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Comfort 2022
KIM Soonak is a survivor of sex slavery by the Japanese military. The war may have ended, but her life was still at a war. She lived in the prostitute quarters to survive, did sex business in the US military camp town, and peddled goods from the US military. She raised two kids on her own as she worked as a maid. We’ll listen to her story in her absence. The film reconstructs the life story of the deceased KIM Soonak with interviews with activists, archive videos, animation, and read-aloud testimony.

Gwangju Video: The Missing 2020 star_border 5.5
There are people whose lives have been shaken by the 'Gwangju Video'. On May of 1980, the course of their lives changed in front of a huge wave of truth in Gwangju. The people who made and spread the 'Gwangju Video' are also the people who had their bodies on the waves. The hidden stories of these people, the 40th anniversary of the Gwangju Uprising, and the pursuit to trace the missing 4 hours of mass shooting will be revealed for the first time.

To Kill Alice 2019
Eunmi, a woman who underwent intense anti-communist education while she grew up in South Korea, lives a normal life in America. However, after going on a trip to North Korea with her husband, her life begins to change. During an open forum event in South Korea, where she was invited to speak, she suffers the unimaginable, and the more she tries to escape from the situation, the worse and worse it gets.

Granny Poetry Club 2019 star_border 9
The grannies from Chilgok memorized the multiplication table in Japanese and lived their entire lives illiterate in Korean. This was because in 1937, the Japanese Governor-General of Korea banned the usage and education of the Korean language in all schools. These grannies from Chilgok had given everything for their children's education despite the backbreaking burden and workload. Then one day a Korean school opened in their village and sparked a fire in their hearts. As they learned the Korean alphabet, they became literary ladies who see poetry in everything in the world. "Poems here. Poems there. Poems are all over the place."

Courtesy to the Nation 2018
A man spoke Bach while everyone else was busy singing activist songs. Korea as he lived it from 1991 to 2017. Now is place where past and future meet. And his experiences are also ours, are also our memories.

Land of Sorrow 2018 star_border 8

The First Lap 2017 star_border 5.9
Between reproaches over past problems that were never resolved and the uncertainty of a future that is relentlessly coming closer, a young couple takes a trip that will leave them at the beginning of a new life.

Mis-President 2017 star_border 4.5
My father led a coup in 1961. Two years later, I became the president's daughter.

Blue Butterfly Effect 2017
The small county of Seongju staged protests against the THAAD. Young mothers led protests from concerns about their kids and the exposure to radiation. Gradually, they learn the system is faulty.

Recording 2017
After being diagnosed with stomach cancer, Yeon-hee decides to record everything about her life before she dies. She wants to show how she met her computer repairman boyfriend, where she went with him, how he proposed to her, and all that happens to her in the hospital. Her friend, an aspiring film director, helps with the film as their cinematographer. The completed work follows a mockumentary format, recording Yeon-hee’s final journey with her friend’s help.

Seven Years-Journalism without Journalist 2017 star_border 8
A total of 17 journalists have been fired since 2008, the beginning of LEE Myung-bak’s presidential term. They fought against the companies that they worked for succumbing to power and are now frustrated at reality where censorship of the press by authority has now become a norm. Can they continue their activities as journalists?

Beaten Black And Blue 2016 star_border 8
Coincidence brings Gyohwan, a ´keyboard warrior´ who has left home and is moving from gosiwon to gosiwon, and Jeongsu, a ´patriotic senior citizen´ who has fought all his life against the left wing, together who become close like a grandfather and grandson. A black comedy about the two who each prepare for their last big event which leads to disaster.

Our Love Story 2016 star_border 5.9
A fine arts student meets an attractive bartender, and the two women begin an intimate relationship.

Woojoo's Christmas 2016 star_border 5
The movie tells a story of whimsical and beautiful experiences that a woman goes through after she has changed an antique store into a café for her business.

Samnye 2016 star_border 5
Seung-woo, a creatively blocked screenwriter, travels to the small town of Samnye to escape the distractions of big city life. There he meets Hee-in, a young woman who works in a bakery, who is also looking to escape from her surroundings.

Snow Paths 2016 star_border 6.5
Jeong-Woo is sent to a sanitarium deep in the mountains to overcome his alcoholism. There he meets a young nun named Maria who has a special ability to see inside people. In this isolated sanitarium Maria is the only person who seems to care for him and soon he feels drawn to her. While struggling with his withdrawal symptoms, Jeong-woo has a vision where his reality is different from what he believes. The further he escapes from his alcoholism, the closer he gets to confronting the past that he has denied for years.

Half 2016 star_border 5
Working at a transgender bar, Min-a is a female with male genitals. When her colleague is assaulted by a male customer, she steps in to help, only to accidentally kill the assaulter. At the court, Min-a insists that she had no choice ? she had to protect her colleague - but the situation is not favorable to her. Taking advantage of her sexual identity, the prosecutor drives the case as if the murder were a result out of jealousy, and Min-a’s own lawyer does not pay attention to her situation. Not until Min-a is placed in a men’s jail and is seized with terror do the human rights issues for transgender people emerge. Min-a is finally transferred to a prison for females, but still she suffers from misunderstanding. Presenting the transgender human rights issues as a court drama, this film tries to correct the myriad misunderstandings toward transgender people.

나의 아들, 나의 어머니 2015

Now Playing 2015 star_border 7.5
You and my romance 'Now Playing' screening begins soon!

The Disobeying Teachers 2015

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