Layover Hotel

Courts are not equally accessible to everyone and people lose trust in the judicial system. But here comes a lawyer with the best skills and a commission fee of just one dollar, committed to social justice and defending fundamental human rights. This extraordinary defense lawyer confronts blindfolded justice and highly paid opposing counsel for his clients' rights.

After his mother's death, 16-year-old Hyung-ju suspects that his father is not his biological father. A secret paternity test reveals that he is not. Confused, he uses his math skills to figure out his biological father and embarks on a journey with his best friend, Ji-su, to find him.

An aspiring musician and delivery driver is taken advantage of by both his employer and his close friend.

Yu-jin suddenly appears at a surf shop run by Dong-min after three years of separation. Yu-jin boldly asks 15 million won from Dong-min. She wants to get paid for the branding "Killer Swell". Dong-min is confused by Yu-jin's sudden visit after thinking he already forgot all about her. Yu-jin who visited Dong-min is also confused. She left him first because she was unhappy with their relationship, but now, she doesn't know what she wants. After their parting, can their romance begin again?

The flight scheduled to leave Incheon International Airport for New York makes an emergency landing at Gimhae Airport due to engine problems. As the passengers will take an alternative flight the following day, they are staying at a hotel provided by the airline during a layover. While staying an unscheduled night at the same hotel, they have an unexpected experience.

Hyeonjae was a war correspondent who quit due to his trauma of war. Thinking of the special communication he had with plants as a kid, he returns to his grandfather's arboretum. At that very place, he gains the courage to live on and decides to run a plant café in the city. To his customers who seek him out with their stories and plants, Hyeonjae provides a remedy for not only their plants but also their hearts.

The film takes place in the summer of 2019, but in a world still under a dictatorship rule. Daegu Police Counterintelligence detectives In-hyeok and Sang-jun are monitoring Lee Su-gyeong, wife of Choi Myeong-hun, who is wanted for violating security laws. In-hyeok feels compassion for the pregnant Su-gyeong living in hardship. The film is both a road movie about In-hyeok, Su-gyeong, and Sang-jun, and a story about people forced to hide in the mountains from corrupt power.

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.

Centred on immigrant workers from Vietnam and Sri Lanka, Choi’s heroic short goes deep into Korea’s ‘black economy’, where exploitation and injustice are rife and racist outbursts are just one too many shots of soju away. The storyline shuttles from Incheon to Daegu, where the social-activist priest Jang does his best to help the immigrants with their claims for compensation, severance pay and employment rights. Fine, eye-opening stuff, rather well acted by the non-pro cast – which includes Choi himself.