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FORESTELLA THE WAVE IN CINEMA
Here is an actor, one who has been asked to dwell in the perilous gap between text and image. In the voids where traces of the past have been erased by an unknown error, she begins to assemble her own script.
Trials and Initiation
In-seon, still holding on to her late husband's ashes three years after his suicide, decides it's finally time to let him go. But when her daughter, Su-yeon, returns home and resists the idea, In-seon begins to question her decision. As tensions mount, Su-yeon tries to reclaim the ashes—only to accidentally shatter the urn. With no other choice, mother and daughter must confront their long-buried grief… and say their final goodbye on a bright, sunny day.
Beautiful Dreamer
Thirty-six years ago, Lee Soohyun met Kim In-sun at a Korean Christian Women’s Association retreat in Germany and gifted her flowers. Despite threats from her then-husband and the disapproval of Korean society, In-sun found love and chose to be with Soohyun. Now, the two of them—who came to work as nurses in a foreign country where they knew nothing of the language—are still there and already in their 70s. For 30 years, they have lived together in Berlin and shared in all the joys and sorrows of life. Soohyun and In-sun have stood in solidarity with other foreigners like themselves while also looking after one another. They are two people who overcame boundaries. This is their love story.
Life Unrehearsed
Cafe Diem
Wings Hidden Under the Pillow
Jung-ae is stranded on a deserted road after her car breaks down. Having missed an important meeting with a client, she anxiously paces around. Then, a mysterious young woman appears, offering help. Touched by the woman's bright kindness, Jung-ae gradually lowers her guard and begins to open up about her story...
No Place to Return
Sincerely Yours
Min-hyeong, a musician working in Mullae-dong, is preparing to move out after failing to renew his lease. One day, he meets Jee-an, a welder, and as they grow closer, he begins to write the final track of his album.
The Light of Mullae
After their parents' remarriage, the same-aged sisters I-seul and I-jin live in different cities following their mother's death. I-seul, escaping her abusive boyfriend, goes to visit I-jin in Jeonju, but the two struggle with unresolved feelings toward each other. When I-seul suspects that I-jin is hiding their family relationship from her friends, she lashes out in anger, while I-jin feels suffocated by having to act as both older sister and mother to I-seul.
Curry of the day
Burden
The music film for Lee Minhwi's song "The Station."
Station
Jichung's Diary
서부리 사나이
Following the body of Park Kyung-seok and the hands of Moon Jong-taek, the film documents Park's daily struggles on the subway and the public outcry over 'inconveniencing innocent people.' Holding his camera, Moon confronts a wall of indifference as they repeat the same fight in an unchanging world.
standby, action!
In a city shaken by climate change and disappearing habitats, a strange new stick insect appears: TUBULUS PLASTICUS, evolved to mimic plastic straws. What begins as a curious spectacle turns into an eerie presence, quietly disrupting everyday life.
TUBULUS PLASTICUS
Living in a group home, 17-year-old Park Seon dreams of becoming an actor. But she must leave and face life alone at 18. Caught between her reality and dream, Seon hears of a ‘wish-granting underpass.’
Into the Light
In the mountainous region of Gangwon-do on South Korea’s eastern coast, wildfires, both small and large, recur year after year. In the spring of 2023, a wildfire that broke out in Gyeongpo, Gangneung, reduced 551 homes to ashes in the span of a few hours. This film tells the story of a family who lost their home in that fire. After the fire, the family of three moves to a village where their great-aunt lives. In this strange place, their days are tangled with worry, emotional scars, and an uncertain future. The mother struggles with insomnia, while the father tries to adapt, learning to cook at great-aunt's restaurant. Their young son, who has just started elementary school, begins to make up a story in his mind - a little tale born of mixed emotions and lingering anxiety.
The lion doesn't cry
Su-a, a six-year-old girl, is trapped in a studio apartment with an iron cord wrapped around her waist. However, she does not cry due to a disorder caused by abuse. While Su-a is dying of hunger, her aunt Soon-im arrives in time to visit and rescue her. Through the account of a neighbor, Soon-im discovers that Su-a's mother has not returned for over 10 days. Soon-im decides to rescue her only niece from her mother.
A Child of Silent
La Vie en Rose
Over ten years ago, their mother passed away after giving birth to the youngest sibling. Not long after, their ailing father also died. Now, with an eviction notice in hand, the four siblings are left with only a letter from their father and a car registration under Chun-ja's name. Chun-ja takes back the car that their uncle had been using. After a family meeting, they agree with Jun-myung, the third sibling, who wishes to take a year off from school to travel. They set off on a camping journey together.
Norwegian Mackerel
What does it mean to care for a being that has nothing to do with you? How can we explain spending one’s youth in a rural mountain valley, enduring hardship to care for wild animals that, unlike pets, will never grow close to humans?
