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samyeong daesa devoted himself to saving the country and its people amidst the harsh reality during the Japanese invasions of Korea. Samyeong Daesa's life itself was a quest and asceticism. On the occasion of Buddha's birthday, we reflect on the conflicts of the time and shed light on the path of compassion and Bodhisattva that he sought.

Inhye and Seolyeong are sisters. Seol-young is in love with Sang-woo and In-hye is in love with Wan-jin. While the two are talking about their lover, they accidentally find out that the sister's boyfriends are high school classmates, and ask about the sister's boyfriend...

Jin-wook is a 35-year-old actor wannabe. His wife So-yeong supports his dream and waits for him, but she slowly gets tired of his lack of economic capacity. So he decides to make his own movie and gathers his university friends, using his apartment fee as collateral. So-yeong tears the set apart and with no sound equipment left, Jin-wook creates a silent film.

Mother meets her son. When he was a little boy, he liked banana milk. And he quit his swimming class because of swimming goggles in his elementary school days.He went on a school trip when he was a high school student and never came back. She is still waiting for her son.

A documentary film about the production process of "Shooting Star" created by installation artist Seo Do-ho's creative ideas.

A mundane summer holiday, two young brothers left in the remote country watch the Bushman video and play the Bushman game in the woods. One day, the little brother Eun-ho comes across a strange man and plays the Bushman game with him.

In a different generation that holds similarities to this one, our fathers who had dreams and hopes beyond the poverty began their youths suffering from unemployment and struggling to earn money. However, they say those times were like Utopia. They even say they are sorry for not being able to present youths today with the same experiences. They were known as 'work animals' because all they did was work, but they proudly say did that to feel accomplished at the end of the day. It was a world where the working environment was decent. However, once the jobs that they spent their whole youths on disappeared, they reminisced over them in silence. They are trying to return the favor to their families now. This documentary is the confession from our fathers who devoted everything to work.

Maria turns around, the strange woman with a familiar scarf appeals to her attention. And the woman, coupled with a man looks coming in the direction to her.

Nakamura Rui' is the editor-in-chief and managing director of a well-known publishing company. Although she has a history of failed marriages in the past and a crooked son, she is nonetheless a career woman who thrives in the industry with quick judgment. Then one day, 'Nakamura Rui' meets 'Suzuki Kou', who is 17 years younger than him, and falls in love with her. But the problem is that he is a married man who is already married to another woman. As their meeting deepens, their love begins to run toward ruin... .

A journey that encounters the dead of the Vietnam War and the Iran-Iraq War. As if in a dream, the film moves along various routes formed by scars and fractures, and mediates the realm between the living and the dead.

Lee Yeon works as a female secretary at a company that pays a high salary. The company is a VIP room of a hotel, not an officetel. She asks Lee Yeon-eun about her senior Da-hye, but she is cynical. Then one day, she finds out that she has to match the director's strange sexual preferences to survive as a secretary. After contemplating whether she should leave or stay, she finally decides that she stays with the company and does her best. Working hard in her company life, she gets to know her manager's tendencies, and she learns deeply about what he wants and what he likes. Then one day, Lee Yeon witnesses the scene of an affair between the chief and Dahye...

One day after coming home from class, Najima hears his father Teruo talking to a woman in the living room. Don't head into the living room thinking you've got a new girl. Teruo introduces his new woman to his son. As soon as they greet each other half-heartedly and make eye contact with their father's woman, they are speechless. Her father's new woman was Rie, a college classmate whom Nazima dated two years ago. She met Teruo, who worked at a bar to earn money after her father died and her mother collapsed. Speaking of which, I recall the old memories of Najima.

SM, Young, and Moong Chi are members of Dong Hak Peasantry Punk Band. They´re not happy with their arbitrary leader Ronda. Though they set out to create Korean punk in the spirit of the Dong Hak Revolution, they’re too burdened by life and work. The film presents an unlikely combination of a punk band and a countryside village. The punk spirit that opposes the system and old customs gives them a reason to go on. This comedy of losers shows how they despair but rise again even in the cold light of reality.

A drunken man and a woman battered by her husband, and her husband gather and make a fuss in the police substation. A young policeman who just broke up with his girlfriend cannot afford to listen to the drunken man. A middle-aged policeman is confused while inquiring the battered wife and her husband who can't understand why his wife left him. The police substation is lit up like a lighthouse at the corner of the city people are confined in, and the wave of the people's episodes flows like a river.

Su-mi is ridiculed for writing fantasy epic dramas in scenario class. Eui-gun shoots alone after the actor and staff run away. Su-mi suddenly helps Eui-gun.

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

Animated short from Fla at the Sticky Monster Lab - tells the story of a loner whose life changes when he meets man's best friend.

The world where everyone leaves for the moon to look for his/her mate. Although, a lonely Nerd wanted to meet his mate, no one was interested in him. He met Dungchi who was in similar situation as him, he got ignored even by him.

Min-ji wrote screen play at her university until mid night. One day, Min-ji hears screams.

Ganaa and Solongo have been married for 10 years but they still don’t have a child. It seems like their life is not complete without a child. One day Ganaa leaves the town for a business trip. While he is gone, Solongo goes to fortune teller with her friend Odko. Fortune teller told Solongo that her last chance of having a baby is before she reaches 33 years old, which is in 4 days. Now Solongo has to choose between going after her husband or follow the advice of Odko, finding an another guy to have a baby.

