Discoveries from South Korea World Cinema

Two interpol agents go undercover in Moscow to discover who has stolen four nuclear missiles and a legendary Chinese artifact of great mystical power.

F begins to follow two young anarchists who sporty usurp abandoned commercial storefronts and apartments. These three strangers will become closer after subtle acts of trespassing and sporadic forays into civil disobedience. The longing for exile and the fantasy that a promising future is somewhere else contaminates F. The city is immersed in an eternal holding pattern, becoming into a singular artifact, as melancholy as uncanny.

People exist as landscape to each other for much of their time. This coldness sometimes inspires you. The scenery is still the same, but the impression has changed slowly.

A serial play centered on the real scene of the sea screened on a theater stage that is a dramatization of Duma's detective novel. Na Woon-gyu darkened and directed, and Na Woon-gyu appeared as a new stage member of the troupe.

One night in Seoul, Jin meets Tae who works in an LP bar. Both become trapped in a rapidly changing world and weighed down by work. But they still have fond memories of each other. Perhaps, memories are all they have left of each other.

Instead of repaying a debt, Jungsik is asked to kill Jaeyoung, a woman who seems to be in a similar situation to him. Jeongsik, who has never killed a person before, sees an opportunity to kill Jaeyoung, but it's not easy to follow through.

A man wears a camilla sent to him by his former lover upon his release from prison. He later learns that she has been killed and that her husband is a North Korean spy. Taking the code-name Camilla Flower, he begins a vendetta against the espionage ring.

Love Spoiler is a Part of the 2021 O'PEN/Drama Stage series. The analog love story of two wounded men and women in Dystopia where genetic testing shows the expiration date of love.

In the cartoon room, Joo Yeon, who got spoiler, starts the mystery of finding the criminal!

After air pollution wipes out all life on Earth, bioengineer Dae-seung lives in a bunker with Sina, whom he subjects to brutal experiments to create a human who can survive outside. One day, a survivor named Taeo appears, claiming that somewhere beyond the bunker, a village of survivors still exists.

Short film part of NMIXX’s 3rd EP “Fe3O4: STICK OUT” roll out

After finishing a grueling shoot, Jun-sang heads to Mongolia in search of inner peace and tranquility. The journey to the desert is not easy, and Jun-sang struggles to figure out where he is going and which direction is the right one on the many roads he encounters. Upon hearing the sudden death of someone he met the day before he came to Mongolia, Jun-sang falls into deep thoughts about life and death. Did Jun-sang find peace when he reached the summit of the windy sand dunes? Boom Boom Boom, Did I find peace on the bumpy road?

Newlyweds in their second year of marriage face the ordeal of their husband's erectile dysfunction. But the moment she sees her wife's college junior, her husband's body heats up! The couple realizes that the secret help of a college junior is the only way to solve their problems

Married couple in their 5th year of marriage, about to get divorced, and their conflict over the 'cat rights' of a cat that is like a child to them.

304 people drowned as the car ferry sank. Four fathers recall their memories of their children; high school students who were on their field trip. Professors, lawyers, journalists, an activist, a diver, and a politician explain why the system ultimately allowed the tragedy to occur. What is stopping the next tragedy? The world has turned upside down.

The old Korean folktale, 'Heungbu and Nolbu' is brought alive on the screen in this film that shows the lead character as a marionette. Nolbu is the elder brother and he is slimy and greedy. In his greed, he throws his little brother, Heungbu, out of home to stake claim on all the money and belongings their father left for them. Heungbu is an idealist but pained by the events that have taken place. He helps Swallow by curing his broken leg and as a return favour, Swallow gives him a gourd seed. He plant the seeds and after sometime, gold, silver and gems start coming out of the plant, giving Heungbu everything he deserves. It does not go down well with Nolbu.

A week left before the Asteroid Sadness hit the earth, Jae-gui holds funeral for his dead wife Min-hee. Their daughter Seong-a refuses to take part, saying it’s no use doing a funeral before the apocalypse. However, Jae-gui roams around to find a mortician, funeral clothes and fruits for the funeral. The daughter tries to stop Jae-gui and some men raids the hall. Against all odds, Jae-gui carries on with the funeral and the hidden truth is revealed at the last moment. Min-hee and Jae-gui faces each other without secrets. With a smile in his face, Jae-gui thinks about feelings.

Round and Around is an audio-visual project planned and produced to observe modern Korean history on multiple levels. By associating video and exhibition based on archived references, Round and Around intends to overview Korean society in the 1980s based on various non-linear axes of time and space. Jang Minseung's brilliant directing and Jeong Jaeil's choir music created with the excerpts from psalms lead the audience to experience 'Gwangju in May 1980.'

Best friends Ji-hye and Mi-yeong, fall in love with Jeong Woo-jin. Mi-yeong seduces him to end the love triangle and the two soon marry. Ji-hye leaves but returns 5 years later with a child in tow whom she claims is Woo-jin's.

A 28-year-old girl, In-hi Hwang, experiences paralysis in her upper body to which she does not know the cause, and her family continues to get into accidents. She saw this as some kind of curse and visits Hae-kyung Lee, the female shaman. In-hi finds out that she is destined to be a shaman and falls into dilemma. Korean Shamans are the intermediary that link living humans to the world of the spirits and the world beyond, between reality and a non-realistic world. They have sometimes played a role as an advisor of life, sometimes as cursed messengers of weird gods. They are a group of people who are usually despised by others, but they have been around for the past 5000 years, carrying the burden of the gift that god has bestowed upon them.

