Map without Island (2021)
Género : Documental
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 31M
Director : Kim Sung-eun
Sinopsis
The film shows demonstrations against building the second airport in Jeju Island the performances of environmentalists very closely and in detail, by which it develops a desperate love story.
Un gángster intenta limpiar su vida para cuidar a su hermana y sobrino enfermos. Pero alguien que lo apuntaba accidentalmente los mata en su lugar. En estado de shock, decide vengarse.
La acción tiene lugar en una isla de la costa sur de Corea, poblada por mujeres que viven del mar y que estructuran sus vidas según las viejas tradiciones. En esta isla se observan los elementos más primitivos de las experiencias humanas. De acuerdo con una trama aparentemente detectivesca que cuenta cómo uno de los nativos de la isla desaparece al regresar del continente, se estructuran historias paralelas que van desnudando, poco a poco, la verdad de otras misteriosas desapariciones.
Delightfully comic exploration of the emotional and social geography of an art-house film director.
Una niña que desapareció después de un accidente regresa 10 años después y se reencuentra con su abuela.
A man on a bike trip across the country gets killed in an accident. His lover, So-wol, moves to the island where he died and settles down. 3 years later, the couple’s close friend, Cheol, pays her a surprise visit. Staying at her place, he goes fishing or ventures out looking for a particular lighthouse. Slowly, without knowing, the seemingly mundane daily life of island mends their broken heart.
Jeju es una isla envidiable para todos, pero no podemos olvidar el profundo dolor que existe. Hace más de medio siglo, decenas de miles fueron masacrados bajo el espectro de la ideología; Hace tan solo unos años, en abril, tantos estudiantes quedaron enterrados en nuestros corazones sin llegar a esta hermosa isla. Everglow comienza con la linda lucha de Kyung Hoon, quien visitó Jeju para hacer un documental sobre Jin Ok, una buceadora. El trabajo de Kyung Hoon se convierte en una misión sincera para las almas enterradas en las profundidades del mar y las montañas.
Jin Myung es un psiquiatra y exorcista. Con ayuda de su asistenteJi Kwang intentan el exorcismo de Geum Joo . Ella sufre de un fenómeno bizarro. Ellos se ven enfrentados a una poderosa presencia que no es Geum Joo. Un horror extremo se desprende de ella.
A married poet meets a teenage boy working at a donut shop and helplessly develops feelings for him.
The daughter of a poor rancher, Si-eun's only hope is to one day, become a jockey. With her mother passing away at her birth, her favorite horse, Chun-doong, has become not only her friend, but also a soul mate. She is devastated when Chun-doong is sold to another owner, but when they are reunited two years later they have a chance to create a miracle by teaming up in a race.
Jeongbong and Seong-hye run a guesthouse on Jeju Island. On one late summer day, Seong-hye’s ex-boyfriend and Jeongbong’s former female colleague visit the guesthouse, and the complicated romances of four individuals starts to unfold.
Yeong-joo, a former synchronized swimming athlete goes to Jeju Island to put together a synchronized swimming team for a performance. She slowly befriends the haenyeo, or female divers, and gradually begins to fit into their way of life.
A former jockey who became blind after losing his wife in an accident gets a second chance with the help of his daughter and an injured horse.
If you look into the entrance of one of the huge caves on the Korean island of Jeju, it looks like a camera lens. If you walk into the cave, it looks like a screen, a rectangle showing clouds and white light, just like a film. Director Kim Minjung delves into the bloody history of Jeju, where tens of thousands were killed in a massacre in 1948. The camera follows the traces in the landscape, sometimes transformed by a strident, distance-creating red light, accompanied by a commentary by avant-garde filmmaker Hollis Frampton. Film as a means to address history and its taboos.
Second-generation migrant worker, Soo is released after receiving probation and community service sentence for his use of violence. Along with his friend Pil-sung, he ends up working as brokers for illegal migrant workers. While fulfilling his community service duty, he meets surfers. Soo falls in love with surfing as the surfers Ddong-ggo and Hae-na teach him how to surf.
A pensive man visits an empty house. A neighbor tells him the house is haunted but he ignores it. Park Jinseong's second feature that takes place in Jeju Island gazes into the pain of life.
Three friends from college are now on the brink of turning 40. To attend a funeral on Jeju Island, they go on an unexpected trip as a getaway and wind up at a guest house, where water shimmers, wind blows, and pretty women are seductive, inviting the trio back to their 20s.
The sudden death of her mother brings Myung-eun back home to Jeju island. There she meets her estranged sister Myung-ju and Myung-ju's daughter Seung-ah, still living at their old home, and Hyun-ah who has lived with them for over 20 years like a relative. A career woman whose hard exterior masks her illegitimacy and abandonment issues, Myung-eun tells Hyun-ah she wants to start looking for her father after the funeral. Single-minded in her desire to dig up memories of her father and discover why he left, Myung-eun resents that Myung-ju, who like their mother is a carefree fish trader and an unmarried mother of a young daughter, seemingly doesn't care. At first Myung-ju is reluctant to accompany Myung-eun, but after Hyun-ah persuades her, guilt and her sense of duty as an older sibling prevails. And so the two sisters who are dissimilar in character...
A family rides the circumference of Jeju Island for 2 weeks, with everything they need strapped to their 3 folding bikes - they meet remarkable people and discover the island's beautiful natural landscapes. The first person they meet in Jeju Island happens to be a tour guide who gives them some valuable advice: meet the people of Jeju Island, go see the small islands off Jeju-do and visit the shrinking 'gotjawal' rocky forests. This sets the tone for their journey as they set out from Jeju City to circumnavigate the entire island by bicycle with their 10-year-old son.
Jeju-do is the largest of Korean islands and lies between Korea and Japan. There, for hundreds of years, women dive without breathing apparatus, to the ocean floor and collect shellfish, octopus, and urchins that they sell. The divers are in their sixties and seventies and their daughters do not want to inherit their work, lifestyle, and health problems that go with diving. As a filmmaker I was privileged to meet many of these women and dive with them. Their stories of hardship and pride confirmed my desire to record this unique and ancient tradition.
Grand Prix" covers the world of horse racing, centered around the romance between a male horse jockey and a female horse jockey. Seo Joo-Hee (Kim Tae-Hee) is an ambitious equestrian who loses her beloved horse in a racing accident and also injures her arm. Devastated she quits the sport and travels to Jeju Island. On Jeju Island, Seo Joo-Hee meets fellow equestrian Woo-Seok (Yang Dong-Kun), a former winner of the Japan Cup who is also experienced a similar slump as Seo Joo-Hee. With Woo-Seok's help, Seo Joo-Hee becomes inspired to compete for the Grand Prix Chamionship.