A Chinese boyfriend suddenly faces the risk of deportation from South Korea for an absurd reason. His girlfriend embarks on a desperate search to find a way to protect their peaceful life together.
Niall Cunningham has spent his life on the waters of Dalkey, a place that has always felt like home. His father, Ken, served as the ferryman, a role steeped in tradition and community, until his passing two years ago. Now, Niall steps into his father’s place, navigating the tides of grief and responsibility as he becomes the new Ferryman of Dalkey, determined to keep a legacy alive.
This omnibus film was created for a workshop commemorating the 30th anniversary of Korea National University of Arts School of Film. Students, alumni, and faculty present eleven shorts exploring everyday images across film, photography, painting, games, animation, and advertising through contemplative, critical, and satirical approaches. From supercut aesthetics to structural compositions and essayistic narration, each work examines how images generate meaning. While functioning independently, these shorts intersect within a shared framework, offering new perspectives on viewing moving images.
Witnesses 2025 is an omnibus of two short documentaries. 1948, 사라진 병사들 traces the truth of the Yeosu–Suncheon Rebellion, which began on October 19, 1948, when soldiers of the 14th Regiment refused orders for the Jeju April 3rd suppression, declaring they “could not kill their own people.” 얼굴, 얼굴들 follows the life and legacy of a friend who dedicated himself to uncovering the truth behind state-sanctioned suspicious deaths.
"After a period in intensive care, Britney sets out on a road trip where time becomes entangled. Along the journey, she seeks to understand her relationship with people, with affection, and with her own body."
Beginning as an attempt to document the present by rewinding the past, the film reveals a startling truth: that which has vanished and that which will vanish both persist in the here and now. Traces of what was overlap with the current moment, creating a layered reality where memory and time blur, and the forgotten world asserts its continued existence.
Twenty years ago, at eighteen, Seonyoung suffered a severe spinal injury in a fall. Her family sold their home and shop in Incheon to cover medical bills, moving to her father's hometown of Cheongju. There, tragedy compounded: her father struggled with alcoholism, her mother's health failed from hard labor, and her brother developed a mental illness after a traumatic military incident. Now, Seonyoung studies for the civil service exam, hoping to pass and finally return to Incheon to reclaim the life and memories left behind.
Sunk in chronic lethargy, "I" follow my mother on a walk along Namdaecheon stream and recall an old elementary school assignment: catch a planarian. I never found one back then; I just played on the trampoline ("bang-bang") nearby. An unsolved mystery remained: do planarians really live in Namdaecheon? This film is the story of a middle-aged woman with a new ADHD diagnosis who, in trying to find the answer, tumbles down a rabbit hole of planarian obsession.
Lettuce seeds from an elderly neighbor take root in a city planter, growing across generations. This sight evokes memories: the neighbor's yard, her cat, the sound of her footsteps, and her hands, which, like a village craftsperson, cared for all surrounding life. A physical pain that began back then brings a new awareness of the body's inner entanglements and the invisible ripples left by the world’s countless grandmothers.
Japanese photojournalist Kuwabara Shisei boards a flight to Korea. Since his first visit in 1964 as a 27-year-old, Shisei has spent six decades documenting the turbulence of Korea's modern history: Cheonggyecheon, military camp towns, the Vietnam War deployment, and democracy movements. Now elderly, he returns, believing this might be his final journey. He carries a mission: to revisit the places and people that defined his life’s work. The film follows the photographer’s footsteps back into the heart of these historical sites.
The film connects the present of a failed revolutionary, who has left the factories and cities behind, with the death of a subcontracted worker two decades prior. Across this temporal divide, it explores the lingering, unabandonable possibility of a new revolution—a stark meditation on struggle, memory, and the embers of hope that refuse to be extinguished.
A team of companions decides to undertake a 300km journey by bike with the aim of joining and being part of a gathering of more than 20,000 Scouts and Guides of France. This film tells the story of their journey.
Creators, superfans, and stars including Aubrey Drake Graham delve deep into all things Degrassi in this engaging history of the Canadian show that changed teen TV.
In 2022, Navarra suffered devastating forest fires that came closer and closer to the city, burning more than 14,000 hectares. In this documentary, a collective and anonymous voice reflects on our relationship with nature.
Jarumi, a 14-year-old Awajún girl, lives in an Amazonian community where tradition and gender roles define her life. Her mother teaches her household chores and cultural values, while she observes how men experience a freedom that feels unattainable. Through drawing and nature, Jarumi seeks to break free from these expectations.
On the outskirts of the town of Izamal, in the heart of Yucatán, Mexico, the Oxte family live a life of small joys and inspiring familial love. Elena and her two sons, Liam and Janielle, spend their days cooking, playing with their pets, biking, knitting, and spinning tops in their backyard. We experience the depth of their care for each other by spending a day with them and a dream with them. Their dream, taking them to the ruins of the Mayan temples, playing amongst the lost structures and pools, enjoying the land where they were once kings.