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The piece, the artist states, “is like the typical painting lessons of Bob Ross. What I was feeling in the theme of this video is the existential nature of contemporary art (and culture) as well as of artists. A videoart work by South Korean multimedia artist Kim Beom

Duriban, a humble noodle restaurant visited often by lonely indie musicians in a bustling city of Seoul, Korea, was brutally evicted and demolished by greedy construction company and pro-conglomerate-only city government with mere $3,000 as a moving expense. Outraged by the situation and related to their disadvantageous performance and poor contract conditions, 51 and plus indie bands in the area join the long 500 and more days of protest till Duriban receives socio-economically reasonable and acceptable compensation and reopens its new venue in a new in the area. A striking social activism demonstrated among the young indie musicians and their growth as artists through unity in modern day in Seoul, Korea.

The 100th Running Man Championship, which finally started, 7 running men representing each race. In the first round of Bell Hunter, Liu, the representative of the bug tribe, won the victory, followed by the second battle of superpowers. In a survival game in which each person competes using their given superpowers, the player who kept the shield until the end amid repeated alliances and betrayals is Kuga, the representative of the Bars tribe. And in the middle of the night, in the laboratory under the main stadium, something unusual seems to be happening while the tournament organizer Charming Gold is watching.

A sexy comedy about Yoo Sin-ah who finally got a job as a model. However, it's not easy being a model. Studio director Jin-ho and beginner model Sin-ah create a sexy scandal in this awkward comedy.

A short documentary about a Korean high school student preparing for the most important exam she will ever take, an eight hour long college entrance exam.

In early 90s, a group of young woman worked hardly with in factory for their future dreams. However, the international enterprise closed down the factory without a word. Suddenly workers became activists. They struggled all the way from the remote factory in South Korea to their employer's headquarters in Japan. Their action not only hit the company, but also rocked the workers union movement in japan.

Diesel drives an old tram that nobody uses. One day, an old woman rides the tram and wants to go to a station that no longer exists.

When the director of this film attends a Hangul, the Korean alphabet, class for seniors alongside her grandmother, she discovers common marks on their bodies. This is their way to record and remember things because they were excluded from literacy education as children.

Ye-eun, who went to the funeral of a loved one, reunites with her in a place of memories.

The photographer is taking a picture of her and her mother’s nudity. The traces of those days with her mum are left in the eternal frame; as clouds, as waves, as sand.

From 18-year-olds to pre-teens, ten boys are living together at the 'Family' group home. From 2002 to 2013, the boys, who were around ten years old, escaped North Korea and were separated from their families. They are living with the caretaker, Tae-hoon, who dedicates his life to the boys. The film documents an average and special one year of their lives. It doesn't overstress their situation as the defectors from NK, while cheers their new challenges as teens in South Korea. Also, it shows Tae-hoon being estranged from and reconciled with his own family, who is now supporting him and boys.

In 1999, one year before ‘Second Impact’ and SAT, I received a postcard with a drawing of the ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion’ from ‘Y-Sang’. In 2015, the year of ‘Third Impact’, he wrote back to ‘Y-Sang’. ‘Y-Sang’ suggested a discussion about Kant, Nietzsche and Gramsci, but I didn’t know them well. I just called to mind some images related with their name. What connection does exist between the “names” and the “images” I recalled? It’s a weird diceplay about what we can name image(or film).

The weather is so beautiful and shiny today, while Chae-yeon has failed an audition again, Ji-ho has to go to the army next Monday, and You-jeong is quite busy with her term paper and a part-time job. You-jeong notices that her best friend Chae-yeon likes Ji-ho. So she decides to encourage Chae-yeon to confess her love to Ji-ho.

Etsuko meets her husband's old friend Moriyama by chance on the road. She was happy to order her stuff from him, who was selling her futon, and Moriyama visited her house a few days later. When she hears of his pitiful situation, she comforts her, and turns into her beast...

