Discoveries from South Korea World Cinema

Homeless Man-sik has a home. He arrived at home after begging all day. He shaved his head and took a shower at home. Getting in the bed, he heard sudden sound of woman's heels.

While searching for her grandmother who vanished without a trace from a Seoye studio, Jisu encounters a mysterious woman delivering ramyun.

In a Seoul studio, Eunjoo—a North Korean defector—prepares to record an interview about her escape. At the same time, 11-year-old Yesol travels with her family to Jeongseon, a quiet town in Gangwon Province. There, Yesol stumbles upon Eunjoo's memoir. Page by page, she comes to recognise the meaning of human rights and the power of solidarity, as two distant lives begin to rhyme.

After being split up, the photographer Hyunwoo can't overcome the pain recollecting the memories with Taegyu, the model. He tries to forget Taegyu, but it is not easy for him.

People struggle living lives because of money, but for soon-a, life was not tough to survive. It was because soon-a received sufficient pocket money from her father every moth. She felt guilty of having a financial support from family even as an adult. therefore, soon-a got a part time job to earn money by her own effort. She realized that life is not easy thing without any aid. Now soon-a starts to concern of "What could I do if my father died?".

A 20-something couple is having a date. They want to make love but they don’t have enough money or time. They look for a place where they can have sex.

The word “Manshin” refers to a shaman who are considered an intermediary between gods and humans. Kim Keum-hwa, Korea’s most famous shaman, is also a world-renowned Korean traditional dancer and a religious figure respected by the Vatican. The documentary tells the story of her fascinating life journey from a girl forced to take a job she never asked for to becoming a living national treasure.

Jinwoo, a star BJ on AfreecaTV and a top-ranked online English instructor for the College Scholastic Ability Test, gets into a series accident while live-streaming while drunk. Barely regaining consciousness, he finds himself dying from excessive blood loss. Jinwoo begins to recall his own shameful past, including videos of his mistress on his phone and adult toys in his trunk. To erase them, he begin to drag his injured body.

Recording a 24-hour period throughout every country in the world, we explore a greater diversity of perspectives than ever seen before on screen. We follow characters and events that evolve throughout the day, interspersed with expansive global montages that explore the progression of life from birth, to death, to birth again. In the end, despite unprecedented challenges and tragedies throughout the world, we are reminded that every day we are alive there is hope and a choice to see a better future together. Founded in 2008, it set out to explore our planet's identity and challenges in an attempt to answer the question: Who are we?

A 1979 Korean movie directed by Park Chul-soo about a teacher who falls in love with a boxer who attacked her.

An animated story from Sticky Monster Lab that simultaneously tells two stories - that of the father and that of the son.

The Olympic Gala of Champions in PyeongChang 2018

Eden and Hyunho, brother and sister, have now lived in hiding in the mountains for three years to avoid all EMFs: electromagnetic frequencies. They reside deep in South Korea's last forest standing- the last EMF safe area. The two move ‘homes’ every day; they dig a burrow in the ground, set up an EMF shielding tent, and cover it with soil and branches to disguise it. The older sister Eden believes that her younger brother Hyunho suffers from EMF sensitivity. However, Hyunho himself believes otherwise: that his condition has nothing to do with it. Hyunho misses the city life. Hyunho decides to go off course and goes down to the city, to a highway service station. He experiences an excruciating headache and faints. Eden carries Hyunho back to the forest, sets up a tent in a safe place, lies his younger brother down, then sneaks into a nearby village to steal medicine from a pharmacy. On her way back to the woods, Eden is confronted by tall standing, never-ending, peculiar looking lights.

Eunbyeol and Honei, two high school friends with contrasting backgrounds, get caught up in Korea's teenage sex trade.

“When I’m sad, I go into the water. Then your tears turn into nothing.” Do-wan is happy when he is in the water. He doesn’t speak much, and has no friends and no mom. But when he is swimming, he feels peaceful. As far as he is in the water, he feels so comfortable as if he were in mom’s arms. Because Do-wan likes water and is talented with swimming, he keeps working hard to become a swimming athlete. His father, who hates water dreadly, objects to his son’s dream to become a swimming athelte. Due to the repeated conflict with his father, Do-wan drifts apart from his father gradually.

On the day of SAT, which continued to take place even in the era of zombies, high school girls drive themselves to the place of examination.

BAMBOO WIFE-Korean traditional bedding to avoid the heat. One hot summer night, a sinking novelist picks up a dumped bamboo wife. But from this point, his sleepless night lasts forever.

