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Finding out an inventory discrepancy in his stocktaking, a clerk takes a special control procedure.

Five people who have failed in life attempt suicide, but they fail for a variety of reasons. One day, they receive a business card and text message from Well Dying Company. "Is it hard to live? We help you to die happily". The five people who headed to Ulsan visit tourist attractions for three days and two nights, experience a well-dying project that allows them to die happily at a place designated by them, and see a new world.

Gwanno Mask Theater, folklore scholar Dong-gwon Dong-gwon, who has disappeared since 1909, goes to and from Gangneung to restore the broken Kwan-no Mask Theater, but it is difficult to find the trace as it was performed by the slaves of government offices during the Joseon Dynasty. One day, Dong-gwon finds out that Deuk-chul, a member of a prestigious family from Gangneung, is related to the Gwanno Mask Theater and goes to the house of Deuk-chul...

A 100% pure, infinitely positive influencer who showed a cheerful life, came back with a creepy ghost story?!

In the 1980s, the small theatre movement took place in Taiwan. Jixing and Wang Mo-lin, the two main characters in the film participated in this non-mainstream, anti-government, and rather a radical movement, and thus memories have stayed deeply in their hearts. They witnessed the historic moment of the end of a long, nearly 40-year martial law.

A short by Chen Qiuli.

A short movie featuring all main Kamen Riders, from 1971 to 2021, dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the franchise.

The deserted street in this city. A stalled train crashed into an abandoned apartment. A lot of girls rush out of the train and shamelessly destroy the rooms in this apartment. They interrupt the boys' serenity and look like a deer in the headlights. The different rooms symbolize different thoughts and construct the building looks like a boy. Come back down to earth, the boy is obsessed with the girl. (The moment while I saw you just like a train rushed into my brain.)

In the summer of the third year of college, Naoya vaguely heads for job hunting. One summer night he meets his friend Yasu and talks with him about fears and hope for the future. As the night grows late, their conversation gets deeper and deeper.

Directed by Kazuhiro Abe.

Life is always as light as a butterfly dance, meeting, separating, birth and death, seem to be just the gentle flapping in the wing. But even if the life is light like this, is it really impossible to leave any traces?

A short omnibus movie that shows various perspectives on human anxiety and fear.

Despite forming a natural part of the life of half the world’s population, menstruation is still a taboo in many countries. The film A Bloody Taboo shows just how stigmatized it is in Japan. The intimate testimonies of a large sample of women reveal that the unwillingness of the patriarchal society to lead an open dialogue about the monthly menstruation is just a symptom of a bigger problem that is gender discrimination.

Kwang-Ja Lee, a counsellor at ‘Lifeline Korea’ has been listening to anonymous people’s stories for 45 years. Every day, she is all ears to stories that cannot be shared anywhere else. Image and sound react to it and creates new reflective space that seems to be the bottom of one’s heart.

As soon as the newlyweds pass, Mi-young feels regret about her relationship with Woo-hyun. She thinks she gets married at a young age and she loses herself. She thinks that Woo-hyeon just thinks that she can do well, but she thinks that Mi-yeong is rather like that, and she doesn't want to live like this anymore, so she leaves Woo-hyun. Woo-hyeon, who falls into her disappointment, happens to meet Bora, whom she had a crush on before, and they drink together..

In the first scene, two men stand outside of a car, waiting for the air conditioner to cool down the vehicle. As one puts on some house music using the car’s CD player, their silence is broken into a state of indescribable feelings. In the second scene, shot on Super 8 film, a person tries to recount a story as he spins a pen around in his hands. As he narrates the story which he cannot fully remember, he ponders this unusual amnesia. In the third scene, also filmed on Super 8, focuses on two pairs of hands cutting each other’s nails, the caring yet sensitive gesture were echoed by the intertitles. Improvised with a non-white cast, featuring queer and asian bodies, these fragmented memories, uneasy gossip, and moments of silence, center on one key question: When the idea of an individual subject cannot take form, how might we reconsider being visible, audible, or legible?

In English and Chinese, the word "clue (线索)" contains reference to "threads." This work creates a virtual space with a library as the backdrop, while using the image of "threads" throughout the film. The library, as a symbol of order, contains the collection and organization of human knowledge, while the linear forms have the dual possibility of both chaos and order. The combination of and tension between the images of books, globes, ropes, knots, chains, and the statue of Sleeping Ariadne refers to the act of people finding their way through the network of information.

Theatre company actor Kikutaro Oyamada makes his living providing a proxy service in which he pretends to be whatever role is asked of him. One day, a woman named Utsumi requests he play her wildlife photographer husband who has gone missing and spend time with her father-in-law over the New Year holiday.

A monk can’t pray because of a painful toothache. Faced with the pressure of society and with his own faith, what can he do to face up to the situation?

"The story of cows who didn't become meat." In 2002, people called bullfight a tradition and defined it as legal. At the same time, various bullfighting competitions were held and a huge gambling house was built. They dragged the cows into a huge amphitheater and made them fight. The gambling tickets were sold like hotcakes and fanfare burst everywhere. In the midst of it, something that is not a human being is bleeding, crying, and shedding tears. However, no one seems to be interested. On the endless truck, bulls shyly sticking out their heads speak to the camera. "By the way, can you listen to my story?“

Filmed during lockdown, Back to Back is a performance film about care centred around a phone conversation between a cleaning agency employee and a woman trying to empty a locked fridge. When the two women meet-up they engage in a strange dance through the streets of Seoul, locked together back-to-back in a movement of mutual support and dependence.

This work explores the issue of digital heritage that has arrived. I imagined a career as a data encoffiner, using her perspective to examine the data that people have left in the world. Digital heritage carries the memories of the dead, the sorrows and joys... For the clues, we follow the path of the data grave to explore the secrets of a person’s memory.