700 days of production, total cost 1 billion won (~US$1 million), total location over 65,430km! From the production that brought 'Tears of Earth", this time it's the world of insects! Bugs have been evolving and surviving on Earth for the past 400 million years. There are about 80 thousand types of recorded insects all around the world. That's three quarters of the total animal population but we don't know much about these insects. We invite you do the shocking world of Korean insects that we have never seen before; live recordings of their instinctive lives, transformation process and war. Let's go on an insect adventure with Kim Seong Joo, the perfect father and his two sons Min Gook and Min Yool.

Kingdom, a condom for convenience stores, is selected and sold by Ji-hoon. Kingdom is presented to hyun-duk, Ji-hoon's lover, but when he wakes up, he finds himself in an unexpected place. What is the final destination of Kingdom?

The documentary of a potter who struggled with fire for his entire life to make a singular piece of crockery and his daughter who developed her own power to inherit the fire from her father. The potter wishes to meet the misfortunate bowl “Maksabal,” which became a national treasure of Japan. On the other hand, his daughter wants the father’s fire. Would their desire be fulfilled?

Sui and Jae Won are a class couple in high school. Then, on Jae won's birthday, Sui worries about not hearing from Jae-won.

A man in the driver's seat waits for his girlfriend to go on a picnic together. He tried to call his girlfriend and tell her where the car is, but she came earlier than he thought.

The son Sato, who is dissatisfied with the stepmother Hikari brought in by his father, makes a dangerous request to a close friend to expel her. Meanwhile, her sister Maya, who follows her stepmother to Sato's house, starts to seduce her brother-in-law by using her massage as an excuse from one night...

Jinwoo, a star BJ on AfreecaTV and a top-ranked online English instructor for the College Scholastic Ability Test, gets into a series accident while live-streaming while drunk. Barely regaining consciousness, he finds himself dying from excessive blood loss. Jinwoo begins to recall his own shameful past, including videos of his mistress on his phone and adult toys in his trunk. To erase them, he begin to drag his injured body.

Combining documentary with experimental video, "Grace Period" documents the activities of female sex workers in the Yeongdeungpo red-light district in Seoul, South Korea. Facing constant police crackdowns and the threat of permanent closure following the opening of a massive shopping complex adjacent to their workplaces, the women of Yeongdeungpo band together in protest. Archival footage, mostly shot by the women themselves, shows their collective efforts as they organize with other sex workers from brothels across the country. In creative and daring acts of resistance, they launch a series of demonstrations that trace a lineage to Korea's democratic union movements of the 1980s-- denouncing the government and corporate interests, demanding decriminalization, and declaring their rights as workers.

The four elements come together as a team to create the Earth. However, the team is increasingly divided due to discord among the team members

Yeon-woo openly talks about her wounds and it is the sense of deprivation that makes Se-jeong feel responsibility for her friend. Their difference makes them complete each other. With a small number of conversations the movie aims to describe the feelings between two women who have a special understanding for each other.

Old ladies who live in San-Bok-Do-Ro, Busan, ought to move out due to Rural Village Redevelopment. With vacated houses more than residents in town, villagers stuck together right until their inevitable separation. The camera gazes old ladies’ moments of parting and what’s left around them.

Young-Hoon (Cheon Bo-Keun), Joon-Yi (Sung Yoo-Bin), Hyun-Soo (Yoon Seok-Hyun) and Whe-One (Hong Yo-Seb) are 14-years-old and friends. They go through a stormy period. Young-Hoon runs away from home, Joon-Yi tries to seduce a married woman through an internet chatting site, Hyun-Soo becomes involved in his father’s death and Whe-One suffers from progeria (rapid aging of children). They decide to go to a club in the Hongik University area. They get excited, but Whe-One’s condition worsens.

The daughter cannot forget the past, and the mother wants to forget it. Although they lived together as a family, they created their own language and enjoyed it alone. They talk about the past and the present.

Unique animation using plain noodles bought at the store. Based on the name 'noodlefish,' this movie delivers the story of a small, naive noodlefish trying to get out of the water by making fish with noodles.

Chan Young (No Joon Ho) and Yoon Hee (Kim Yeon Soo) are the seemingly perfect couple. After over ten years of marriage, they suddenly get divorced, much to the surprise of everyone around them. The reason for their separation is a big mystery. Even after their divorce, Chan Young and Yoon Hee continue to happily see each other as good friends. Their odd relationship comes to another crossroad when Yoon Hee’s old friend Seon Young (Kim Hyun Sook) and her son move in with her.

