Discoveries from South Korea World Cinema

A documentary that deeply focuses and visits the trauma of Korea's modern history for 70 years through the life of a father whose family was indifferent.

Korean birth dreams, known as tae-mong, traditionally prophesy the sex of an unborn child through gender-biased symbolism. Males are strong, often fierce animals, females delicate and small. Interpreting the work of artist Lee Jung-seob, filmmaker Chaerin Im confronts a patriarchal culture through a spirited tin-foil lithographic imagining of a powerful she-horse: a strong, fiercely independent warrior encompassing true feminine power and ability.

‘Seire’ is a sacred period after birth of a baby, during which the family should refrain from going outside and breaking certain taboos in order to protect the baby from evil spirits. Ki-hyeok, the father of a newborn, ignores his wife’s dissuasion and visits a funeral. After that, the baby falls ill for no reason and mysterious events start to take place.

The small county of Seongju staged protests against the THAAD. Young mothers led protests from concerns about their kids and the exposure to radiation. Gradually, they learn the system is faulty.

Yeong-sik is a personal tax accountant. Two years into his marriage, he feels his wife is not like before. He coincidentally sees his wife meeting with another man so he puts a tail on her only to come back empty. Frustrated, Yeong-sik tails her himself but there's nothing out of the ordinary. A while later, So-yeon's body is found in an isolated area and the police call in Yeong-sik and Oh Min-soo, the man So-yeon met for investigation. Oh Min-soo denies he did anything and that he even had an affair with So-yeon. Yeong-sik calls the police and asks how his investigation went but the police say he just denied it and that they'll call them when the case is closed. But what he wants to know how he testified about his wife, who the criminal is and what the relationship between So-yeon and Oh Min-soo is...

In the 1990s, Incheon experienced a period of economic, cultural, and educational growth centered on the area known as Dongincheon. This area became a hub for heavy metal and rock bands, music listening rooms, and concert halls. Over time, these facilities moved to the basements of Gwangyo-dong, where numerous Korean heavy metal and rock bands gathered and flourished.

A man who left his wife to study for a government exam happens to see a drowning woman in a mountain and rescues her. To thank him she takes him home deep in the mountain. He ends up staying with her for years, putting his study behind. But she learns that the woman he saved from the drowning sea was a vampire. Meanwhile his wife finds where her husband is with the Buddha's revelation, kills the vampire and brings him back safely to their home.

While she sensuously reads erotica to delight her devoted viewers, a cam girl also lends comfort and counsel on matters of intimacy. Yet, for all the solace she provides, her own life remains shadowed by loneliness and longing.

Hong Sangsoo's short film made for the 59th edition of the New York Film Festival.

Diesel, a tram driver wandering in the junkyard, dreams of reflecting on his childhood memories.

A high school student must struggle to secure a job because of her undesirable appearance. Discusses discrimination against women.

The blinkers of the night. Messengers and mediators. The light is accompanied by illusions.

Humanity builds ocean farms and ocean ranches all over the place, and Robot Taekwon V is tasked with protecting them. Meanwhile, the commander, Hoon, Cheol, and Dr. Norman's daughter Yuri begin to devise countermeasures inside the sea base to find the famous oceanographer Dr. Norman who has gone missing.

Hearing-impaired Mo-Re wants to meet Hiro in person, a Japanese guy she met on the Internet.

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It's been 15 years since the youngest, Mirae, went missing. Woori's family lives without losing hope that they can find Mirae even in difficult circumstances. One day, Woori's family received a tip about Mirae. On her way there, Woori learns of Mirae's death insurance.

A woman is kidnapped by her ex-boyfriend and kept prisoner in his basement.

Gyeongju goes in for reshoots to save her film.

A theater actor, Sung Hyun, has worked for the same play for the last 10 years without dream nor passion. His old friend Gwang Sik who left the theater to pursue a film actor’s career offers Sung Hyun a chance to play a main character’s role in a feature film. It is the film directed by Jin Gun who brought him fame as a movie star. When Sung Hyun decides to take a challenge for the role with a hope to get his life out of misery, his long-time, deadly rival Tae Seok comes back to his life.

One day, Brad visits Marie and me to buy Marijuana. While they are very close to a deal, Brad goes to the toilet, finds detergent there. He thinks it is cocaine and snorts some without hesitation. Marie and I find Brad and start to think about how they can overcome this situation.

Bongsik, a man left destitute after a betrayal, drifts into a remote mountain region and encounters a seductive wandering woman. Their bond forms amid hardship as they attempt scams and survival. When tragedy strikes, they must choose between illusion and a chance at happiness.

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Gyu-ri struggles with the prejudice and misunderstanding that pretty girls are worth their looks. On the other hand, Jeong-seon is always treated as androgynous because of her easy-going and impressive appearance. Although they are both for different reasons, they are equally hurt by people's stereotypes about their appearance.

Edhi Alice: REVERSE begins from the perspective of Edhi, who is about to undergo gender confirmation surgery, and transitions into the journey of another protagonist, Alice, as she comes to terms with her body. The narrative of transition expands beyond a personal life story to encompass relationships, bodily experiences, and the sense of space, becoming a cinematic transformation.

In an underground laboratory, a brain experiment is underway. In an abandoned coal mining area, casino creditors are being murdered. Those who inherit credit are now waiting to enter the casino.

"An erotic film about two men and two women who gather in one house to perform hardcore actions."

Rejected by everyone, a woman follows a mysterious finger into a surreal realm, where a tender yet unsettling touch slowly begins to twist her reality.

After passing the qualification exam and graduating high school early, Eunseo works part time in a convenience store while also preparing for the college entrance exam at a study room. Then one day former classmate Jiwon turns up, and her arrival stirs Eunseo’s heart as the walls she had built up slowly begin to break down.

