Red Maria

Two friends, Jung Jong-suk and Hwang Kyung-min, meet after several years and talk about their time in school, which left them scarred.

Korean sex worker Yonhee goes to Japan to build solidarity with her counterparts there. YAMASITA Youngae heads for Kyoto to give a lecture on how former prostitute-turned-comfort women were left out of the movement to achieve justice for comfort women. Korean professor PARK Yu-ha is sued by former comfort women because of her book Comfort Women of the Empire. Reportage writer KAWADA Fumiko Tells the story of BAE Bonki, a Korean who worked as a comfort woman in Okinawa. Shuttling between the issue of sex workers who refuse to be pictured as victims and the issue of comfort women who couldn’t even be acknowledged as victims, the film reveals stories that had disappeared from official memory.

Gangjeong Village, located at the southernmost part of Jeju Island's Seogwipo City, is in the true sense a 'breathtaking land of water.' In this film, eight directors independently yet collaboratively orchestrate a clever and humorous "mission" at this place where the groundwork for building a naval military base is in progress.

What are labor movement leaders of the 1980s and ’90s doing today, 20 years later? This film begins with the daily lives of four middle-aged Korea Telecom laborer “ajussis.” They “live,” hanging off of utility poles, making repairs below manholes, eating lonely meals of soup and rice, making sales, and getting on the red-eye train once a week to see their families. They are within us and among our neighbors, quietly living day by day. But the moment they start talking, what they do becomes more than just “living.” That’s because they have all dreamed of a world for laborers, fighting against Korea Telecom’s unfair layoff program, in the past, present and future.

Twenty-something Se-young, thirty-something Kyung-eun, and forty-something Kyung-soon all try to find the true meaning of their existence within a family that constantly violates the self while Vincent, an American adoptee, mocks Korea’s ‘blood relations obsessed’ society.

Working at the super-supermarket Homever occupied the Worldcup Stadium store. It was the first sit-in at a retailer led by women, who were until them leading ordinary lives. The originally-planned 2-day 1-night strike went on for 21 days. During the sit-in, they enjoyed temporary freedom and happiness, free from work and housework. Their struggles became the epitome of struggles of casualised women workers. However, there was no easy solution.

Someone constantly gains wealth and power from a community of race, of nation... Not only that, that someone tries to pass on that power and wealth to his descendants forever. Because of that, someone has to constantly maintain this community of race, of nation... Someone, therefore, caselessly recreates the prestigious values of this community, which exceeds the self... and, in the end, a forever self-reproducing circulating ring which comes from the lives and actions of those who have been brainwashed that they are part of this community from the womb...