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Based on declassified US military documents and archival footage, as well as testimonies from those who participated in bombings and civilian victims, director Lee Mi-young thoroughly illuminates the reality of the US Air Force’s indiscriminate bombing that resulted in numerous civilian casualties during the three-year Korean War.

After his only brother falls into a coma and he is left alone with no one to turn to, Baek-ho takes a job at a gay host bar. The owner of the bar doesn't like Baek-ho because of his introverted demeanor and dark expression, but one day, a young man comes to visit and chooses Baek-ho as his first customer.

In 2000, in the era of inter-Korean reconciliation, 63 non-converted prisoners were repatriated to the North, and a 2nd repatriation movement was launched in 2001 but failed again and again in later years. As of 2022, the average age of the surviving secondary repatriation applicants is 91.

A Korean woman, who is also an aspiring musician, goes on a pilgrimage to the country. On a quiet seafront on Jeju island, she meets a French guy who came to see his girlfriend but failed to. They are two different people but can communicate in English. Their conversation enables them to face the most important memories in their lives.

Lim Jaechun, who worked as a factory worker for 30 years and was suddenly laid off, spent 10 years in a tent as a sit-in. Director Lee Soojung calls her ‘sister J’. 10 years into the fight for reinstatement, Jaechun now writes, plays guitar, and sings while living in a tent. She says her personality has changed after 7 years of being laid-off from “originally timid” to being very lively. Sister J deals with a struggle for reinstatement, but it is actually a film about a single person, as stated in the title. This documentary brings artistic vitality to the ‘4,464 days’ Sister J spends on the site, with lines and music driven from the forms of the play into the cinema.

Yomi and Hun pretend to be lovers and spend one night. Yomi gives Hoon her phone number and offers to pretend to be her fiancé, and she asks to go see someone else's house. Thus, the real couple lives in the house they visit, and Yomi and Hun become entangled in their conflict. When Yomi is faced with a series of situations different from what she wanted to see, she eventually runs out of the house.

This story is about two people who have been struggling for more than 40 years to remember Koreans forced into labor in the northern Akita region. Ha Jung-woong, a Korean-Japanese who succeeded as a businessman thanks to his outstanding abilities and the economic growth of Japan after the war, and Juroku Chatani, a Japanese historian who has built a culture village in the Akita region of northern Japan. Their efforts to unravel the mystery of the statue of Hime Kannon built on Lake Tazawa and to commemorate the Korean victims of forced labor are still ongoing.

In the future where virtual reality has become a thing of daily life, Soomin works as a counselor in her own virtual reality. One day, a strange man, Cheolwoon, comes to Soomin's virtual space. Cheolwoon asks Soomin to come to his space, where Soomin goes to find Cheolwoon's hidden dark secret. A look into our future, intertwining escapism and transhumanism.

The Lotte Giants is a huge part of Korean professional baseball's history. 30 years have passed since their last win in 1992. Now, they are tired of self-dissing mixed with resentment against the club and players. But, why can't they leave even though they know? Why won't the 'Talde effect' work? Why do they get excited when spring comes? Why are they so sure the win rate will be over 50%? Now here, nevertheless, with fans moving to Sajik Baseball Stadium, the 40-year history of the Giants unfolds centered on former and current Lotte Giants players.

Tae Gyeong and Shin Lee Young, two post-graduates, reunite for the first time in a year. When Lee Young suddenly kisses Tae Gyeong in a drunken frenzy, hidden secrets and buried feelings resurface once more, leaving the women with no choice but to face an unprecedented truth about themselves that changes everything they thought they knew.

A story of a man and a woman who are blind, to the Daegu-born idol Moon Hyuk, in different ways. The woman loves him as a fan, while the man hates him so much as a brother. They meet by chance with their intense emotions and heal their old wounds through each other.

One hot summer, Eun-hye, a jobless who’s just knitting at home, becomes popular at ‘Munho River Market’ as an artist who draws ‘not pretty face’ pictures. When customers ask her to draw them to look pretty, she replies “But you’re already pretty”. Eun-hye takes great care for a long time to express each people’s personality and says that everyone is born pretty from the beginning. And now the number of happy faces has already reached 2,000.

