Documentary
On April 16th, 2014, the Sewol Ferry sank in South Korea, taking with it the lives of 304 of its 476 passengers. South Korea's worst maritime disaster traumatized a nation while simultaneously sinking the country's emotional spirit. The film asks why the rescue of Korea's children and people was neglected on the fateful day the Sewol sank.
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Korea: The Never-Ending War
Cyber Hell: Exposing an Internet Horror
Island Being
K-Family Affairs
Several Successful Situations; Simultaneous & Successive
Permission to Exist
President′s 7 Hours
Seven Years-Journalism without Journalist
Geographies of Kinship
Shadow Flowers
Mis-President
The Talent Show
TXT (TOMORROW X TOGETHER) STILL DREAMING
White Jungle
The Rainbow Passage
Two Doors
The Last of the Sea Women
After Diving Bell
Open Shutters
Intention
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IMDB 7.8 | Apr , 2019
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IMDB 7.1 | May , 2022
Anonymous and exploitative, a network of online chat rooms ran rampant with sex crimes. The hunt to take down its operators required guts and tenacity.Island Being
IMDB 0 | Dec , 2007
Sorokdo is an island of Korea where the scars of the wars are visible. Wars that sowed confusion, suffering and injustice in a society concentrated on its economic development.K-Family Affairs
IMDB 6 | Jan , 2025
In her first feature-length documentary, filmmaker Nam Arum turns her camera on her parents, two members of South Korea’s 386 Generation. The political activism of this generation came to a head in June 1987 with major protests that forced the authoritarian government to hold universal suffrage elections and implement key democratic reforms. Over 35 years later, the filmmaker reflects on the state of this democracy through a warm-hearted family portrait set against the backdrop of the country’s recent history. Using a personal and intimate cinematic style, Arum examines her father's adherence to conventionality as a high-ranking civil servant and her mother's fervent enthusiasm as a feminist activist. In the midst of these two contrasting dynamics, Arum seeks to discover her own role and how she can contribute to social change.Several Successful Situations; Simultaneous & Successive
IMDB 0 | Sep , 2024
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IMDB 0 | Dec , 2020
In just sixty years, South Korea went from being one of the poorest countries on the Asian continent to having the 12th largest economy in the entire world. Every year, it is measured that Korean students have some of the highest test scores and a higher rate of acceptance into Ivy League schools compared to all other nations. But on the flip side, South Korea also has one of the highest suicide rates in the developed world, the highest gender pay gap of all developed countries, and the highest plastic surgery rate per capita. Always expected to receive top scores and constantly bombarded by media and messages that seem to demand nothing short of visual “perfection,” how do these individuals come to accept and learn to love themselves as they are?President′s 7 Hours
IMDB 9 | Nov , 2019
The film traces PARK Geun-hye's life back to the 1970s, when the leader-follower relationship began between PARK, who became the first lady of the Yushin regime, and CHOI Taemin, the leader of a pseudo-religion. It then examines the Sewol ferry incident, CHOI Soonsil Gate, candlelight rallies, and finally the impeachment.Seven Years-Journalism without Journalist
IMDB 8 | Jan , 2017
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IMDB 0 | Nov , 2019
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IMDB 0 | Oct , 2021
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IMDB 4.5 | Oct , 2017
My father led a coup in 1961. Two years later, I became the president's daughter.The Talent Show
IMDB 0 | Apr , 2023
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IMDB 6 | Dec , 2011
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IMDB 0 | Feb , 2020
Following a year in Cadance and Amanda's gender transition, this intimate documentary charts not only their personal transformation but the building of a life and community together in regional New South Wales.Two Doors
IMDB 8 | Jun , 2012
The documentary Two Doors traces the Yongsan Tragedy of 2009, which took the lives of five evictees and one police SWAT unit member. Left with no choice but to climb up a steel watchtower in an appeal to the right to live, the evictees were able to come down to the ground a mere 25 hours after they had started to build the watchtower, as cold corpses. And the surviving evictees became lawbreakers. The announcement of the Public Prosecutors’ Office that the cause of the tragedy lay in the illegal and violent demonstration by the evictees, who had climbed up the watchtower with fire bombs, clashed with voices of criticism that an excessive crackdown by government power had turned a crackdown operation into a tragedy.The Last of the Sea Women
IMDB 7.4 | Sep , 2024
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IMDB 0 | May , 2018
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IMDB 0 | Oct , 2021
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IMDB 9.2 | Apr , 2018
A documentary that scientifically analyses and tracks down the route of the Sewol Ferry that sank on the 16th of April in 2014 using its AIS to discover the cause of the unconfirmed sinking.