Korean Cinema Today
EXIT"Viruses don’t have an ideology." This is what Steven SODERBERGH said, the director of the excellent infectious disaster film Contagion. It seems to mean that the virus that causes the disaster is indiscriminate and therefore even...
World Cinema
Electric GirlMia, growing her dream of becoming an actor by working part-time at a bar, takes an opportunity to work as the voice of ‘Kimiko,’ a female superhero of Japanese animation. At one point, Mia, who is so infatuated with acting Kimiko...
A Window on Asian Cinema
The WayfarersNathuni is a middle-aged woman who lives in a rural village with her bedridden husband and two school-aged children. There is no food at home and no work in the village, and there is a danger of rape even in something as innocuous...
Wide Angle
While you playJimin is a three-time test taker who hopes to go to an acting school. She asks her acting teacher, Bokyum, to do a farewell skit to break up with her boyfriend.
Wide Angle
Vulnerable Histories (A Road Movie)Two twenty-somethings talk to each other in English on the streets, in the subway, indoors, in a park, and in a car. They are Woohi, a Japan-born third-generation Korean woman living in Japan, and Christian, a half-Swiss, half-Jap...
Special Programs in Focus
An Aimless BulletAn Aimless Bullet is based on LEE Beomsun′s novel, which gives a glimpse of the Korean society′s shadow before and after the Korean War. It depicts the pain of displaced people and absurdities of the Korean society at that time at...
Wide Angle
OverseasIn the Philippines, women who wish to find employment abroad as nannies, domestic workers, or caregivers come to this training center. In addition to crucial know-hows on neatly and perfectly performing house chores, women learn f...
A Window on Asian Cinema
The Murders of OisoThe Murders of Oiso tells the story of four 20-year-old friends?Tomoki, Shun, Kazuya, and Eita?who live in the seaside village of Oiso. The four friends grew up together, attended the same high school, and now work at the same con...
Special Programs in Focus
Old Boy"Who are YOU?" This line of Old Boy has become a catchy buzzword. Actually, many of the chic and ingenious things in Old Boy have become pleasantly popular among the public. Not only did it create a popular trend, but it brought p...
World Cinema
OlegIf you think of Southeast Asian migrant workers living in Korea, you can guess the life of Latvia migrant workers working in Belgium. Oleg is the story of a man who moves from a poor country in Europe to a rich country to make mon...