Where We Stay for a While
In the era of the zombie endemic, zombies must now flee to escape human persecution. Na-hee, a temporary public official working for a zombie extermination team, embarks on a long journey to smuggle Eun-bi, a talking zombie, to safety in Alaska.
Some Like It Cold
On April 16th, 2014, the Sewol Ferry sank in South Korea, taking with it the lives of 304 of its 476 passengers. South Korea's worst maritime disaster traumatized a nation while simultaneously sinking the country's emotional spirit. The film asks why the rescue of Korea's children and people was neglected on the fateful day the Sewol sank.
Reset
A Chinese boyfriend suddenly faces the risk of deportation from South Korea for an absurd reason. His girlfriend embarks on a desperate search to find a way to protect their peaceful life together.
My Boyfriend
Eun-ji and Mi-jung are sisters. One day, they hear that Mi-jung's groom-to-be, who disappeared after suddenly announcing their breakup, has become a monk. The sisters climb a mountain to find him.
The Mountain Between Us
The camera sets out on a journey to find the headless Buddha statues scattered across Namsan Mountain in Gyeongju. What has disappeared, who caused it to vanish, and how has it been recorded? People stroll along the river, the sea, and mountain paths, taking photographs, where images from the past and the desire for excavation overlap.
And the Moon Sets Over the Temple That Was
Bujeon Market
cobalt
Double projection with two 16mm projectors. The images begin with two parallel screens. They consist of fragments of light flashing like bursts in the darkness. As the process progresses, each projector moves simultaneously and overlaps. The sound actively utilises optical sound. In the latter part, Lee Minhwi's "The Light of Silence" is inserted.
Photosynthesis part 1
A world where ordinary people are called wolves and persecuted for being useless and dangerous beings. But in reality, they are just adorable cats living their everyday lives.
There Is a Wolf
The city hums with its usual noise and haste. Unable to keep pace with its restless speed, Se-yeon moves slowly, as if walking through a different time. Every day she brews her tea carefully, hangs her laundry, heads to work, and eats alone. She has a dream, yet never steps into it - only circles around it. Avoiding people's eyes, she goes to the darkened river after sunset and paints. It is the only moment she feels she is reaching toward her dream, the only moment she feels alive. There, in that night river, is someone else besides Se-yeon. By the same river, Jae-woo dreams as well - a dream of making a fortune by selling river sand. They share the same river, share meals, walk the same path, and spend a season together. At the end of summer, Se-yeon and Jae-woo finally come face to face with each other's fragile truths.
Stars and Sand
Mioka, a Korean-American adoptee, has attempted to find her birth family multiple times but failed. During her journey, she discovers ‘Banet,‘ a group of Korean women who help adoptees find and reunite with their birth families. Banet supports Mioka in finding her family based on her adoption documents, and as the journey goes on, they figure out that there is a chance that the documents were fabricated.
K-Number
Witnesses 2025 is an omnibus of two short documentaries. 1948, 사라진 병사들 traces the truth of the Yeosu–Suncheon Rebellion, which began on October 19, 1948, when soldiers of the 14th Regiment refused orders for the Jeju April 3rd suppression, declaring they “could not kill their own people.” 얼굴, 얼굴들 follows the life and legacy of a friend who dedicated himself to uncovering the truth behind state-sanctioned suspicious deaths.
Witnesses 2025
Fight for the Seat 815
Hye-rim is an actress who suffers from trauma after an underwater accident during filming. She moves to the remote city of Yang-ju, where she starts an isolated life. One day, Hye-rim stumbles upon the old ‘Sam-hee Apartment.' An adventure begins in her daily life as she becomes involved with the apartment.
Samhee: The Adventure of 3 Joys
NCT DREAM TOUR 'THE DREAM SHOW4 : DREAM THE FUTURE' is the fourth worldwide concert tour headlined by NCT DREAM, in support of their fifth studio album Go Back to the Future (2025). This tour also marks the last performance NCT DREAM would hold as a 7-member group, and the conclusion of Mark's contract with SM Entertainment and activities with NCT.
NCT DREAM TOUR 'THE DREAM SHOW 4: DREAM THE FUTURE'
Thirteen-year-old Su-yeon is left alone after the death of her grandmother, her only guardian. Facing the threat of being placed in foster care, she sets out to secure a new home by ingratiating herself with her best friend's family—and even online influencers.
Waterdrop
South Korea's super Idol girl group, Twice, 10th anniversary fan-meeting held at Korea University Hwajeong Tiger Dome, streamed live on Beyond Live on Oct 18, 2025.
