Korean watchlist

In a small Café, Min-hee Kim plays a guest who prefers to observe but not interact with the other guests herself.

In the middle of winter, a poet invites his son to meet him at a hotel.

The married Bongwan leaves home in the dark morning and sets off to work. The memories of the woman who left weigh down on him. That day Bongwan's wife finds a love note, bursts into the office, and mistakes Areum for the woman who left.

A bullied girl becomes friends with a new kid during a break, but when classes start up again, their new friendship is nearly ruined when the bullying continues.

A foray into the uncanny with a spin on Luis Buñuel's "That Obscure Object of Desire".

In 1930s Korea, a girl is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress who lives a secluded life on a countryside estate. But the maid has a secret: She is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler to help seduce the Lady and steal her fortune.

Eun-hee is an actress whose acting is poor, but she also plays in her real life. Her performance full of lies helps her feel she creates different personalities each time she dates separate men. Eventually a pack of her lies is tangled up and everything is about to be messed up. Ryohei, a Japanese writer, visits Seoul for his book launch party. He often writes a story pushing characters into a corner and then makes it be a tragedy. He meets Eun-hee by chance, who is in a trouble, just like in his novels.

A fine arts student meets an attractive bartender, and the two women begin an intimate relationship.

THE TRUTH BENEATH follows a mysterious 15-day scandal of a politician and his wife as their daughter goes missing just before the national elections.

The life and death of Dongju Yoon who dared to dream becoming a poet during the harsh period of Japan's occupation of Korea.

A married film director falls for a young painter - twice.

Can one day shape the rest of your life? A feature documentary on the South-Korean education system

A sickly girl Ju-ran transfers to a new sanatorium boarding school to regain health. But she discovers that students are disappearing and notices abnormal changes happening to her body. She tries to discover what secret is hidden.

A VIP hospital nurse is on a journey to find out the next of kin of the brain dead prostitute, and uncovers her sad life story.

A young police officer is sent to work in a small village and takes in a teenager to protect her from her abusive stepfather.

Kwon returns to Seoul from the mountains and is given a packet of letters from Mori back from Japan to propose to her. Kwon drops and scatters the undated letters. She reads them and has to make sense of the chronology - and so must we?

A grumpy actress, her lost ex-boyfriend, a friendly detective, and his damaged sister form the web of enchanted melancholy, with the help of a little soju.

The various faces of youth and people in an enclosed space of a convenience store for 12 hours.

A simple labourer in a remote mountain village is driven to desperate measures to provide for the women in his life.

Yong-ju, Gi-woong and Gi-taek used to be best friends in middle school, but in high school, Gi-woong becomes a member of the gang that bullies Gi-taek. As Yong-ju tries to fix broken relationship, he realizes his feelings toward Gi-woong.

A Korean director visits a small village in Japan to find inspiration for his film.

A love story comes to an end when a woman sets out in search of a shamanic god. Director Kelvin Kyung Kun Park takes the trauma of a spurned lover as the starting point for his own search for a god. He makes several finds across various narrative strands - among whales in the sea, in a shipyard, at a steelworks. All of them are giants of their respective times: vast, sublime, godlike. Park's imagery also evokes the divine: embers and steel, sparks and fire; people dwarfed by huge cogwheels, robbed of their individuality. A brave new world in which workers produce modern industrial goods, even as the industry has long since been producing the modern worker. Work is a god we have submitted to. Yet every existence is temporary and fleeting, which applies in equal measure to both relationships and gods.

Three friendships turn sour due to a mishap. Their relationships with each other are forever changed.

A Beijing professor returns to his stomping grounds for a friend's funeral. Reflecting on the past, he meets a tea shop owner who sparks feelings of love in a time of pain.

A high-tech police surveillance team attempts to take down a gang of ruthless bank robbers.