Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2015
• 116min

Gwang-soo, a promising teenaged swimmer, skips training regularly because he is overconfident of his ability. His violent coach gives up on him and Gwang-soo quit swimming. Years later, Gwang-soo works as a swimming instructor. El...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2015
• 110min

Film director Inseong and scriptwriter Yunju have been seeing each other secretly. Mina, Inseong’s ex-girlfriend, is now living in Japan, so when she decides to come to Korea to gather some news material, she makes contact with hi...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2015
• 99min

Under Japanese rule, there is a girls’ boarding school in the countryside, which has very strict rules and regulations. New student Juran is finding it difficult to adapt to the strange ways of the school, and only Yeondeok among ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2015
• 126min

Ode to My Father was a box office smash with over 10 million cinema admissions in 2015. As a child, Deoksu experiences and lives through the Korean War. His parents take a boat heading south, but he is separated from his father at...

• Berlin Film Festival (Panorama)

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2015
• 112min

Based on a true story, it explores the 1978 kidnapping of a child in Busan. When the child is taken, the parents naturally try every possible means to find their daughter. At the request of the despairing couple, Detective Gong Gi...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2015
• 93min

Four friends who just turned twenty take a trip to Pohang for two days and one night, in order to spend time with Sangwu, who is to join the navy the following day. While drinking on the beach, they see a woman being beaten up by ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2015
• 95min

Gangjae is a middle-aged family man living with a daughter, a high school senior, and a trustworthy and supportive wife. He tells his wife that he will marry her again in the next life, but he once had a secret passion she knows n...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2015
• 95min

After being diagnosed with stomach cancer, Yeonhui 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 a...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2015
• 85min

An old man living on the island of Mireukdo lives a self-sufficient life, adhering to ascetic principles typical of a monk. Now and then the phone rings and shortly thereafter a visitor arrives; the old man dutifully prepares rice...

• 2013 APM Project

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2015
• 90min

A woman living with her paralyzed mother takes on part-time jobs to get by. At times she works as a dancer promoting new businesses and at others as a decorator prepping wedding hall venues. Resentful of her father and unhappy wit...

• 2015 ACF Post-Production Fund