyeong wins a fight but after being left alone, he is defeated in the end.

Working in the same documentary team, Jin-seong and Mira receive a call that they should go shooting again right after a night shooting. Jin-seong driving a car asks Mira to shoot some insert shots because he should get some sleep when arriving. Mira takes insert shots with the camera that she handles for the first time. Soon, she falls into the world of the frame.

One day, detective Incheol (Jung Chan) visits Wido. The island is high with hopes for redevelopment as it has been designated as a cultural tourism trial site. Incheol was dispatched to the island to determine the cause of Jong-gu's death who is thought to have been killed in a landslide. But from the first day of his arrival, the islanders' behavior struck Incheol as strange. They wanted him to quietly conclude the case and leave. Incheol, who would even accept dirty money to treat his wife's illness, decides to leave. That night, another case of suicide takes place and Incheol could feel that the residents' bizarre behavior and the series of accidents are not irrelevant. Now, Incheol's investigation reveals the dirty truth the islanders have been hiding.

A desperate, lonely man and a homeless woman with a baby cross paths in this offbeat slice of life piece.

A letter arrives in every house on Sorok Island on the 23rd of November 2005. The letter read the last words of two nurses. "Being old means not being able to work well and saying goodbye..." These women who came to the island in their 20s left just like that... Marianna and Margaret are two angels who took care of leprosy patients for 43 years. We take a look back at these two people's love for 43 years.

A couple applying to a childbirth program for infertile couples give birth to a child with wings A couple fleeing from a mob trying to retrieve their child enter a remote village.

The unemployed father kills his time in the library to escape the heat. His son is in the same library, studying for the civil service exam that he's been preparing for the past few years. These two "losers" go to the same library but pretend not to notice one another. The father secretly picks apricots from the tree in the backyard of the library. The son is displeased with his father.

Actor #1 is a mid-aged actor who used to be famous yet fails to accept the world has changed. Without being able to understand him, his son tells him to adapt to the reality; however, Actor #1 feels bitter about his son’s advice. One day, he has one last chance to audition for a part. At the audition venue, he bumps into Actor #2 in shabby clothes whom he spent his golden years with.

Bok-Nam (Park Yoo-Sun) is an elementary school student who feels like she just doesn't fit in. She lives with her family that consists of her grandmother (Kim Ji-Young) with Alzheimer's disease, mother (Lee Mi-Young) who runs a chicken restaurant, unemployed father (Lee Sung-Min) and bully older sister (Nam Bo-Ra). Bok-Nam is not happy with her family. One day, she begins to think that she is Flashman, who came from outer space, and she wants to return to her place of origin.

Yeong-hoon is a 13-year-old boy who leaves his house not being able to stand his father’s abuse anymore. He has no place to go so he takes the subway to Oido and there he meets Hyeon-soo, a orphan the same age as him. Hyeon-soo has already been to the Detention Center for Teenagers and his rough actions causes Yeong-hoon to feel aspiration and depend on him. One day, Hyeon-soo’s girlfriend Han-na gets pregnant so Hyeon-soo and Yeong-hoon heads to Seoul Station, where rugged kids like them live in a group...

Jin-sik, Kang-young, and Eung-il were living like losers in a semi-basement room. Then one day, an unknown delivery box falls at the door of this room. When Eung-il opens the box, Point Man, a four-dimensional monster, pops out with a Penrose triangle. The Point Man unilaterally informs them that a contract has been signed with the Galactic Federal Lone Star Lifespan Bank, but when they refuse to sign the contract, the Point Man kidnaps Jin-sik, Kang-young, and Eung-il into space with their house. They fight desperately with the point man to return to Earth...

Homeless Man-sik has a home. He arrived at home after begging all day. He shaved his head and took a shower at home. Getting in the bed, he heard sudden sound of woman's heels.

Choi-hyeok, a CF director who achieved so much at a young age considers his daughter, Mi-na, as his driving force. However, Mina feels as if her father’s lover, Min-jeong, is only dating him for his money and looks, hence, they don’t get along so well. One day, Mi-na and Min-jeong met on set, and while they were in the middle of a fierce fight, their souls exchanged.

Dayeon plans to move due to the strange noise coming from next door.

