Discoveries from South Korea World Cinema

Hae-jin, a chef who suddenly broke up through Kakao, left for Skopelos, Greece, the same island he promised to come with for the summer vacation. Hae-jin opened a Korean restaurant called Farewell Restaurant. For couples' last farewell before their breakups, they play music and comfort them. And then one day, Eleni, a Greek girl came… and he falls in love again.

An evil alien warlord from Andromeda comes to conquer the Earth. The aliens bring with them the space monster Bulgasari. Earth's only hope is the goofball hero Young-gu.

A sexy compilation of the best gay cinema from Asia.

Ha-yeon feels burdened by her older sister So-min, who thinks only of herself day and night. Then one day, her brother Ha-yeon asks her own boyfriend, Kang-ho, a favor. The next day, Ha-yeon summons So-min's boyfriend Dae-heon, and her boyfriend Kang-ho visits So-min's house...

The owners of a flower shoe shop and a butcher shop are close neighbors. They tell their children of the beauty of flower shoes and make a living making flower shoes. But their livelihood is threatened by the supply of rubber shoes and leather shoes. The flower shoe maker Han sends his daughter Su-ya off to work as a live-in servant and refuses to give up his flower shoe production.

Juwon, who played baseball during his school days, unexpectedly reunites with Hyeyun, his first love from long ago. She asks for his help with a baseball course exam, wanting to learn how to throw a ball far. But when Hyeyun suddenly proposes a bet, Juwon's feelings become complicated...

A romantic-comedy drama following the life of Mi Oh. One day, inside her head, the "sexy" left brain, L, and the "romantic" right brain, R, suddenly appear. "Are you two, my brain?"

The older brother, who has become an unintentionally beggar due to financial real-name, is begging in Apgujeong-dong, and rescues a female college student who is kidnapped by a trafficker, but she sees her brother-in-law and runs away. There is no quiet day for the moaning of the moaning from the bar employee's room, the parents of the official who fights the fictitious day with Mr. Kwon, a construction worker. One day, he meets Yun-ju, who has recovered the bag that was stolen in front of Lee Dae-dae. From then on, Yoon-ju will give you a coin in the can of the old man every day.

The daughter of the boarding house owner and the boarder fall in love with each other. The more their parents oppose, the deeper their love grows. As the opposition from both families grows stronger, they leave the house in search of happiness.

One day, high school freshman Minzy finds a photo of herself changing clothes in the school locker room. Class leader Hyejin, who is not close to minzy, points out that the new teacher is the suspect to her. Minzy and Hyejin collect evidences to prove that the teacher takes pictures of high school girls secretly. When Minzy and Hyejin report the teacher's behavior to another teacher, Minzy realizes something unexpected.

When beauty becomes an obsession. To save her lover, Thanh accepts a job at a remote beauty clinic. However, the living nightmare of macabre rituals, wandering ghosts, and a terrifying secret lays behind the clinic. Drawn into the "Đi Thiếp" ritual, Thanh is forced to make a choice: to remain in the underworld by her lover’s side, or fight to escape the clutches of the dark forces.

Jong-min is raising a dead friend's child, leaving his own son to a nanny who lives far away. Jong-min even spent all his family money for his success, but his adopted son treats him like someone he doesn't want to know.

Na-rin could not easily accept the breakup with her long-time lover Eun-chan after being informed of the sudden breakup, so she wants to have a one-month grace period for Eun-chan's feelings to return. "Love always ends out of the blue, and parting is always difficult." But as Na-rin jumps into the album production project for "History of Love," she's in a position to think about "breakup" more than anyone else. Can Na-rin find the purpose of the breakup that she has postponed?

Bo-Young's spirit can't go to heaven because she died as an unmarried girl. Her nanny who died before her feels sorry for Bo-Young and tries to arrange a soul marriage to Jeong junior who sends private supplies in private for his jailed father due to false charge to ascend Bo-Young to heaven. Meanwhile Jeong junior can not control the chief of village who false charged on Jeong senior and deprived his properties, and even he requests for hidden fortune. Thus Bo-Young and her nanny makes Jeong junior pass the civil service examination and beat the greedy and wicked chief of village to save innocent Jeong senior. Finally nanny and Bo-Young who loves Jeong junior ascend to heaven.

3 and a half hour making of documentary on Oldboy, covering nearly every scene

Lettuce seeds from an elderly neighbor take root in a city planter, growing across generations. This sight evokes memories: the neighbor's yard, her cat, the sound of her footsteps, and her hands, which, like a village craftsperson, cared for all surrounding life. A physical pain that began back then brings a new awareness of the body's inner entanglements and the invisible ripples left by the world’s countless grandmothers.

A journey to escape dopamine addiction turns into a disastrous camping trip.

Min-seo, a welfare recipient, borrows the identity of Seo-yeon, who is preparing for employment, in order to work and escape her difficult reality. However, due to Min-seo's greed, their secret is in danger of being exposed.

The sclera is a sign that humans are social animals. We are born to empathize, but not all of that empathy converges into perfect empathy.

Late at night, Woo-hyuk working on writing poems is visited by his ex-girlfriend, Nari. He tries to mellow her out only to find that they exchange misunderstandable words with each other. Recalling their travel to the island "JeBu", they finally find something in common to share. Now Nari asks him to travel to somewhere with her.

After her mother disappears silently, her father begins to cling to her sister. The younger brother, who knows nothing, meets a whale wandering around the house the night his father shut his sister in.

Hyein, who has been working as a secretary at 'Yoo Seung Precision', a small business, and was fired due to contract expiration, visits 'Yoo Seung Precision', her former workplace, to get a career certificate ahead of an upcoming interview at a large company. However, the real purpose of her visit is to get back the 67,600 won, which the manager Jin Sang-i of the same team has not paid back for running errands for coffee and sandwiches. When she finally arrives at her office, she asks Hye-in Lee to return her money, but she only gets 50,000 won. The only thing she approached the frustrated Hye-in was the (but awkward) Deputy Oh, who was the only female employee on the same team.

