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An aging poet summons his estranged sons to the hotel he is staying at because he feels his death is near; meanwhile, he encounters two women staying at the hotel.

Areum sits in a small café, typing on her laptop. Around her, customers enact various dramas from their lives. Is she writing what she hears or is she hearing what's been written?

Jihyun is 29 years old and dreams of escaping his hometown of Chuncheon and finding a job in Seoul. On the train ride back home after an interview in the metropolis, he meets a suspicious middle-aged couple, and two stories unfold in Chuncheon.

Shot in black-and-white, this story told partly in flashbacks with excellent acting focuses on a cleaning woman and a teacher. She displays self-destructive behaviour as a result of a terrible tragedy. He is unhappy, has suppressed feelings and incessantly phones the council about all kinds of trifles. Where she seeks extremes, including excessive sex and lies, he is introverted. When these two damaged souls meet at work, a bond results and they go traveling together. But their inability to communicate breaks the vulnerable relationship and this again has tragic consequences.

On a winter day, when a tiger escapes from the zoo, a man is kicked out of his girlfriend's house. Having no place to go, he wanders from here to there while working as a substitute driver and meets his old girlfriend.

In a tranquil countryside hospital, radiologic technician Yeon-woo suffers from a mental disorder, the result of a childhood trauma in which he witnessed his younger brother die in a car accident. Won-hee, the hospital’s newest nurse, shows an interest in Yeon-woo, but he doesn’t appreciate her advances-he doesn’t even get along with hospital colleagues he’s known for years. Through a few chance encounters, they gradually grow closer and he opens up his heart to her. However, Won-hee has a secret that she hasn’t told Yeon-woo, and it appears that their love will never be.

My parents were real estate developers and dealers in the 1980s. They achieved the ‘middle class dream’ thanks to the development boom. However, the Asian financial crisis swept everything away.

For the final birthday party of the eldest son, a family gathers in the house to have a plan with a bus..... Mother asks each of them to stay in his room for 10 minutes. Each person reveals personal wounds and secrets.

A small time actor is given the lead role in a play dealing with homosexuality. Though he has always believed himself to be open minded, his little brother’s secret proves otherwise, and he realizes that he has been fooling himself the entire time.

There are four people who want to become an actor. Their names are Hun, Eun, Jun, and Kyung. After watching the play [QUARTET]. They decide to participate in an acting workshop. They are trained by Mirae, the renowned actor of the [QUARTET]. Through the workshop sessions, Mirae is able to look into the inner lives of the four youths.

Woozoo visits Osaka to finish his business as his boss Dae-jung has gone missing in a ship accident. On the last day, Woozoo chases someone looking exactly like Dae-jung. He ends up losing him, but the guitar sound draws him to a small bar, Pier 34. Its owner, Snow, somehow reminds him of Dae-jung and listening to his music brings back memories. After passing out right there, Woozoo misses his flight back to Korea and then quits his job on a whim. He soon meets Haruna who learns guitar from Snow. And he decides to stay at Pier 34 till he finds Dae-jung.

Sixteen year-old girl Jeong-ae receives a letter from her mother, who left home long ago. Jeong-ae is living with her father in the redevelopment area of Seoul. He was diagnosed with an end-stage cancer and is waiting for his death while giving up treatment. Jeongae is on her way to find her long lost mother, thinking that it is her only hope left.

Every weekend, the gay male choir G-Voice rehearses in Seoul. The choir, being a kind of antidote to homophobic Korean society, makes the everyday lives of gay men its theme in an intelligent and humorous way. For their tenth anniversary, the members are planning to give their first big concert with ambitious arrangements, creative choreographies and many new pieces. Besides preparing for their big day, G-Voice are also politically active, singing for equality and against discrimination.

Min-kyung, who is preparing for civil service examinations while listening to a thief lecture. her struggling urban survival season.

A young woman in her 20s, Chae Meehee, visits middle-aged Cho Sungsook and insists that they were once childhood best friends. Though Cho Sungsook has never seen Chae Meehee before, they become closer at Meehee’s insistence. Their pasts cross paths as though they were traveling through time.

Under the pretense of research for her scenario, Ga-yeong interviews a man she’s been wanting to get to know. She probes him for intimate details including his sexual fantasies. He answers in all sincerity and she slowly reveals her desire for him.

Eugene, a film school graduate, came to Poland to meet her old friends. Dongchul, who also studied film, came to Ukraine to meet his old friends also. They travel separately through Europe, visiting their own cities, and waiting for their own objects to arrive a few days later. Sometimes they imagine the movie they want to make.

Is it acceptable for a forty-something woman to be in a relationship with 17-year-old boy? The idea of love between two people with such an age gap and the social exclusion that it can bring is the subject of Pascha. Gaeul is a 40-year-old screenwriter who lives with 17-year-old Joseph and their cats. The families of the two lovers cannot comprehend the relationship. Gaeul's family are especially baffled by every aspect of her life; raising a cat and living off of vegetables, let alone having a 17-year-old lover! Gaeul's family see her as the family's dirty little secret. More and more obstacles from society are placed between the lovers and their happy ever after; poverty, death, opposition against vegetarianism and the couple's pregnancy. Can a love like this survive no matter the odds in today's society?

is director YI Seung-jun’s latest feature who charmed the world’s documentary fans with the love story of a deaf blind poet and his soul mate in . The director switches the focus to a mother whose daughter was born with hearing and visual impairment. Without having seen a ray of light or heard any sound for the last 19 years, Ye-ji’s world seems inexplicable and looks as if she is floating in space like an astronaut. Still, the mother cannot give up on Ye-ji, since she encountered some magical moments of connection with her daughter. The film invites us to a mother and daughter’s journey into finding words of their own.

I, a lesbian filmmaker, encounter people yelling at me to disappear from this world. It is a time of hatred in South Korea. LGBTQ people are the easy targets for hatred. In searching for what makes a marginalized life livable, I embark upon a journey. I encounter a double life of Lee Muk, a 70-year-old Korean “Mr. Pants” and precarious lives of a Japanese lesbian couple, Ten and Non, after 3/11. As an ever-growing number of citizens are becoming the targets of 'witch-hunting' in Korea, true faces of the haters slowly begin to unfold.