Sibong majors in FILM but he doesn’t know many movies. Unable to overcome the pressure of other students, Sibong raises his hand during class, pretending to know a movie he doesn’t know.

The work approaches the relation between digital objects and machines in the material dimension. Data is often embodied in advanced digital devices with glistening surface, yet the hardware of the machines becomes ‘junk’ as soon as its functionality fades and eventually gets thrown away. The work traces such material remnants in the processes of handling the electronic waste and recycling value chain, in which the mineral and metal that once belonged to electronic devices are re-absorbed into the reproduction cycle. Such processes of deterioration of digital objects are parallel to the history of resource extraction, and ultimately, geologic time.

After work, Ji-soo and colleagues invited each other to have a little "coffee". After calling to inform his wife that he was late today for the reason of entertaining a partner, the two guys invited each other to drink coffee. After drinking, it was time for the two guys to come to the main performance, ordering a rain girl for each guy. Of course, with a tight budget, the two did not dare to call any high-class sister, but only played popular goods. Ji-soo, while half awake and half drunk, ordered a red shirt girl with an extremely voluptuous body to serve her. But surprise yet? The person who came back was his mother-in-law.

In November 2020, the Senate and House of Representative elections took place along with the Presidential election in the United States. Five Korean Americans of vastly diverse backgrounds with competing political views ran for the House election. David Kim is the only underdog with limited resources vying to be the first Korean American representative from Koreatown in Los Angeles.

An omnibus film about the friendship of elderly protagonists.

A movie about two young men who are college friends solving problems with people around them during the coronavirus pandemic.

An international project that spans across Korea, China, and Japan, Lash challenges viewers to think fundamentally about the human existence and humanity. The three chapters titled “Messenger,” “Message,” and “Messiah” feature workers of a Chinese sex doll factory, a politician dreaming of innovating the Japanese political system with AI robots, and a middle-aged Japanese man living with a sex doll.

An 18-year-old boy named Haewon hates his father for being unfaithful to his mother. In the same apartment block, Ha-young becomes an orphan after her father passed away. One night, they decide to take revenge on the irresponsible adults.

In the midst of ordinary daily life, Bukhan Mountain starts growing and causes an earthquake. As the boundary between fantasy and reality falls apart little by little, someone takes note of the invisible world.

A night owl sculptor and an early riser delivery man are neighbors divided by a thin wall. Their conflict over noise levels escalates into a war, in which each ends up trashing his own apartment, leading to an unexpected end.

Korea National Opera celebrates the 60th anniversary of its establishment by performing KNO’s first ever performance in 1962, to look back on the past 60 years and contribute to the development of Korea’s cultural arts. Prince Hodong was very well-received during its premiere for its strong dramatic structure and folksy and comfortable melodies. It tells the story of Prince Hodong of Goguryeo and Princess Nakrang of an enemy country who falls in love with him. In this tragic story, Hodong strives to reclaim the land of Nakrang, while the princess’s devoted love leads her to destroy the magical drum, Jamyunggo. Prince Hodong reclaims the land because of her support. Her father, King Nakrang is so angry that he kills his daughter.

The tramp comes across the characters around the owner of the guitar as he picks up a mysterious guitar that only plays to him.

Following her father’s death, Ye Won hangs out with her friends, but her mind is elsewhere.

Chronicles of Joung Tae-choon, a celebrated folk singer-songwriter, who tremendously contributed to Korean folk history.

A young boy during the midst of Korea's development boom learns a mysterious man roaming around his neighborhood may be more than meets the eye.

Sungjae makes money by selling cigarettes to teenagers. One day he meets an unexpected buyer.

Jaegi, who has lived the life of a disabled person due to a traffic accident, is judged as Level 5 at the first grade screening. Jaegi strives to become a severely disabled person, but the situation is getting more difficult.

Seoul, 2042. A foreign man has a debt to pay, and is forced to participate in an underground fighting ring that uses the internationally banned fiber wave technology. With this tech, any man can control another man in the fighting arena. He now has the chance to pay off his debts if he wins the next fight. But will the underground let such a prized fighter escape?

Sangwoon lives in Gajeong-dong, an old neighborhood in Incheon. He works in Cheongna, a new city beyond the overpass. Sang-woon, who gets off work late every night, finds comfort every day by reading poems that someone has written on the walls of his neighborhood. One day, he discovers that the poem that used to change every day has not changed. (source: siff)

First chapter of Exquisite Corpse Trilogy project.

