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A Quiet Dream

They're losers, but nice ones. Every day they sit at Yeri's bar, smitten by the young Chinese-Korean woman. Yeri doesn't have a preference. To her, they are equally sweet: Jongbin, a milk-drinking epileptic, Ikjune, a former petty criminal, and the introverted Jungbum, who fled from North Korea.

The Poet and the Boy

A married poet meets a teenage boy working at a donut shop and helplessly develops feelings for him.

Our Homeland

From the late 1950s through the '70s, more than 90,000 of the ethnic Koreans in Japan emigrated to North Korea, a country that promised them affluence, justice, and an end to discrimination. KAZOKU NO KUNI tells the story of one of their number, who returns for just a short period. For the first time in 25 years, Sonho is reunited with his family in Tokyo after being allowed to undergo an operation there. Sonho’s younger sister Rie is at the centre of the film, and is not hard to recognise as the director’s alter-ego. In her documentaries DE...

Confession

Two old college pals, Asai and Jiyong, make their annual pilgrimage up a mountain in the middle of winter in honor of their friend Sayuri who disappeared there 16 years earlier. However, Jiyong seriously injures his leg in the middle of a violent blizzard. Overcome by cold and pain, he asks Asai to let him die here and save his own life. First, though, he confesses to a horrible secret that has been eating away at him. He was the one who killed Sayuri that fateful day, out of jealousy. The problem, if there is one, is that Asai finds a cabin...

Ah, Wilderness: Part 1

Set in the near future around Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinji got out from a youth detention center. Barikan suffers from stuttering and extreme shyness. These two men meet in a boxing gym. Shinji and Barikan become friends and pursue boxing under a hopeless situation.

Canola

A girl who went missing after an accident returns 10 years later and reunites with her grandmother.

Lovers

Unique sensibility of independent film being ' Triple Treats ' omnibus melodrama tied a piece of 11 short films director .

Intimate Enemies

At a car accident site, Ji-Noo (Ryoo Seung-Bum), Na-Mi (Koh Joon-Hee), Jung-Sook (Ryoo Hyoun-Kyoung) and Yakuboo (Samuel Okyere) find a bag filled with money. They become involved in a dangerous case.

Maruyama, the Middle Schooler

Katsuya Maruyama is a middle school student boy full of obscene thoughts. He then meets Tatsuo Shimoi, a single father who moves into the same apartment complex. Tatsuo Shimoi is a bit of an enigma: he doesn't get along with the housewives in the apartment complex and doesn't appear to work. Through his encounter with the mysterious single father, Katsuya grows as a person.

The Fake

A convict returns to his home town to again torture his family, face his neighbors and try to destroy the local religious fanatics and their plans to keep money from the village people.

Always Behind You

Jun-ho likes taking pictures, and so does Sung-hee... He is showing her how to take pictures. One day, Suk-ho who has taught him taking pictures asks a favor of filming a still, and Jun-ho promises to go there with Sung-hee. That day, Jun-ho, who arrives later than Sung-hee notices that Sung-hee and Suk-ho become intimate. Oddly he feels that somehow something goes the wrong way. Since then, Jun-ho hears a bad news from his friend, Hyung-gi that he has seen Suk-ho going out with Sung-hee. He makes hard work of it. On his birthday, it happens...

Sunwoo and Ikjune

Currently, Sunwoo and Ikjune are lovers and co-directors of a movie. The film starts with a landscape shot at dawn. Ikjune is smoking a cigarette from the veranda of his house, looking at the village across the street. In the bedroom, Sunwoo is lying on Ikjune's bed with her eyes open. Next to them are the same movie scenarios. You can predict what they are thinking by looking at their faces. Production is half-way and the two are having a long conversation about what to shoot today as they are headed to the set. At the set, they are talking...

Ah, Wilderness: Part 2