Prayer of the Isle

To watch Prayer of the Isle, you need some preparation. The two-and-a-half-hour-long film does not kindly tell a story nor invite you with the pleasures of various splendid cuts. Instead, it leads you to the long-take scenes and dreamy images where you look in...

How Have You Been

At the age of 33, Yeon-kyung has decided to give up on music after repeatedly failing auditions. She's been chasing her dream of becoming a singer ever since she sang in a radio contest for Jung-ha in middle school, but she can't hold on any longer. On...

The Tenants

Seoul is no longer a city in pursuit of happiness. At least, not in the future depicted in this film. There, the protagonist KIM Shin-dong coughs endlessly as he struggles to survive. The Tenants unfolds this landscape in black and white, adding vital imaginat...

The Land of Morning Calm

One night, a young sailor disappears. The old captain reports that the sailor fell into the sea, causing an uproar in the village. The sailor’s mother waits by the dock every day for her son to return. It soon comes to light that the sailor’s Vietnamese wife w...

The Berefts

An old man and a young woman in shabby clothes enter an abandoned motel in a deserted town. It is only after a while that we realize that they are a father and his developmentally disabled daughter, and that the two of them live their lives searching for empty...

Devils Stay

IN THREE DAYS, THE DEVIL SHALL BE GONE OR AWOKEN When Seung-do (PARK Shin-yang), a heart specialist, and his wife find their daughter So-mi (LEE Re) showing strange symptoms by the day, they decide to attempt an exorcism ritual. Upon arrival, Priest Ban (LEE Min-ki) is sure there is the devil inside her, and the ritual seems to drive it out successfully, but ends in So-mi’s sudden death. As her funeral begins, Seung-do, who notices some strange signs in So-mi's body, confronts his conviction that she may not be dead yet, and her heart is still beating. No one believes him, especially Priest Ban, who strongly opposes him saying that it is by the menacing spirit inside her. During three days of So-mi’s funeral, they must each uncover the terrifying truth about the mystery, and prove who is

Lucky, Apartment

Depicting how the conflict between a same-sex couple manifests within the structure of Korean society, Lucky, Apartment breaks new ground in Korean queer cinema: it is a brilliant social drama that reveals the reality of our treatment of minorities. Hee-suh, a...

Here Me: Our Summer

26-year-old Yong-jun (Hong Kyung) is troubled by his lack of dreams when he falls for the same-age Yeo-reum (Roh Yoon-seo) at first sight. Yeo-reum takes care of her little sister Ga-eul (Kim Min-ju), a swimmer with hearing impairments, regarding her sister’s ...

Peafowl

Shinmyung, a passionate waacking dancer, aspires to finance her genderreassignment surgery by winning a dance battle with a large jackpot, but ends up in second place. At the same time, she learns that her father, a master of traditional Nongak, has passed awa...

Heavy Snow

Teenagers Suan and Seol form a connection on the sandy beaches of Gangneung – a place they continuously return to in order to find each other. Suan’s life is turned upside down when famous actress Seol joins her performing arts high school. The two instantly h...