After a long absence, Stasya returns to her hometown. She missed her father's funeral and has a hard time meeting her elder sister. While sorting out family issues, Stasya meets different local strangers on the way, who take her on a strange night trip.
Dodo, a 7th grader in middle school, has a secret. Whenever she feels emotionally overwhelmed, she creates a creature called the 'Blood Monster.' Her mother tries everything to make Dodo stop. She takes her to a traditional Korean medicine clinic, has her try herbal medicine, and even scolds her, but Dodo continues to summon the Blood Monster over and over again.
Seven-year-old Nari and her sister Yuri, 17, are close. Each day after school, Yuri drinks homemade red liquor, calling it “fox blood.” One day, while she’s out, a thirsty Nari takes a sip.
MALIGNANT PRACTICE is an animated short film based on the medical misfortune of a young woman whose breast cancer was missed by a doctor and a mammogram. This true story emphasizes the flaws within our healthcare system and the importance of being one’s own healthcare advocate.
On an ordinary afternoon, I witness a lizard sever its tail and flee. Feeling a strange kinship with the abandoned tail, I wonder if humans, too, are beings made of two selves.
In the near-deserted town of Dalpo-dong, on the verge of complete extinction, 98-year-old Malbun is its last remaining resident. Her days are spent quietly, leaning on walls to support her frail body as she tends to a small vegetable garden in front of her house, awaiting the end of her life. One night, a piercing scream awakens her. Following the sound to the communal bathroom of a nearby apartment building, she encounters Jia, a desperate 17-year-old girl who has come to abandon her unborn child.
In the early 2000's when romance - a word now faded- was just a part of everyday life... a strange couple sit in a cafe, talking to each other, with love that has already faded away. What are their true thoughts behind the smoke and scent of coffee and cigarettes?
Million Lucky Bath is a public bathhouse where everyone’s naked each with a story of one’s own: a wealthy mother, a poor mother, a mother who lost her child, a friend separated from her hometown, and a young woman who loves humanity but is saddened by her inability to act. Ultimately, they all love and yearn. This is the story of a bathhouse that serves as a vessel for the profound and aching affection that binds all of mankind.
After losing Goldie, nothing feels the same. But when someone knocks on the door at an hour when no one should be out, what appears on the other side is… unexpected.
A broke artist, having lost both her creative spark and her job, faces impending eviction from her apartment. Desperate to find a roommate to split the rent, she receives an unlikely applicant who offers a small but pivotal helping hand.