Doomsday Video is a fictional archive of the on-going 2020 and an instruction for the doomsday.

Black Sun X : Casper, Witch, and Handstanderus traces the trajectory of catastrophes from their nascence to the present. It weaves together fragments of loosely connected narratives under 'Black Sun X' that implies constantly swelling catastrophes. This work consists of three narratives; Casper who was a beloved comic character in popular culture, Witch-hunt that occurred during the transition period between feudalism and capitalism after the wake of Black Death (and still remains in today's disturbing situation), and 'Handstanderus' who is a group of people trying to find new ways of thinking through plants.

What does excluding someone mean to us? Why is it wrong to exclude someone? It is easy to perform exclusion and elimination. But taking the easy way out, it always brings problems. Those who are considered "non-existent." Among them, children are the most easily discriminated against. A story about a No-Kids Zone that prohibits children from entering, and about children that society wants to consider as "non-existence."

Hollywood musicals on a massive scale are pleasing to our eyes and ears. But the more I watch them, the more I wonder why there aren't many musical films in Korea. This documentary goes to meet the directors who researched and made musical films in Korea, a wasteland of musical films, and also tells the story of a student who takes on the challenge of filming a musical from the perspective of young people, based on his research and interviews with those directors.

The space where people live is not just a place to feed and house themselves. It means a place where the emotions of life are accumulated and melted for a long time. Therefore, we call it home or hometown. Home or hometown, which expresses coziness and comfort to people, is just an unfamiliar expression to those who live in Onsan. The people of Onsan resemble dandelions, who cannot take root in their place of living and float like dust.

My mother, Gyeongja , who celebrated her 60th birthday in the Year of the White Rat (called "Gyeong Ja year" in Korean) according to the Chinese zodiac, got divorced after 29 years of marriage. She leaves the city where she lived and moves from place to place in search of work. With my heart for my mother in such a situation, I stay with her and start making a film. Following my mother's story that I shared with her late at night, I look back on the past year filled with many worries and sensations.

A group of first-degree visually impaired (fully blind) people spontaneously formed the "Mind Music Club", preparing to hold the band's first offline ticket concert. The society gives them too much prejudice, and they don't even have the right to go to the playground to relax and play···. They want to let more people hear the voice of their hearts through singing.

A father has been fighting for the rights of his daughter since she consumed tainted milk powder, yet fails to be understood. With a focus on the connection between father and daughter, the director returns to her own family, discussing love and growth. All of these efforts started with an experience dated back to her childhood.

The name of this film refers to the lectures of two Japanese writers Yasunari Kawabata and Kenzaburō Ōe. In their Nobel prize speeches, directed at the Western audience, they meditate on the Japanese identity and how it correlates with their oeuvre. Tomotosi plays up this classic heritage. The artist delicately intervenes in city rituals via six performances and records his fellow citizens' reactions. In this way, he dissects daily life and the unwritten rules of social interaction in Japan.

A traditional hairdresser named Uncle Leng Hong tried to get through this pandemic situation so he rented out half of his barber shop to become a variety shop. The variety shop worker named Ming Hao went to Uncle's barber shop and he wanted to know more about him.

The Dink couple have an unwanted pregnancy. And they meet a broker who helps with real estate subscriptions

A group of four girlfriends stash a letter in a time capsule when they were 15 years old. In ten years they would see each other again at Christmas and open the capsule again. But things turn out differently when one of the four falls seriously ill.

Short film by Ryushin Suzuki

At dark night, a girl in an alley has her gift back from a woman, which she didn’t want.

The ‘Fumble Studio’, featuring 8 short films tied together, was created between 2013~2020. There are works that are created after organizing the exact scenario and stories that are constructed while creating the works. Most are about contradictions, stress and hypocrisy that have been experienced while working. After all, It was all about me.

A black comedy about an unidentifiable strange creature that will satisfy the desires of those who seek fear for sheer pleasure.

PP Daddy is a hardworking office clerk who, pressured by family duties and overtime, never had a chance to fulfill his dreams. One day, during a lunch break nap, a dream takes him back to a childhood drawing competition…

This film explores the "craftsman's spirit”, focusing on how the last generation of shipbuilders found emotional sustenance in their trade and the merging of traditional arts and crafts with new modern technologies.

The COVID-19 pandemic is having a devastating impact on numerous sporting activities. This film describes the hurdles company manager Cheong Wai and his assistant, boxer Cheong Lap Cheong, are facing together. With the near prospect of shutting down the boxing academy they run, how will they survive such a tough challenge?

A documentary on five single women living in cities.

This video series is based on Shasei-cho, a sketchbook by Okyo Maruyama (1733-1795, Japan). The Shasei-cho was copied by various other artists and became a fundamental reference for how Japanese perceive and record the natural world. 蝶 Butterfly was created by photographing actual butterflies in super-slow motion with reference to the composition and drawing style of the Shasei-cho. Each movement is a reflection of the butterfly's behavior, characteristics and personality at the time. This work is a modern-day Shasei-cho that I observed and recorded based on the techniques of the great painters of the past.

Short animation by Holly Lo

A teenager living with her grandparents questions her sexual orientation when she starts bonding with a classmate.

In our life, we are afraid of death and want to catch the most important person or the best time of our life, however, we can’t control that, but we need to face that bravely. The story emphasises the message about the cycle of life, relationship, and connection between family and generation and the concept of Chinese death. The thesis of the story is about growing and finding the meaning of death.

A phenomenon wherein people of different races sing a Filipino song in spite of being unfamiliar with the language in a Catholic church in Taiwan. Discover the spectacle of how a community has been unified that breaks cultural and language differences through music and religion.