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.
An atmospheric short film about a woman who grows wings and loves them, only to have her new sense of self shattered by the reactions, and perceived reactions, of those around her.
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.
Mi-rae, who has happy memories of spending time at the Eternal Cinema as a child, visits the theater that will soon be demolished. During her visit, the main character from a fantasy movie comes alive and they go see Hyun-jae, an old friend, the painter. However, the theater is on the verge of being demolished soon, and Mi-rae makes a stance in front of the crane.
Na-yoon, a designer working in Paju Book City, is caught in the middle of a custody battle. As the deadline for a book cover design approaches, she returns to the wetlands of Suncheon City where she once lived, gazing at the migrating birds...
[thóo-kong-á] is a stop-motion short film centered on the Taiwanese tradition of “bone collecting.” The story follows a boy who was raised by his grandfather, a professional bone collector. Since childhood, he was often asked to help with the ritual, though he never understood its meaning — only finding it exhausting and unpleasant. But through repeated experiences, he gradually comes to see that bone collecting isn’t something taboo — it is a gentle, meaningful practice. It’s a way for the living to say a proper farewell to the dead. In the end, with newfound understanding and respect, he personally performs the final bone collecting for his grandfather.
A man secludes himself in the forest with his cat. The ghosts of his past begin to torment him, being forced to face his fears and guilts in a try to not be consumed by madness.
“You have read all the stories in the world, but can you tell me your story?” The city library is preparing to shut its doors. Confronted with the prospect of being shut down, Mia, an AI database and librarian, begins to question her existence and develop her first creative consciousness.