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Kang Dong-Min decides to revenge himself on the society, losing his lover Ok and his mother because of poverty. Whiling robbing the bank with a friend, Dong-Min kills his friend due to the friction between them and runs away. Robbing a car with Han Ye-Ji, Dong-Min goes to his hometown, Sam-Cheok. Ye-Ji shows the resistant attitude toward him but she takes pity on him after all. Seeing that Ok is a barmaid and his mother is another man's wife, Dong-Min experiences betrayal. Surrounded by the police, he jumps down from the second floor, shouting a fantastic yellow car in spite of Ye-Ji's persuasion.

Two brothers, Hyuk and Bin, live in a small coal mining village. Hyuk, the younger of the two, works hard as a coal miner to make ends meet. On the other hand, Bin becomes a slave to gambling and leads a wretched life. Bin soon becomes a casualty of a greedy gangster named Gang-ho who wants to reshape the mine for profit-making facilities. Hyuk enters the world of underground fight ring to avenge the wrongful death of his brother.

Ho Bang is a young man out of work, living in his friend's house, trying to pay off debt. One day, he goes down to the country side to interview for a job. Unable to find his way he stumbles into a town where everyone has special powers. Not only are the people strange, but it's a town that one cannot leave, and time stands still at day light.

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.

Ji-su, who was returning home late at night, witnesses a hit-and-run traffic accident. There are a young woman and of Jisoo's age and a child in the street.

A woman gets in a taxi to go somewhere. The driver rambles on and on, and the woman doesn't pay much attention. Until what the driver says gets weirder and weirder.

After one of the raids into the ancient kingdom of Koryo by Mongolian bandits, Yu-seong finds himself alive, but orphaned. He sets off to Mongolia to rescue is fiance who was kidnapped in the raid by the leader of the bandits

Since losing her goggles in swimming class as a child, Ji-young has been afraid of water. Even now as an adult, Ji-young, who cannot open her eyes underwater, is anxious about her final swimming test and future career. She finds out that Soo-kyung, a precocious high school student who she tutored, has goggles and tries to borrow them, but Soo-kyung is not home on the day she promised to lend them. Soo-kyung, who ran away from home, dreams of an emergency on the rooftop in the rain that night, and Ji-young is still wandering in the water in her dream, unable to open her eyes.

This year is the 30th anniversary of the Gwangju Democratization Movement. Though the country commemorates the event as the official historical records, it does not include any 'real' accounts of the people who experienced it firsthand. The students who were part of the movement; the female vendors who made rice balls for the students; the female high school students cooked at the government building; now, past their middle age, they live as ordinary citizens in Gwangju city. How is the event remembered by these people?

Pong Ddol dreams of forming a band, but money is a problem, and there's little chance they'll find any. Pong Ddol offers Chul-wook the job of band manager if he helps with financing.

Min-a survived an unprovoked assault and still struggles with trauma years later. When the attacker, Do-soo is released, Min-a's fears grow, but no one believes her. After friends go missing and her brother is injured, Min-a confronts Do-soo in an abandoned warehouse, ready for a final showdown.

In the Korean Classic Horror Movie, A Public Cemetery of Wolha 1967, the tombstone of the kisaeng (Korean geisha) Wol-ha, who dies under a false accusation, is found! Set in the 1930s when Korea was under Japanese rule, a story was told about a girl, Wolhyang. She goes from a student to a kisaeng (Korean geisha) to a wife of a bourgeois man and is finally killed under a false accusation. This is a well-known story in Korea from the Korean classic horror movie, A Public Cemetery of Wolha. The movie, Wol-ha 2017, starts with a setting, where the tombstone of Wol-ha is found by an international collector and the whole process of finding the tomb of Kisaeng Wolhyang is recorded by video. The footages are fully of the mysterious and the grotesque...!

Join the three royal musketeers, Athos, Porthos and Aramis on a thrilling adventure in this high quality animated feature for your kids and family. The three musketeers must confront D'Artagnan, who tries to steal their spotlight as heroes.

Soyeong, a woman with a disability, harbors a nightly dream: performing on stage. In her imagination, she dances effortlessly in a "normal" body, yet remains wary of praise. Her dance teacher, Heejeong, guides her through movements, encouraging her to chase her aspirations. Their shared performance is a cherished moment, but the following day brings a return to Soyeong's ordinary life. As she begins documenting her experiences, we embark on a journey alongside her, through changing seasons and flowing waters, towards an unknown destination.