Wasteful, filthy toilet at the back of an illicit horse racing gambling place. A neatly dressed Ho-Jun comes in. He looks around the bathroom and what he sees leaves him speechless. He decides to clean the toilet.

A photograph taken in 2012 of people on board a boat after swimming at the beach is made into an oil painting in 2013. Finally, the photograph and the painting are made into a film. The director presents parts of artistic pieces by zooming on each work, before showing the entirety later. Under the same title, the photograph and painting convey instants and stories captured in different media, and the film becomes a medium that integrate the other ones based on enriched narrativity.

It is youth that consists of many failures and many happy ends, and makes you break into tears in one moment and then smile when you think about it. Definitely everybody has their youth in the course of their life.

Meet four Taiwanese women, the actual "leftover ladies" fighting to stay breathing in a somewhat stifling society. Since 2012, their friend in common, Chou Tung-yen, has been "stalking" them, capturing on film moments of these women's daily lives.

Junho, a grade school student, is left all alone after his mom’s car accident. His half-brother’s father takes pity on him and brings him home. Knowing that he can be kicked out any day, Junho tries desperately to stay.

Documentary focuses on Sona, the daughter of the director’s brother who moved to North Korea from Japan in the early 1970s. Through Sona, the film shows the generation that migrated from Japan to North Korea and their offspring who were born and raised in North Korea.

Juhyuk is taking a short rest with his camera halfway up the mountain, when he is approached by Mija to take pictures of her. They start to climb together while he snaps photos.

Woo-hyun lives a small time criminal life earning his life with pick-pocket. He often pays attention to an arrow-shaped-tattoo of his girlfriend which is on the genital area. He calls it 'the emergency exit.' Adopted Kim Young-ha's Emergency exit, the film captures helpless lost generation of current Korea.

A man goes home after a long time while away from his family. The daughter's phone call around the time of his arrival starts to tighten him.

On an ordinary day, Yoon-jin(26) finds Ji-hoon(14) crouching down on a stair in the hallway in front of her house.

The man on the bench is called, and the woman who is watching him from a distance approaches the man and tells him how he came.

Myung-hyun, an elementary school teacher, finds out that one of her students, Chang-jin still has not paid for the after-school program. When she confronts him, he tells her he left the money on her desk. However, the money is nowhere to be found.

In Seoul, a Korean girl is passing the French oral exam DELF. Yet the examiner’s questions lead her to speak unexpectedly about her difficult family story. With the stress, her low level of French gets worse, then unconsciously, she starts to express herself with gestures.

The scattered families gather and visit their mother.

Recording a 24-hour period throughout every country in the world, we explore a greater diversity of perspectives than ever seen before on screen. We follow characters and events that evolve throughout the day, interspersed with expansive global montages that explore the progression of life from birth, to death, to birth again. In the end, despite unprecedented challenges and tragedies throughout the world, we are reminded that every day we are alive there is hope and a choice to see a better future together. Founded in 2008, it set out to explore our planet's identity and challenges in an attempt to answer the question: Who are we?

IM Kwon-taek is a Korean film-maker. He was born in 1934 when his country was under Japanese occupation. When Korean War was over his parents became North Korean partisan, and he ran away from home. He’s made 101 films since he made his debut in 1962 with Farewell Doman River. He tasted the glory at Cannes Int’l Film Festival with Chiwhasun. However making the 102nd film seems harder than ever to this 80-year-old director. His 2 projects have been suspended. He still can’t find chance to make his 102nd film, but spends daily routine free from film-making. This is a recording of years that the film-maker spends without making a film.

Sung-hwan, who returned from Italy, reunites with Kyo-hwan.

Director Lee Jun-ik is one of the most diligent and fastest directors. He doesn't even walk on set. He runs more than the youngest staff member. He is busy with all his life and he makes an offer to him. Don't leave the motel room you use as your dorm for a day when there's no filming.

Hoo-jung’s wife goes to New Zealand while he continues working at home as a teacher. However, he soon receives the tragic news that she has passed away. Intriguingly, his wife sent him a movie script before her passing which will lead Hoo-jung into some unexpected events.

Owwwww…that’s really not a good place to be joined at!