A young gay man faces arrest for burning his military-service draft notice.

On the second anniversary, Juno and Minjae make a trip. However, due to Juno’s mistake, they stay in the guest-house instead of the hotel.

Duk-man, a train conductor, sounds the train's horn each time he passes the hospital where his critically ill daughter is confined to let her know that he is thinking of her. However, when an accident leaves him unable to perform that simple act of comfort, his daughter's condition worsens

A young maid (played by actress Ye-bong Moon) fell in love with a boy from a noble family. Naturally, his parents oppose such a union.

Suicidal Variations shows a woman in a state of total despair after she kills a man. His decapitated head follows her and she decides to escape by committing suicide.

Sergeant Kim Seonyeob, nearing the end of his military service, quietly volunteers for night duty at the 1-1 guard post to dodge a grooming inspection. He's paired with Private Park Jihoon, a fresh-faced recruit. Their uneventful shift takes a sharp turn when the keen-eyed officer Park Jang-hyun makes an unexpected visit. As Kim Seonyeob's expression grows increasingly rigid, the secrets he's been hiding slowly rise to the surface…

Jun-woo lives with his brother and his wife. After fighting with his girlfriend, he has a drink with his sister-in-law, local, and consults. Due to his brother's frequent business trips, the lonely brother-in-law seduces Jun-woo to have sex with him.

Yu-chol is an unknown writer. People don’t like his works because they are not public-oriented. His parents died in an airplane crash. Despite his lack of success as a writer, he is financially secure from money obtained from an insurance company. However, he is lonely. He secretly lusts after the woman next door, who has a husband and children. Misunderstanding the woman’s kindness towards him as mutual love, the psychotic man decides to “rescue” her from her husband.

The brother-sister duo will be releasing the second half of their adolescence series through a musical short film.

A long walk home sets the scene for young romance, a trip to the beach becomes an opportunity for quiet reflection and self-acceptance, a naïve mother uncovers the secret life of her daughter, and a sullen teenager sees a new side to her mother. Re-live the journey of young love through six coming-of-age stories exploring chance encounters and hidden longings.

A story about the loss and hope of twenty-something movie lovers who take a rather unusual path. Those in their twenties can go anywhere like a bead. but they lack flexibility on ascension. The twenty-something friends in get a grasp on life and loss and grow through movies, building up the concept of the world.

Dunchon Jugong Apts. at the edge of the metropolis, Seoul. It has been over 10 years since discussions of rebuilding these old apartment complexes began. The inhabitants tell us about their soon-to-be-demolished houses and apartments. Some of them have spent long spans of time here and some of them short. Some people are now raising daughters in the house they lived in since their childhood, some families came from other places and struggled to adjust. Each add their different forms of love to this space in their own way. As the long-postponed reconstruction nears reality, the day-to-day scenery of the apartment complexes and households is quietly coming to a close.

After injuring her arm at work, Miju fights for industrial accident compensation. Yet she also endures sleepless nights, haunted by screams from her neighbors that only she can hear due to her hypersensitive hearing.

College students Yang-su and Do-seop start a bottle-selling business with the help of their wealthy friend Shin-ja to support their struggling parents, but after falling into a love triangle and being scammed, Do-seop dies tragically, leaving Yang-su and Shin-ja to mourn and vow to rebuild their futures.

Jiho likes his soon-to-be stepfather who is marrying his mother. Jiho wants to ask his stepfather for the first time to attend an academy. However, his mother turns her back on Jiho and asks him to ask his biological father, who has contacted them after a long time, instead of his stepfather.

An eastern and Feminine reinterpretation of the 7days of creation through tattoo, a primeval art itself.

Digital images are reduced to their most elementary form. Editing via methods of subtraction, division, fraction, and multiplication. All shot accidentally on iPhone.

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.

Wonyong and Yeonsil are in love with each other. The gangster Gyeong-seon also has a crush on Yeon-sil, but one day, a fight breaks out between Won-yong and Gyeong-seon. When Won-yong is in danger, Yeon-sil blocks his body and gets hit by a knife. She walks down the snowy hill, weeping as she embraces the body of Yeon-sil.

On the last night of his grandmother’s funeral, a young boy named Kang falls into a pit dug as a burial site. There, he encounters a giant serpent.

Throughout the history of cinema, we always see the countdown leader and hear the beep sound just before the start of a film. In this 16mm multi-projection performance, we hear sound and emotional residues from narrative cinema such as laughters, clapping, and cheering. The projectors become the protagonists in this performance, facing the audience.

No one is welcomed in the world of a little girl and a man until a stranger rings the doorbell. As astonishing things happen right in the face, the girl freaks out.

Muyeon who tried to make the alter ego finds out that she is the alter ego.

Our family lives in Eunma Apartment in Gangnam, Seoul Korea. My father, whose business had got tough, had borrowed money using the house with security. Monthly interests has become a bit too much for him, but he never thinks about selling the house, expecting that the price of the house might go up. I don't quite understand him. But as time goes by I get to know our family's economic situation, and as I can fee his anxiety about the price of the house I am also being uneasy. Could he ever sell Eunma Apartment?

Beautiful Miss Jin tells the story of Soo Dong, a guard who monitors the pedestrian crossing at an isolated train station where passengers are few and time passes slowly. Soo Dong’s monotonous and uneventful life perks up when he meets three unusual passengers who inject some excitement into his sluggish existence.

A woman, who barely escaped from the Collapse of Sung-soo Bridge 3 years ago, remembers her high school friends who died in the tragic accident.