Two fishermen living in a fishing village on the east coast had a son, Yeon-soo, and a daughter, Jung-soon, and they were in love with each other.

X's unconditional love for fascinating writer Y starts during her high school days. X, who left her hometown after her mother's remarriage begins to work in a dress shop. Her affections for Y lead her to give herself to him. On the year baby Y' turns 5, she reunites with Y on his birthday but he does not remember her. When baby Y' dies from illness, X sends Y an account of her 12 year love and ends her life.

After failing to enter a prestigious university for the second time to the dismay of her overbearing mother, Sung Joo enlists in the army dreaming of a whole new world.

Eight aspiring students take on the quest of joining the school's annual Multiverse Short-Film Festival. In the process of doing so, Minho was casted as the lead role and built both expected and unexpected friendships along the way.

Dong-kyu has a truly curious job: collecting proof to denounce the free distribution of plastic bags. In a take-away restaurant he is caught off-guard by Sinae, an employee who runs after him and hits him on the head. Dong-kyu comes to and pretends he's amnesic. Si-nae takes him to her home, marking the beginning of a strange company of five.

A UFO arrives on Earth and re-animates corpses in a cemetery. One of the zombies, a little girl who died during a kidnap attempt, orders the zombies to destroy her murderers before they can harm another child. This must be accomplished before it is time for her to leave in the spacecraft.

withal our bodies we are is a work combining text and the moving image of body movements. In the text, the speaker feels awkward and nervous at a club and meets ’Jiwon‘, visiting different places and sharing communal movements and affect. Based on the senses emerging from the text - nervousness, self-consciousness, relaxedness, awkwardness, and etc. - Sunghyun who performed for this piece choreographed movements with me. In this work, Sunghyun presents texts that are printed in reverse on the mirror and performs movements that are sometimes related, not related, or maybe extended from the text. By putting text and movements together, we think about how our bodies move and what it is about to move together with others.

Yuner, Liu Ren, and Zhou Xian are college girlfriends. They went to the holiday house to take pictures and swim together during the holidays. However, the three women soon became bored. Yuner came up with the idea of seducing men and happened to encounter a handsome sports car The passing Shi Yu and the senior asked the three women for directions, and Yuner handed over the phone number to the two men, and this extraordinary experience began …

A being enters a room, takes out wires, installs them all over the house, and then exits. A being enters, collects the wires installed all over the house, and then exits. The act filmed at regular speed and the act played back in reverse form a decalcomania, creating an uncanny dissonance. A network of power strips, public power outlets, and extension cords connected to the two outlets that are the only power sources in the room undergoes repeated installation and removal.

One day, many trees fall. Some of them die; some of them still breathe. At night, one tree stump dreams. It grows again against gravity. However, it is not strong enough to reach the sky. Its dream moves to the moon. And pieces of moonlight on the moon free themselves and fly over and over…

Dali, Ju-young, and Yeon-woo are high school classmates. Quite late at night, the three of them are talking about another classmate called Sun-hee while waiting for a bus. They eventually find out that each of them had a strange and weird memory related to Sun-hee...

When a contract with a foreign company goes wrong, Lee Poong loses all his assets and attempts suicide with his family in despair and despair, but only he survives. Suffering from guilt, he lives off of a canteen owner, Gyeong-ja, whom he meets by chance.

A simple fable about a teacher's quest for justice. The teacher's neighbor not only ogles his wife, but builds an outdoor toilet right beside the teacher's house. When he is refused any legal recourse, the teacher decides to get revenge by building a latrine for the entire village outside his neighbor's house.

A divorcee reevaluates her life after a chance meeting with another woman with a similar history.

They visit Jeju Island in anticipation of a pleasant fantasy and get healing, but all the places have sad stories. In order to meet the true beauty of Jeju Island, where souls who have disappeared without knowing the reason remain, we must also know and remember the endless sadness.

A little boy and his uncle are playing loudly in a cold bath on Sunday morning.

A story about 4 gay men who try to lead a normal life in Korea, the conservative and harsh country for LGBT in Asia. In the middle of making a queer film Jun-moon, a director, loses his self-confidence due to social scrutiny regarding his sexual orientation. Byung-gwon, a gay rights activist, has been participating in movements to establish equal rights for homosexual laborers. Young-soo, a chef who moved from the countryside 15 years ago, lived a lonely life but he finds happiness after joining a gay choir. Yol, who works for a major company, dreams of the day him and his partner, can have a legal wedding with overcoming the prejudice against people living with HIV/AIDS.