A couple is kidnapped by a serial killer on their first anniversary. The kidnapper forces the couple to play a twisted game of rock paper scissors. Hyunsoo encounters a lady who looks very similar to his favorite adult streamer while delivering food to her. He gradually begins to believe that the lady is indeed the streamer and tries to contact her. Sumi needs to buy a luxury bag for her boyfriend’s birthday. But the bag is too expensive for her to purchase. So, she makes a unique trade with a wizard. Ji-Eun, who lives with her ill boyfriend, goes out every night but her daily life collapses when she brings a guy she meets at a jazz bar to her house.

A dragon named Mir was swept away by a typhoon and washed down to a river. Their first meeting was the worst, but Mir grows fond of a homeless fortune teller who helps him overcome his fear of water. One peaceful day, the fortune teller saves Mir from a flooded river but gets swept away. To repay the kindness, Mir musters the courage to overcome his fear.

Na Woon-gyu plays the role of Nicolai Park, a veteran of the Russian army, who has returned to Korea from European battlefields. Broke, hungry, and unable to find employment, he is taken in as a boarder by Kim Chang-ho. Chang-ho's friend, Cha-duk becomes romantically involved with Hae-ok, who had sold herself to support her parents. Cha-duk's wife, Yeong-ja becomes involved with Nicolai, who rejects her proposal to run away with him. The romantic complications spiral until Yeong-ja kills Cha-duk. The film ends with Nicolai departing for destinations unknown while the other boarders bid him farewell.

Too shy to confess, Muyeong joins Hanbit’s play. But when Hanbit barely notices him, Muyeong wonders if love is even possible.

Kim, Du-han earns the wrath of the Yakuza boss, Konoe, when he saves the life of Korean freedom fighter Hwang Ryong. Konoe hopes to hire the assassin Shirasoni to kill his enemies but Shirsoni, opposing Japan's colonial stance in Korea, is driven into Kim Du-han's camp instead and they, together with Hwang Ryong, unite to drive the Yakuza from Seoul.

Yoon-jung, in her fifties, still meets the man she loved thirty years ago in her dreams, now a blurred presence between life and death. Ido, in his twenties, wanders in search of meaning, while Roa remains beside him like a distant vision. As their stories unfold, the lives of Yoon-jung and Ido gradually overlap, unsettling the boundary between reality and dream.

Eunha, who lives in Berlin, is preparing to return to Korea after seven years abroad. As she packs her 23kg suitcase, she decides what to leave behind and what to take with her.

A truck driver wakes up in limbo between life and death after a bizarre accident, where everyone is granted one last wish before the absolute. The man, whose only wish is to return to this world, is accompanied by a young soul whose only desire is to have fun at an amusement park for a day, and he is told to consider another wish while he takes care of the child. The man then becomes the child's guardian.

An office worker Mr.Kim is forced to sign up for early retirement, only to be plagued by horrifying visions of his silent family's contemptuous gaze.

Goh Su-mi wants to overcome the pain. He makes a queer movie about his own story, but people are still cynical. Nevertheless, he always wants to be dignified in front of the world and people.

Aspiring writer Ki-hwan has a small secret about his left nipple, but he doesn’t have the courage to tell his girlfriend Eui-jung. One day while over at Eui-jung’s place, he ends up finding out about her secret.

A murder case is closed when it is labeled a suicide. Reporter Jongho, however, is convinced he knows the murderer’s identity: Yeojin, the blind daughter of the victim. Obsessed with this incident, Jongho’s life has been spiraling out of control. Jongho finally decides to visit Yeojin’s home to uncover the truth—a truth that seems to lie beyond reason.

About the pastor's daughter, who reconciled the irreconcilable fighters - the inhabitants of two neighboring villages.

The protagonist runs into a mysterious being at a bookstore. There seems to be a problem at her house.

Hyeon-rae becomes engaged to Yun-su who must complete his overseas study before marrying her. Shortly after, Hyeon-rae is raped but she keeps it a secret from everyone. However, when she becomes pregnant, her liberal parents are very excited. Thinking that the baby is Yun-su's they send him letters of congratulations.

A melodramatic film about a fisherman who disappeared at sea. After many years, he returns and finds out that his wife has a different family. The fisherman does not disturb his beloved wife and secretly leaves his native place.

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.

After taking the College Entrance Exam, Geun-ho, a 20 year old gay man, goes to the gay bar with his friends Yong-woo and Sang-soo. He meets Jun at there by chance and recklessly follows him to Seoul to spend the night at his place.

A battalion of North Korean soldiers sieze Eoluk Isalnd on the east coast of Korea. The villagers organize a resistance and set a date to strike back at the occupying force which is terrorizing the population.

One day, an elderly fisherman living on the coast of South Korea discovers a boy swept ashore by a storm. Upon learning that the boy is from North Korea, having crossed the DMZ, the two face a difficult choice.

Author Juyoung recalls the moment when he saw the dragon's tooth – the traces of war. His memory deepens, and he visits Nuri to find traces of his dead student. People beyond time, all those memories of love allow us to live despite the traces of frozen wounds.

Chang-su, Byeong-gi and Yeong-bae are pickpockets and work together. Chang-su's role in the team is to lure the chasers out. Chang-su is displeased with the payment he receives because what he does is tougher than what the other two do.

Yong-geun, an HIV-Positive, goes back to his hometown for celebrating his father's birthday. Taking pills has become his everyday life since it helps him maintain an ordinary life. As Yong and a man he meets at a spontaneous gathering head to a motel, the guy finds out a box of pills in Yong-geun's bag.