"Korean defender of law and order, Podori (Korean Police Mascot), starts a new day. Now he is preparing his new legs which are almost ready to be combined to his upper body. He has dreamt of the moment that he shows his father these strong and beautiful legs some day. His new legs are being accomplished! He is so excited to meet his father with his precious invention tomorrow! His father will be very proud of him, he believes. However, rats suddenly appear and attack his legs. He tries to stop them, but they keep on gnawing his almost-ready lower body. He finally decides to fight against the rats."

Sumin pulled her wisdom tooth today.

A prelude on rewriting the history of pathosformel, in which fictional and real characters related to death are documented. One afternoon, a fictional character, Emilia, happens upon a second-hand bookshop. There, she finds an old, discoloured book of poems written by René Laurids Brigge that includes short notes about the death of 19-year-old Wera Ouckama-Knoop, who was a female dance performer. This film is relevant to the first part of the poems.

He likes the girl he met for a second-hand bike trade.

Seung-oh deals with his exam give up and his girlfriend, while he musts live with his father when his mother leave the house...

On the edge of 19, Sang-hyun has a confession to make. He wants to come out to the world.

North Korean defector II Hyun Joo is stateless. Hyun Joo cannot go to school because he has no status and cannot do many ordinary things. Hyeon Joo, who cannot even apply for a fan meeting of her favorite idol singer, decides to borrow her identity for one day as a condition to give a surrogate test to Ju Hee who resembles her.

The main character 'Du-na' is a daily worker who does sales work at the mart. One day, Du-na, who was sick, sends her cat to Mart instead. The company manager, who liked cats that sell goods better than Du-na, dismisses Du-na and hires cat. When she becomes a deadbeat, she visits the cat's mart to get revenge on the cat.

Since my mother was working at the women's rights group, the field of feminism movement was my playground. I grew up as a little feminist who cut her hair short and refused to wear skirts. However, as I got older I experienced things that made me run away from feminism. Eventually, I decided to be a princess rather than a feminist, and started to stick to pink as a survival strategy. Can a person like me can be a feminist again?

'Tale of Blood' is a 19 minute long paper-cut-puppet theater in the style of early silent cinema. It tells the story about the ambiguous relationship between a mother and her daughter. The story involves a midnight adventure through the dark forest, encounters with monsters and a short trip to an erotic dream land. The film is about suppressed female desires, that uncannily return as monstrous doppelgangers within the patriarchal society.

Where do I come From? What am I? Where am I going? Where do we come From? What are we? Where are we going? Life keeps traveling across the universe. A short animation by director Song Yungsung and composer Sato Ayako.

A journey through loss, space and memory. The film commemorates the victims of the tragic Sewol ferry accident, in which 304 out of 476 passengers and crew members died in 2014.

The film consists of four young men at the end of their 20s. Joo-dae, who is preparing to study abroad in Germany, hopes to see his three other friends before his departure. However, Seong-woo seems unreachable. One spring day, having gathered at Kyeong-hwan's for lunch, Joo-dae suggests paying a visit to Seong-woo's place, but the other two disagree. The entangled times from their hasty lives are full of anxiety. Where are they headed to?

A film about women, starting from a small baby and continue to grow up to be a mother.

Late at night long after the last bus has passed, Kyung-sik and Joo-won, are waiting at the bus stop after drinking. Kyung-sik, in a good mood, tries to convince Joo-won to take him home, but Joo-won's expression is still contemplating.

Jongin starts receiving anonymous poems from someone in the cafe he goes to every day. In order to find out which one of the baristas is his secret admirer, he has to observe, analyze and confront each one of them.

Masarap Na Kanta begins like an impressionist painting. A man sits at a table outdoors, which makes the scene look like another uneventful day in the suburbs.

Aksim is a monkey that finds blending in with other monkeys tricky, until one day, the spirit of Chun Ja – a human girl – enters his mind and creates a divide which puts Aksim on a path of no return.

We are 1000 days old couple who decided to break up at the end of this marathon.