Simon, a painter, regains the use of his hands thanks to therapy administered by Ren. Later, when Simon is kidnapped by communists and forced to paint a portrait of Stalin, Ren again helps him by assisting in his escape. Simon's wife, however, is less than pleased at their growing friendship and becomes determined to keep them apart.

Su-min who finally passed the university dormitory and Han-byul who failed. Hanbyul's father's abuse of power changes the situation between the two. Su-min from low-income families who have nowhere to go and Han-byul, who doesn't want to live in dormitories, will apply for the Hawaii Exchange Student Program and compete for the last one.

The Grand Canal project was one of the key pledges of the former President Lee. He first said that he was carrying out a project to save the four rivers but it was a lie. He eventually proceeded the project which was a hotbed of all kinds of irregularities. After ten years, now the river is dying. Some people collaborated to the past regime, and some resisted it. On whom will we stand?

Yoon Hye-ri is abducted by human traffickers while meeting her husband, and Oh In-ae is also kidnapped in Itaewon and her innocence is violated. The two people, who are sold to the provinces, try to escape but fail, and the husband gives up his job and looks for a wife. Then, he meets Oh In-ae and finally rescues his wife with the united power of prostitutes, an alienated group, and vows to live while stroking the deep wounds that a sick society has given to his wife.

A couple lived in the mountains of Dume who were grilling charcoal. Although it was a poor life, Hyun-bo (Choi Woon-bong) was happy whenever he saw his wife (Hyun Soon-young). Her wife had a small dream to try on a pair of white rubber shoes. Her husband buys her rubber shoes by selling charcoal to the marketplace to please her wife. At that time, the forest supervisor (Jeon Taek-i) sees her beautiful Hyun Soon-young and tries to rape her. Hyeon-bo, who witnessed the scene, kills the forest supervisor with an axe. Looking at her husband's back as she was being dragged away by the police, Soon-young's long-awaited white rubber shoes were in her hands.

Si-eun, a new kindergarten teacher, believes that between six-year Seo-ra and a boy her age, some kind of bad education is starting up.

There is a group of dreamers who make amateur movies. They wish to become the best group of movie makers and continuously wait for the chance to quench their thirst of creation. One day, the team leader Ricks shows up with a script for an erotic film. Sun-mi, a wannabe actress and Hae-il who does the chores, worry about the erotic film but decide to go along with Ricks’ decision. They cast Cha-rin and Tae-san as the lead for their film and begin making. However, as they are inexperienced, they make a lot of mistakes along the way. Will they make it? The path they are going down is a tough one...

The story of a man and a woman who fell in love without knowing that they were half-brother and sister.

GOT7 Bambam unveils his first solo project with a medley film that highlights his new songs in a cinematographic experience.

A man travelling to Seoul to find his lover becomes a phony detective and pickpocket and goes on some wacky adventures.

The Christians of North Gando lose their country and leave their hometown, but gain the Gospel. The cross they hold in their hands is the symbol of daring for independence and a royal summon of the generation they have to endure. Historian Sim Yo Han retraces the footsteps of the late Father Moon Dong Hwan and finds meanings of the anti-Japanese independence movement hidden in various parts of North Gando.

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.

Japanese photojournalist Kuwabara Shisei boards a flight to Korea. Since his first visit in 1964 as a 27-year-old, Shisei has spent six decades documenting the turbulence of Korea's modern history: Cheonggyecheon, military camp towns, the Vietnam War deployment, and democracy movements. Now elderly, he returns, believing this might be his final journey. He carries a mission: to revisit the places and people that defined his life’s work. The film follows the photographer’s footsteps back into the heart of these historical sites.

In the winter of 2022, Lim Young-woong's encore concert 'IM HERO' heated up the atmosphere at Gocheok Sky Dome. To replicate the touching experience of the epic finale, IM HERO THE FINAL will come to cinemas on ScreenX in 2023 to meet the audience. "It feels like I have become the protagonist of The Truman Show." Even though he says he feels like he's on The Truman Show, in his 'real life' Lim Young-woong gives his best to his fandom ‘Hero Generation’ at every moment. His candid interviews and exclusive backstage stories from the national tour will be seen for the first time only on the film.

Gideuk and Susie take the road new home on Susie's release from Youth detention center. Apart from Gideuk who is fully hopeful, Susie is rather disturbed by her dad, Gideuk turning up in three years of time during her detention. Gideuk tries to talk to Susie hardly against the akwardness, however, they do not get along with each other somehow.

On the day when the Red Amy's gunfire is near the suburbs of Saigon, Ren parts from her husband, a colonel of Air Force and comes back to Korea. With a lot of difficulties, she makes efforts to find a new life but this family of five, who lost their fatherland, is unstable. At last, Ren dies of disease and the rest 4 sisters and brothers are scattered. This films presents the sorrows of people who lose their fatherland and wander without nationality forever.

In 2012, reeling from the pain of a broken heart, I met Frank, "one of the best psychics in New York." Frank is a celebrity psychic specializing in love, but he has avoided reading himself. As I begin to read him with my camera and my camera and I become his medium, our relationship develops.

In the peaceful Light City, Gong-chan and friends find unidentified merchants selling mini dinosaurs in front of the school. They are the villains who they thought were gone, Piggyback-dan! Using a time cube that can travel through time, the dinosaurs of the dinosaur age are brought to you by making mini-dinosaurs, and then they make them huge and attack the earth!

This is a short film which Kim Soo Hyun took part in when he was student in 2008.

A bus breaks down in the North Korean countryside. The two drivers must put their differences aside and overcome a series of setbacks to get their bus back up and running and cargo delivered on time.