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A prismatic exploration recounting the 1950s visit of Parisian elites led by Chris Marker and Claude Lanzmann in the newly formed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the communist state that claims the allegiance of the filmmaker’s grandmother during the Korean War.

A woman who wants to return the gift her boyfriend gave her.

A bright red desk and a blue pencil. Skulls, cups, and a modular synthesizer. When you sit at the desk, they appear. With fluffy purple bodies, they're called "Desk Bugs."

Seok-hoon, an unemployed man preparing to become a film director, is visited by his ex-girlfriend Su-jin. He asks for her feedback on the script he wrote. The scenario is about the real-life love story of Seok-hoon and Su-jin. Seok-hoon does not want this story to go out into the world.

Minseo, a 17-year-old girl, got asked out by her best friend Yujin. Minseo Couldn't turn her down clearly because of her weak-minded and insecure condition, and Yujin misunderstands it as positive sign.

This film creates a "video mixtape" by assembling fragments from over 50 films produced by the now-defunct Korean film company Nama-jinheung between the late 1960s and early 1990s. Through these carefully curated scenes, it captures the inner landscape of Koreans during the Cold War and the era of rapid economic growth, offering a unique reflection of a nation in transformation.

Geun-seong, a streamer who aspires to achieve great popularity, meets Jongman, a famous comedian and YouTuber, at a high school reunion. Fueled by alcohol, he confidently proposes a collaboration, hoping to leverage Jong-man's fame to boost his own broadcast. However, Jong-man rejects the offer, leaving Geun-seong feeling humiliated. In his drunken state, Geun-seong exposed the school violence he suffered at Jong-man's hands on his own broadcast. When he wakes up sober, he discovers that the exposé video has become a viral comedy video instead!

In the winter following her college entrance exams, 19-year-old Yurim wanders the streets with her best friend Seonmi, who ran away from her broken home.

On a summer night in a residential Seoul neighborhood, a delivery person moves slowly in the dark between rows of closed doors, waiting for a ping to inform them of their next destination.

When a middle-aged son takes his ailing father out to a bathhouse to refresh their past connection, a young garrulous caregiver tags along and could perhaps replace his place.

Se-eun is a janitor who is always the first to arrive at the pool where she works. One day, she runs into an old friend who is now a swimming instructor.

There is an old cinema in Wonju, and some people want to preserve the historic cinema. But the mayor wants to demolish a 60-year-old cinema. How will this story end? No matter how it ends up, Wonju Academy Cinema is a film about people who love old and historic single-screen cinema.

Despite her mother Jiyeon's objections, daughter Siwoo brings home a trial version of a robot clone of her deceased father, Dojun. Seeing the Dojun robot replicate even the smallest of Dojun's habits stirs complex emotions within her.

Inyeop returns to her long-abandoned hometown to find her mother, who suddenly stopped contacting her. As she arrives at the distant island, rumors about a missing girl spread. Inyeop discovers a bloodied girl in her mother's wardrobe.

In a typical rural landscape stands a pansori memorial hall, a place now ignored even by local residents. Eunsol, granddaughter of the once-renowned pansori master Park Manchun, has silently guarded this place, becoming like a relic of the past herself. Eunsol, who occasionally performs pansori for tourists, one day finds herself singing along to beats produced by Sijung, a hip-hop musician of similar age who has secretly snuck into the hall. This musical encounter gives Eunsol conviction that it might be the only hope to save the memorial hall from its impending closure.

The director follows the activities of those who are turning the zoo into a sanctuary for native wild animals. Establishing a sanctuary is the only way to save wild animals that cannot return to their natural habitats from being put down. The project was proposed by an employee of the Cheongju Zoo, and animal rights activists as well as the Chungnam Wild Animal Rescue Center and the Chonbuk Animal Medical Center joined to help.

After Jiwoo, who lives with his grandmother, suddenly disappears, police investigation begins, and statements follow from children who claim they were harmed by Jiwoo's problematic behavior. Then Gaeul, Jiwoo's only friend, makes a statement that Jiwoo is actually an alien who, unable to adapt to Earth, is returning to his own planet. Is Jiwoo really an alien from outer space who wants to return to his planet?

In a world where people start to stop one by one, Eunae wanders from one place to another with her dog, Mongi. While walking through a stopped street, she faces her childhood. Upon her arrival at ruins, she meets a man who had been waiting for her, without having stopped.