Centers around Wang-jung and Yuri as they seek success and love in the K-pop world. Amid dreams and setbacks, will they find happiness?

Wooyeol and Nara, who usually enjoy sex, drink alcohol and sleep at Nara's house. Kang-hyeon, a wealthy father, brings his girlfriend Ha-yeon into her house to have sex. Ha-yeon runs into her superiority at her house, and Ha-yeon, who has experience having sex with her superiority, is surprised and takes her superiority away. She tells Ha-yeon that she wants Woo-yeol to keep her secret that she met her, and Woo-yeol asks her to have sex instead of keeping her secret.

Oh Minwook’s Eternal Brightness, adapted from Jo Gapsang’s novel Eye of the Night, narrates the past and the present lives of the characters who have lived through the contemporary history of Korea, from the Korean War in the 1950s to the Busan-Masan Democratic Protests calling for the Park Chung-hee administration’s Yushin regime in October 1979.

Young-chan and Mi-sook decide to send their son to study abroad, and Mi-sook leaves together. The executioner Mi-yeong, who was Yeong-chan's former lover, tries to seduce Young-chan after her divorce, but Yeong-chan is not shaken. After some time, Yeong-chan is lost because of his wife, Mi-sook, who has an affair with her son's teacher abroad, and Mi-young comforts her wife, Yeong-chan, and crosses a line that should not be crossed...

When her daughter, Ga-yeon, gets a new boyfriend, Yeong-hee has a dream about the couple sleeping together.

〈Yangrim-dong Girl〉, which captures the life of director Oh Jae-hyung's co-director's mother (Lim Young-hee), is a combination of narration (documentary) and painting (anime).

Jong-soo, the son of a Korean-Vietnamese family, is still learning to speak Korean. His classmate Ji-hee, who has always loved writing poetry, helps him with his diary, Korean homework, and dictation. When Ji-Hee moves to Seoul, Jong-Soo wants to give her a poem as a parting gift, but it's not easy. Unsure, he goes to a stationery store to buy Ji-hee's favorite kraft paper, where he meets her and accidentally learns poetry from her.

At noon. It’s just gone past 12. Heejo is here.

"I am writing to confirm that I am alive" Yoon-soo feels anxious "Do I have to fill it out? Why not just leave it empty?" Eun-kyeong stays in anxiety "Sometimes I feel like a character in a novel" Chi-won confirms what is behind his anxiety "Does anxiety eat your soul?" Joo-hee embraces anxiety Beings living with their own share of anxiety, Yoon-soo, Eun-kyeong, Chi-won, Joo-hee live precariously in an entangled relationship. It's disturbing, but that's how it is.

On Song-yi’s way of getting water, she bumps her private area on the corner of the desk Dong-yeong was pushing. Feeling something she’s never felt before she goes on her journey of finding that desk again.

Illuminating, magnifying, cutting, freezing the endless night and infinite music woven through the story with light.

A couple went on a trip for their second anniversary.

Nana must obtain the written consent of her dad and her “moms” so that she and her younger siblings can change their names—which were originally given to them without much thought.

You must have heard a story of ‘Red Mask,’ who asks a person if she looks pretty and rips their mouth like hers. This film is an interesting reinterpretation of this old story set in the COVID pandemic era, swinging smoothly between horror and comedy.

Seung-Hoon comes down to Cheongju where his mother lives after his mother, Kim Han-Ok, suddenly collapsed from hypoglycemia one day, thinking that he does not know what will happen to his mother. Seung-Hoon is a director majoring in film and directing. I'm filming a documentary about Korea. But my father passed away, and my eldest brother passed away, so the only thing left in the family that can be said to be a big pillar is my mother. So now that I'm living with my mother, I'm also working on leaving her life as a peace story.

Tales of the lovesick serpent “Sangsabaem” is a Korean folklore about a protagonist who dies from the pain of unrequited love and turns into a snake to express their suppressed emotions to the object of affection.

The father, who has been battling a disease for ten years, and the mother, exhausted from caring for him, return home. It looks as though Sujin, who was recently fired and planning to go on a working holiday, would have to stay home. Occasionally she sees a zombie in her father.