Films

One of the most prominent unsolved puzzles in Korean history are the dramatic events of a murder mystery that slowly unfolded on a sunny afternoon…

Winner, Jury Grand Prize, 2016 So-young, a 65-year-old woman is the so called ‘Bacchus lady’, one of the most reputed prostitutes for old men at…

Winner, Best Animated Feature Film, 2016 At Seoul Station after sunset, an old homeless man is seen eating another as an undead cannibal epidemic takes…

Winner, Best Youth Feature Film, 2016 Ten-year-old Sun is an outcast at school, but during the summer vacation she meets Jia who is new to…

Winner, Jury Grand Prize, 2015 Against a harsh wintery backdrop in a remote mountain village, Alive tells the story of one man’s day to day…

In the middle of winter, Sung-geun, a retiring school professor’s family travel to be with him for his retirement ceremony. After the ceremony, Sung-geun makes…

Winner, Best Performance by an Actor, 2015

The Road Called Life is based on three famous Korean short stories: “When the Buckwheat Flowers Bloom” is about an ageing market vendor, Heo who…

To give teenager Yeongjae more opportunities in life than his dysfunctional parents can offer, he spends his youth in a church sponsored Catholic foster home…

Serving as a window into the labour movement in contemporary Korea, Sanda: Surviving chronicles the daily lives of a group of middle-aged workers in Korea…

Everything on the White Planet is black and white. Everyone on the planet has white skin, except for Choi Min-je, who is the only person…

Il-ho, the satellite ‘KITSAT-1′, is launched into space. She observes Earth over a long time and becomes curious about the human heart. Kyung-chun, an aspiring…

Mr. OH who is in his mid-fifties loses his wife after a 4 year battle with cancer and proceeds with the funeral arrangements. His daughter’s…

Winner, Best Children’s Feature Film, 2013 Ji-gu is a 16-year-old juvenile offender under probation who lives with his only known relative, his bed-ridden grandfather. One…

With their municipality under threat from a menace of suitably biblical portent – it is scheduled to be flooded to make way for the construction…

Winner, Best Performance by an Actor, 2013 The confusing and conspiratorial 15th ruler of Korea’s Joseon Dynasty King Gwang-hae (Lee Byung-hun) orders his secretary of…

Winner, Best Performance by an Actor and High Commendation – Best Feature Film, 2012 1982 Busan. Ik-hyun, corrupt customs officer on the verge of being fired,…

High Commendation, Best Documentary Feature Film, 2012 Young-Chan comes from the Planet of Snail where deaf and blind people live slow and quiet lives. When…

Winner, Jury Grand Prize, 2012 Kang-do is a heartless man who has no living family members and whose job is to threaten debtors to repay…

Winner, Best Animated Feature Film, 2011 On a chicken farm among hundreds of chickens is clever Leafie, an amazing hen who dreams of a life…

In Shahin Parhami’s contemplative portrait AMIN, the legacy of the 105-year-old Qashqai classical vocalist Ustad Kiyani is excavated through the poetic journey of a much…

The man who crossed the yellow sea, chased to the end. Gu-nam is a cab driver in Yanji City who leads a pitiful life. His…

High Commendation, Best Screenplay, 2011 Still mystified by his son’s death, the father (Jo Sung-ha) of high school student Ki-tae (Lee Je-hoon) tries to track…

Winner, Best Performance by and Actress, 2010 Winner, Achievement in Directing, 2010 The profound story of an elderly woman, Mija, who lives with her teenage…

Winner, APSA NETPAC Development Prize, 2010 Eun-mo is back in her hometown, Paju, after spending three years soul searching in India. The reality she returns…

Winner, Best Children’s Feature Film, 2009 Seoul, 1975. A brand new pair of shoes shines on the feet of nine-year-old Jinhee. Thrilled with the unexpected…

Winner, Best Performance By An Actress, 2009 An unnamed widow lives alone with her only son, selling medicinal herbs in a small town in southern…

Winner, APSA NETPAC Development Prize, 2009 A group of people are gathered at a boy’s funeral. Joon-Ki (Yoo Ha-Bok), a closeted transvestite and physical therapist;…

A bitter loan shark strikes a friendship with a troubled schoolgirl as he faces his own troubled past with his abusive father.

This is an omnibus of animation films coordinated and produced by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea as a cultural approach to highlighting that…

63 Years On focuses on Korean women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II. During the war, an estimated 200,000…

Winner, Achievement in Cinematography, 2008 The story of two outlaws and a bounty hunter in 1940s Manchuria and their rivalry to possess a treasure map…

In the summer of 2007, Kim Seong-nam, a painter in his forties, travels to Paris, France to escape arrest for smoking marijuana, leaving his wife…

A cash-strapped pimp and former police detective draws upon the skills of his old job to track down his missing stable of prostitutes.

Winner, Best Feature Film and Best Performance by an Actress, 2007 When her husband passes away in an automobile accident, Shin-ae and her son Jun relocate…

OH Dong-gu believes himself to be female. Although overweight and on the short side, he dreams of becoming perfect some day, and devotes himself to…

An unlikely duo, Ok-boon, aka the ‘Goblin Granny’ who has filed over 8000 complaints to the town office, and Min-jae, a Level 9 civil servant…

In the rapidly expanding Seoul of 1994, the Seongsu Bridge has collapsed and as the city is rapidly industrialising. A lonely and quiet 14-year-old Eun-hee…

Winner: Best Feature Film | 13th Asia Pacific Screen Awards, 2020 Ki-taek’s family of four is close, living in a basement apartment scrounging for unprotected…

Moong-Chi has lived a happy life with his owners ever since he was brought home as a puppy. However, when he is taken on what…

Winner – Jury Grand Prize, 2018 Jongsu is a quiet and unassuming deliveryman who is out on a job when he runs into Haemi, a…

During their summer vacation, siblings Okju and Dongju  find their small family moving in with their grandpa after their father has gone broke. While young…

With Beauty water, you can be a beauty within 20 minutes. However, as the saying goes, easy come, easy go…Yaeji, who is neglected by the…

A woman director, frustrated but struggling to survive in the film industry, meets 60’s filmmakers and gets courage to continue her filmmaking.

Director Amanda Kim tells the story of Nam June Paik’s meteoric rise in the New York art scene and his Nostradamus-like visions of a future…

Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are pulled apart when Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited…

The story of a Korean single mother and her adolescent son living as immigrants in Canada during the 1990s.

Having survived foot-and-mouth disease only on willpower, Pig H swears that he must become human in order not to die as trash. He is ready…

XiXi is a captivating and free-spirited performer living in Europe. Drawn to the artist’s unique style and Chinese roots, Taiwanese director Fan Wu sparks dialogue…

Amid the wintry steppes, Saina, a Mongolian horseman turned cultural performer, tends his ranch during the day and performs horseback tricks for audiences at night.…