In the 2016 single channel video Sleigh Ride Chill, Kim Heecheon combines three different aesthetics and themes a live-streaming session of a video game play, an online suicide club and a cautionary tale of a leaked sex tape, which come to represent the subject in a digital world in South Korea: decentered, disembodied, and disarticulated through video gaming, face swapping, virtual reality. Sleigh Ride Chill features both filmed and found footage with CGI to comment upon the soulless state of mankind in contemporary Seoul where losing a smartphone means losing everything.

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.

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.

A man causes an accident throwing an ice-cream.

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.

Three women connected by fragile memories and vague associations. Director Noh spins her poetic family story between Korea and Japan, beyond the historical scope of the war.

The story of Koreans stranded in Russia after the war who dream of being buried back home.

SF movie, Mr. Gang is a raising star of next generation. But it is hard to get a chance to release his movie in Korea, wasteland for SF movie.

A man walks into a foreign neighborhood to look for a house. Then, the drastic summarization of the story and time will confuse the audience at first, but it brings suspense and a deeply lingering impression to the story. There is more that is unseen than visible. This intentional void prompts various emotional interpretations. During that time, what sort of moments and stories did the man and the house share? Since the guessing is left to the audience, we are left to remember, not the man’s, but our own personal memories. Hanyang villa or whatever else, that’s what houses do – they are where our memories dwell.

In a world going to apocalyptic hell, the last hope might be a grandpa with a special broom and vacuum. Maybe.

This is the story about a cat with a boy's mind and a mouse with a girl's mind. They try to escape from a wicked tamer of a circus. A mouse takes a risk to save a cat.

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).

In April 1920, the Japanese army slaughtered Koreans living in Vladivostok. They also executed Korean revolutionaries such as Kim Afanasi and Alexandra Petrovna Kim before the forced migration of 1937. The scenes of Korean genocide in Ussuriysk and Vladivostok make up the exile trilogy prequel, and archives history on screen.

Hyeon-gak, an American monk who graduated from Harvard University, took the lead in promoting Korean Buddhism overseas. This video was produced in 2013, so it was before I left Korean Buddhism in 2016.

A man brings a drunk woman to a motel.

I would like to see the past and the present overlapping. What will the outcome be?

A pious old woman lives alone in her home, her family rarely coming to visit her. Will his prayers alleviate his loneliness?

Kim Hyeong-kyeong and Lee Dong-won have been waiting to get pregnant for the past 2 years, For them to succeed, the fertile egg must meet one healthy sperm out of 300 million sperms within 24 hours. In fact, this kind of pregnancy method only has a 30% chance of succeeding and there are many obstacles in the way.

Jae-hoon, who came to rest at her villa after a long time, vows to lead her celibate life, calls a housekeeper to clean up her boredom. Soon, a beautiful housekeeper comes into the house, and he has an amazing experience. When she touches water, her body reacts, and she sends a secret signal to the woman as well. I don't understand, but Jae-hoon feels a strong attraction to her. But he learns that the beautiful housekeeper has a shocking secret...

Intern Mimi has to be on duty on the wedding day of her boyfriend Jung-hoon. Hearing about her story, Mimi’s co-worker Mr. Kim comes to her aid.

Ayoung Kim’s enchanting film Petrogenesis, Petra Genetrix (2019) takes the viewer on a journey through hyperbolic mythology based on a fictional genderless mineral Petra Genetrix. Through this character, Kim explores the Mongolian animist belief that positions land, mother rock, stones, and sacred caves at the center of their universe. By likening rocks and stones as the Earth’s memory storage vessel, the work illuminates the futurist potential of animism: “Quartz can be considered to be a type of natural computer since it absorbs and stores a large amount of energy“. The traditional spirituality oriented towards land or ancient animism reveals the potential equivalence between primeval objects and the futuristic memory sphere.

Once a woman can't stop crying, she gets hired as a weeping woman in the funeral.

Some soldiers never get to leave the battlefield behind.

A documentary on a Korean painter Lee Jungseob. After the Korean War broke out, Lee and his family left Wonsan to flee to Jeju. While his wife and sons stay in Tokyo, Lee settles in Busan by himself.

다이코터미 refers to the dichotomy between memory of place and gaze. The film represents medium-specific noise and fragments created about a specific city beyond memory. The same place, but different perspectives and fragmented molecules discontinuously reorganize the order and indicators of space and time. The two different directions of gaze and time and space are imitations of each other. The noise generated by the characteristics of the 16mm film medium expresses the fragmented molecules of memory in time and space.

The female host and husband played by Xiangshan Meiying worked at her brother's company. My brother always had a bad thought about this younger brother. Because her husband made a mistake, the younger brother could only ask for help in front of his brother, and the evil brother came up with it. A variety of ways to make the woman blushing, let the woman step by step ...

Captain Kang is a story about a man who happened to live a dreamlike life and another man who lost his dream by an accident that changed the lives of both men forever. With two aging fishermen, KANG goes on fishing every day and night as if only the weight of a fishnet proved his existence in the world. KANG's teenage son Jong-Jae, a promising baseball talent is now living with his parents while unenthusiastically supporting his father's business. Having lost his dream, Jong-Jae feels that his life in a small harbor city is suffocating while KANG moans inwardly for the son, as he feels responsible for it. The two men's respect and affection toward each other is not spoken outweighed by the guilt and responsibility for each other. As the winter nears, hiring a sailor becomes hard and Jong-Jae is forced to be on his father's ship. In the middle of the sea, the father and the son realize that there is nobody else but each other to rely on.

A director returns to her hometown of Chuncheon to tell her family's personal story.

A young person in their 20s sets off to find their real dream.