Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2025
• 62min

What is cinema? What does the theater mean to us? The omnibus film Time of Cinema, composed of two shorts, explores diverse ways in which films, theaters, and audiences form relationships. Director Lee Jongpil’s Chimpanzee uses an...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2025
• 108min

On the day a meteor strike melts the Antarctic ice and a great flood engulfs the world, the waters rise to submerge even high-rise apartments. An-na (Kim Da-mi) struggles desperately to save her son, Ja-in. Meanwhile, Hee-jo (Park...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2025
• 98min

Seorim (Kang Hae-rim), who works in a hospital’s administration office, is cornered financially. She can’t afford her insurance premiums, has fallen into the clutches of private lenders, and is on the run. To make matters worse, h...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2025
• 99min

In the late 1990s, a gang called ‘Sikgupa’ ruled their neighborhood. With a name that means ‘the family clan’ the mob expands its influence with strong solidarity and exceptional fighting skills, eventually taking control of a sma...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2025
• 108min

Hyeong-jun and Woo-sik, who once traded insults and even fists, sit around a table sharing beef and radish soup with Hwa-jin, who used to scold them for such behavior. Enduring each day by collecting waste paper and selling vegeta...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2025
• 98min

Gyubin (Jang Gyu-ri), a poor college student, finds herself in a desperate situation with no place to live. Struggling just to stay in school, she cannot afford the hefty deposit required for a rental room, nor does she have any m...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2025
• 108min

Actor Ha Jung-woo’s fourth directorial work, The People Upstairs, is a carefully mischievous and oddly spirited farce, as well as a dense and provocative chamber drama infused with sharp humor. Jung-ah (Kong Hyo-jin) and her husba...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2025
• 100min

AUDITION 109, co-directed by actor Jung Woo?who speaks as naturally as he breathes and acts as naturally as he speaks?and director Oh Seong-ho, who made a delicate yet solid debut with Through My Midwinter (2022), tells the story ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2025
• 133min

The story of a legendary killer who grows old and frail. From its very premise, the film sparks the imagination, and with action that heightens curiosity about the killer’s past, it evolves into a tale of people searching for mean...

• Berlin Berlinale Special

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2025
• 112min

The brighter the lights, the deeper the city’s shadows. Mi-sun (Han So-hee) and Do-kyung (Jun Jong-seo) endure the harsh realities of life by relying solely on each other. Dreaming of a quiet life after retirement, they scrape tog...

• Toronto Special Presentations