A talk-show host, usually known for spreading positive energy and inspiration, suddenly decides to vent and let out some bitter remarks as a wake-up call to his audience.

During the Japanese colonial period, 22 Korean female workers were forced to work in a spinning mill in Osaka across the sea to support their families. Despite facing discrimination and violence, their testimonies and life-affirming songs of victory have endured.

The perpetrator must be upset than me, my family, But when you forgive the perpetrator is a family.

A Stance Thriller: Exploring How Perspectives Dramatically Change Outcomes After a Minor Collision

In 1996, 26 spies from the North infiltrate into South Korea. 25 of them are rooted out, but one last spy escapes. An HID secret agent, called 'Ghost' is put to catch the last one alive. The spy and the Ghost, finally encounter and engage in suffocating gunfights, ironically, with the Ghost using an AK-47 rifle manufactured in a communist country, and the North Korean spy using an M16 made by capitalists. The shouting of the Ghost emptily echoes in the forest, after missing the spy as he disappears 'like a ghost'. And the spy, in his hideout, tries killing himself using the last bullet… 20 years later, the Ghost, having become homeless, wanders about like a real ‘ghost’ in the downtown area in Seoul, still chasing the illusion of the spy from the North...

A bullied teenage girl decides to visit a hotel suite to commit joint suicide with another person she met online. What happens next, however, is a startling twist that will forever change their lives.

3 months ago in Gangwon-do province, there were the most biggest forest fires in Korean history. 27 years old film student Seung-Hoon and his seniors and juniors party go to seaside town in Gangwon-do for taking documentary about climate crisis. But some problems arise between Seung Hoon and other crews, all left but cinematographer Jihoon stay behind. There's a homosexual tension between the two men, and over time, Seung-hoon's secret is slowly revealed. Memories of a hometown you'd rather forget, a first love, and a current love. This film is a message of some hope.

Jae Min, tired of preparing for a job, opens his eyes to new feelings through a one-night stand with Nam Yi, a high school classmate he meets by chance, but conflicts arise due to misunderstandings related to Nam Yi's job.

Magritte doubted Plato's allegory of the cave through his painting The Human Condition(1935). In the 18th century Joseon Dynasty, Shin Don Bok put together the anecdote collection Hak San Han Eon, which includes a story of two people willingly venturing deep into a cave rather than seeking light outside, eventually reaching a completely different world. In this film, the two people become women, and together, they load the film into the camera. In the utter darkness where only the sound of water is heard, images emerge. In that place where everything is inverse, the camera becomes a watering can, a mirror, and a teapot.

Rapidly advancing self-driving technology could put couriers out of work. In order to save her son's job, Mi-sook takes action.

This documentary tells the story of people who were at the scene of the 2014 Sewol Ferry disaster: journalists, bereaved families of the victims, and the survivors. Ten years after the disaster, what did it leave them? These are three omnibus documentaries with different perspectives.

Okhee is a lower-class diver in the city. One day, Eunyoung, the daughter of her late husband, comes to visit. What’s more, Kyeongsik, Okhee’s son, who is being chased by creditors, leaves his young son Junseo with them and disappears. Eunyoung wasn’t planning to stay long but misses the chance to leave due to Okhee's accident and the appearance of her step-nephew, Junseo. Eunyoung starts to live together with Okhee, but everything feels uncomfortable.

The follow up to LUCAS Documentary Part1 | Freeze

Jin-wook and Su-min are a long-term couple. They decide to live in a rural pension near the ocean for a month. Then one day, a young woman named Hye-na moves into the same pension. A month later, it's time to leave. Is Jin-wook and Su-min's relationship closer? Or will it break-just like the sound when the waves hit a rock? The ending credits of film go up. And...

MV for Lee Min-hwi 'Hometown to Come'.

Three years after winning the first season of music competition program "Sing again - Unknown Singer," Lee Seung-yoon has since released two full-length albums and an independent film about him, "Notes from the Unknown". "LEE SEUNG YOON CONCERT DOCKING : LIFTOFF" is a live performance film about the last day of the Seoul performance of Lee Seung-yoon's national tour concert DOCKING in 2023. Whether his fans are still reeling from his last concert or have yet to experience his live performances, this movie will give them a glimpse into his charm as a performer.

A girl draws a circle on the ground. Passers-by step into it, one by one. Soon the circle is full of people.

