1. Oryu Market (오류시장)
(오류시장)
2. Nora Noh (노라노)
Nora Noh, the best fashion designer, who dominated the scene of Korean women’s fashion and culture of the time. She was the first person ever to hold a fashion show in Korea and to make designer readymade clothes. She boldly dressed the Korean singer Yoon Bok-hee in a miniskirt and styled the duo vocal group Pearl Sisters in pantallong . One day, when Noh was preparing for her show, a young stylist named Suh Eun-young comes to see her out of the blue. What kind of show will the two of them create amidst their differences and conflicts?
3. Talking Architecture, City: Hall (말하는 건축 시티:홀)
A documentary film about Seoul City Hall Construction. The construction project has a hard going in every way. A city plan, excessive administrative notions, a design and all got mingled up. Can the project sail, yes?
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
4. Trip to Asia: The Quest for Harmony (Trip to Asia - Die Suche nach dem Einklang)
Journey with the musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic and their conductor Sir Simon Rattle on a breakneck concert tour of six metropolises across Asia: Beijing, Seoul, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei and Tokyo. Their artistic triumph onstage belies a dynamic and dramatic life backstage. The orchestra is a closed society that observes its own laws and traditions, and in the words of one of its musicians is, “an island, a democratic microcosm – almost without precedent in the music world - whose social structure and cohesion is not only founded on a common love for music but also informed by competition, compulsion and the pressure to perform to a high pitch of excellence... .” Never before has the Berlin Philharmonic allowed such intimate and exclusive access into its private world.
5. A Long Farewell (집의 시간들)
Dunchon Jugong Apts. at the edge of the metropolis, Seoul. It has been over 10 years since discussions of rebuilding these old apartment complexes began. The inhabitants tell us about their soon-to-be-demolished houses and apartments. Some of them have spent long spans of time here and some of them short. Some people are now raising daughters in the house they lived in since their childhood, some families came from other places and struggled to adjust. Each add their different forms of love to this space in their own way. As the long-postponed reconstruction nears reality, the day-to-day scenery of the apartment complexes and households is quietly coming to a close.
6. Tiger Spirit
Korea is a divided nation. Filmmaker Min Sook Lee sets out on a revelatory, emotion-charged journey into Korea’s broken heart, exploring the rhetoric and realism of reunification through the extraordinary stories of ordinary people.
7. Children Gone to Poland (폴란드로 간 아이들)
Tracing the footsteps of North Korean orphans who went to Poland during the Korean War, two women, one from the North and the other from the South, bond through the solidarity of wound and forge together a path toward healing.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
8. The Basement Satellite (망원동 인공위성)
In his Mangwon-dong basement art studio, a media artist Song Hojun dreams of making a satellite and shooting it out to space. He wants to make his dream real through OSSI movement. He tries to build a BIY satellite, and to sell 10,000 T-shirts for the 100 million won budget. His seemingly reckless and utterly ambitious project begins. Would his dream become real?
9. Mrs. B., a North Korean Woman (마담 B)
Portrait of Mrs. B., a tough charismatic North Korean woman who smuggles between North Korea, China and South Korea. With the money she gets, she plans to reunite with her two North Korean sons after years of separation.
It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.
10. Army (군대)
"You belong to the country for the next two years." The film describes Woo-cheol's struggles with becoming part of a group while trying to maintain his individuality throughout his military service period. A humorous yet cynical portrait of military groupism.
11. Full Metal Village (Full Metal Village)
The film describes the microcosmos of the small village Wacken and shows the clash of the cultures, before and during the biggest heavy metal festival in Europe.
It has an average vote of 6.632 on TMDB.
12. South Korea: Focused on Excellence
A documentary about the some athletes of South Korea and how can they inspire a new generation.
13. Kim Jong-boon of Wangshimni (왕십리 김종분)
The life of Kim Jong-boon, who has been a peddler in Wangshimni for 50 years, is admirable. At the age of 83, she no longer has to earn a living at her street stall, but she keeps working because she still has customers.
14. A Dream of Iron (철의 꿈)
Korea's past was whale worship; its present is industry. Is the future whales AND industry?
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
15. A War of Memories (기억의 전쟁)
Recording Nguyen Thi Thanh, the only survivor of Phong Nhi Phong Nhat massacre, where civilians were killed during the Vietnam War. Having lost all of her family at the age of eight and survived by herself, she is an open witness to the massacre of Vietnamese civilians and demands an official apology from the Korean government.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
16. Hundred Years' War in Korea (백년전쟁 1부: 두 얼굴의 이승만)
(백년전쟁 1부: 두 얼굴의 이승만)
17. Citizen Roh (시민 노무현)
In 2008, late President Roh Moo-hyun returned to his hometown Bongha village after his retirement and was joined by supporters as he recreated his hometown and began to clean up the Bonghae Mountain, cultivating Bongha Mountain, and cultivating environmentally friendly rice.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
18. Bamseom Pirates Seoul Inferno (밤섬해적단 서울불바다)
Grindcore punks Bamseom Pirates make music suitable for a sick society.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
19. Graeae: A Stationed Idea (그라이아이: 주둔하는 신)
(그라이아이: 주둔하는 신)
20. Aka Dan
YouTube musician and Korean American adoptee Dan Matthews travels to South Korea to perform and reunite with his biological family, including a long lost twin he never knew he had.