Beyond Live - 2025 TWICE FANMEETING [10VE UNIVERSE]
Jimin and Hyunsang hold their poetry club meeting in the park. Whether driven by the poem's content or by their increasingly discordant feelings, the two start behaving strangely.
Poetry Syndrome
The film conducts an elusive search for the traces of Lee Kyung Soo, a Korean War orphan adopted by a U.S. Navy officer. Lee’s image circulated widely across newspapers, magazines, and photographs—serving specific purposes and cultural narratives. Over time, these representations fractured, faded, and reemerged, leaving silences in the archive and gaps in visibility. The cut-out fragments from the scattered information are pieced together to imagine the child’s unspoken point of view throughout his wandering life.
A Real Christmas
In a society where witches are hated, Yeongeun has been living in hiding from the outside world with her daughter Roo, who is actually a plant-like monster born from her mother’s creation. Sadly, she decides to undo her daughter’s curse, but Roo ultimately decides to fulfill her true destiny. They go on a personal and emotional journey in which they’ll find a new land, where Roo will take root as a tree.
Where Roots Go
Twenty years ago, at eighteen, Seonyoung suffered a severe spinal injury in a fall. Her family sold their home and shop in Incheon to cover medical bills, moving to her father's hometown of Cheongju. There, tragedy compounded: her father struggled with alcoholism, her mother's health failed from hard labor, and her brother developed a mental illness after a traumatic military incident. Now, Seonyoung studies for the civil service exam, hoping to pass and finally return to Incheon to reclaim the life and memories left behind.
Sometimes, Beauty Lies Along the Journey
Sweet Home
Korean Election Fraud, God's Will?
Kyung-min is an English tutor who is often pressured by his lover Seon-hee about getting married. He starts giving lessons to a new student Young-won, a piano tutor, and they decide to exchange tutoring like barter. Unlike Seon-hee, she seems to be an untied person when it comes to relationships, which strongly attracts Kyung-min. But as he falls for her, he faces unexpected but familiar situations.
LESSON
수상한 본부장
Sangcheol, who gave up his life for the independence of his country, The members of the Gyeongseong Touring troupe, who have to go on the stage with a Japanese flag, Yeonhwa that heals independent troops Sangcheol but can't afford to follow a grand cause... The ordinary people who were thrown in front of the rough wheels of the times each person makes their own choice by holding onto their already broken daily life. Can you not regret the fate that this choice forces.
Gyeongseong Touring Troupe
Sound Sleep
On Homecoming Day, Myungjoon discovers an old cassette tape with recordings of his past diary entries. Hoping to correct his mistakes, he revisits pivotal moments in his life, but his actions trigger uncontrollable consequences. Trapped in an endless time loop, reality distorts as he desperately tries to rewrite the past. His obsession drives him to horrifying extremes—murdering loved ones and risking his own life. As he battles forces beyond his control, he questions the blurred boundary between dreams and reality, echoing Zhuangzi’s The Butterfly Dream, and confronting the inescapable nature of karma.
The Other Timeline
East Shore Line
Everyone mentions her when asked who the 1st generation of jazz musicians is in Korea, adding that jazz wouldn't have been continued in Korea if not for her. It's Park Seong-yeon, the musician who ran Korea's first jazz club - Club Janus - and she provided it for other musicians to perform. Diva Janus follows the late Park's footsteps through her past and interviews by her peer musicians.
Diva Janus
Echo of the Past
Seoul, 1996. Wastewater from developed film reels is dumped into the sewers. From this toxic discharge, a monster awakens, carrying the memories of countless movies imprinted on the film reels. Burdened by a vanished past, the monster wanders the city.
Monstruo Obscura
Observes multiple lives through figures who blur the boundaries of identity such as a director, a spy, a traveler, and a woman who can see ghosts.
The Observer's Journal
Ah-reum, a 19-year-old who does not attend school, goes to school pretending to be a student wearing someone else's school uniform. The story takes place when she meets a schoolboy, Sung-woo, who cut class.
Blossom Graduation
Seolhee and Hwajeong make an impromptu trip to the East Sea while waiting to hear the results of their recent job interviews. The purpose of the trip is to make a wish while watching the sunrise, but nothing happens as they hope. The two argue during the trip and have an accidental meeting while going their separate ways.
A Wing and a Prayer
A 21-year chronicle exploring the strange life and the cosmic thinking about death and life of Kim Uchang, one of Korea's foremost thinkers, who leads a life in complete agreement with his philosophy. What meaning do things and a house have to the scholar who cannot throw away his parents' belongings and cannot leave the house he has lived in for 40 years? Can he ever complete his final book?
In the Sea of Strange Thoughts
Follows three people who believe they are 'Truman', each seeking salvation through different loves and relationships.