1997 revisits South Korea's tumultuous late 1990s through documents obtained from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by the civic organization The Center for Freedom of Information and Transparent Society.

Sang-hoon needs to complete 4000 skips to enter his home, but his pedometer breaks at 3999.

Here, the recent past (popular culture of the 80s and 90s, and the PC communication and internet culture of the late 90s to early 2000s) intertwines with the near future (metaverse and technocracy). In this world, security is only about the safety of the social system, not the safety of individuals.

A wife, unable to escape anxiety and despair, becomes pathologically obsessed, suspecting her husband will leave her. The husband, unable to endure his wife any longer, finds them both sinking deeper into an inescapable swamp.

Eunju, a teenage girl, wants to go to a high school baseball game where the boy she has a crush on will be playing.

Mother Hyo-jeong moved to a different room three times while living with her mother-in-law. Hyo-jeong, who has been a full-time housewife for 20 years, became her new head of household as a counselor. But her dad still wants the role of her submissive wife. Her mom wants her independence into her safe space. While she lives in each room, her father's intrusion continues. Although her mother keeps moving rooms, her father continues to disturb her mother's space. Will her mom really have her own space, can she have that fifth room?

Young-tae and Mi-joo are happy to move into a small but cozy monthly rental house. However, Young-tae’s business partner suddenly breaks the agreement to run a restaurant together.

Nuzabar from Kazakhstan, burdened with guilt over his young son's death, flees to Korea in an attempt to escape his past. However, he eventually contemplates ending his life. In a twist of fate, he saves a young boy in danger, prompting him to confront his past emotions and seek forgiveness.

Eden believes that her younger brother Hyun-ho is suffering from 'electromagnetic hypersensitivity syndrome' and flees to escape electromagnetic waves. However, even in the mountains, Hyun-ho's condition does not improve.

Yeong-ju lost a friend because of the 'Seoul Halloween crowd crush' in 2022. Unable to recover from the trauma, she took a leave of absence from college and volunteered to give career counselling to middle school students while undergoing psychiatric treatment. As time passed and both her treatment and volunteer work came to an end, the traumatic autumn came around again.

In 2022, Jean-Marie Straub passed away, reuniting with her creative partner and lover, Danièle Huillet, who had died in 2006. Inspired by their films, I embarked on a climb up a hill near my neighborhood. Though it's a trail I walk daily, it somehow echoes the spaces in their works. While this act isn’t enough to truly know them, it's better than giving up entirely.

Hanna, an adopted child suffering from a mental illness, awakens in Chuncheon, losing consciousness. She discovers an old missing person poster that looks just like her and begins to unravel the secrets of a case that happened 50 years ago. The events surrounding her past life's death resurface, and the performance of Jin-kyu, who desperately calls for his lost love, transcends the karma of life, making their reunion possible. However, this reunion leads to another dilemma for the two.

A young student lives in a mini-apartment in Incheon, in the North-West of South Korea. Wandering around the neighbourhood, she immerses herself in her family’s past, piecing together forgotten fragments of history. Using drawings and clay animation, visual artist Vatae Kimlee creates a flowing visual collage, a captivating animated graphic novel that brings back to life memories erased by the country’s accelerated transformation.

Vampires crave blood more than anything else. It’s the one thing they need to survive. Well, there’s always an exception. One in particular can’t seem to consume blood, so she must go through an extremely painful treatment to improve her condition and finally become a true vampire. Korean cinema is known for its seamless mix of horror and dark comedy, and HOW TO KILL A VAMPIRE does it brilliantly! – Steven Lee

In this emotionally charged piece, a man trapped in a hell he has created for himself tries to relieve his pain.

A short film by Uri Han.

Yoo Kyung-geun, who lost her daughter Ye-eun in the Sewol Ferry Disaster, sits down at the podcast production studio. It is to meet with the bereaved families of numerous social disasters before and after the Sewol Ferry Disaster. They are Hwang Myung-ae, the mother of Han Sang-im who died in the 2003 Daegu Subway Fire, Ko Seok, the father of Gahyun and Nahyun who died in the 1999 Sealand Youth Training Center Fire, and Bae Eunsim, the mother of Lee Hanyeol who died in 1987's June Struggle. The bereaved families talk about "the life after" and their daily lives, and Yoo Kyung-geun learns to live without Ye-eun.