Heo Joon-seok

Miracle: Letters to the President

Dreaming of making a way station for his sister and the villagers who have no choice but to commute along the dangerous train tracks every day, Joon-kyung sends many letters to the President, but with no reply. Ra-hee, who has a crush on Joon-kyung, does everything she can to help him meet the President.

The Glorious My Revenge

Three years after the expiration of the ten year statute of limitations, police detective Ryoo Yi-jae meets the man who killed his son in a hit and run accident.

The Childe

Han, a Filipino-Korean boxer hits the final punch against his opponent at an illegal game and returns home with a few dollars to pay for his mother's surgery.

Way Back Home

Jeong-yoon and Jong-bae own a car body repair shop together that gets in financial trouble. To help cover the losses and take care of her family, Jeong-yoon decides to smuggle thirty kilograms of cocaine.

Tasty Ending

An anthology of three short films by Kim Jeong-in, Jung So-young, and Hwang Seul-gi. It uses food and people to capture the warmth of everyday life that everyone can relate to.

The Highway Family

Depicts the process of meeting a family who lives a homeless life like camping along a highway rest area, and a couple who accidentally hold hands and the process of the birth of a new family. The story of a family wandering the streets with the hope that they will meet the warmth and affection, compassion, trust, and hope between people who still exist in the cold reality, is revived with the courage and help of someone.

My Brilliant Life

A couple of teenagers have a son who suffers from progeria, a rare genetic disorder which makes one age exponentially faster than normal. 16 years later, the child has the body of an 80 year old in the final days of his life writing a book about his parents' love story.

Twenty

A story about three friends who just turned twenty; an age where you can do whatever you want, love whoever you want with opportunities abroad.

The Con Artists

A wily safecracker is forced to help a mob boss pull off a $150 million heist, but smells a double-cross in the works.

My Dictator

Sung-geun is an untalented actor who makes a living playing minor roles. He happens to land on the role as Kim Il-sung, the former leader of North Korea, for the rehearsal of the South-North Korea Summit. Sung-geun becomes passionately immersed in his role, motivated by his son who looks up to him. However, the summit is not realized, and Sung-geun ends up lost in the delusion that he really is Kim Il-sung.

The Stone

A gang boss Nam-hae meets a young Go player Min-su, who rekindles his interest in the game. Despite his outstanding talent, Min-su has been wasting his days as a gambler without pursuing a real career out of it. Nam-hae orders his second in command to persuade Min-su and Min-su becomes Nam-hae’s private Go tutor. In learning Go from Min-su, Nam-hae looks back on his own life. While Min-su discovers the coarse masculine underworld, the meaning of life and true victory through Nam-hae. However, when Nam-hae’s competition starts to expand their territory, Nam-hae is forced into a path to destruction.

Cheer Up Mr. Lee

A TV station follows a daily life of a young ‘wanna-be filmmaker’.

A Time to Love

Moon, a middle aged woman who works at a mart while raising a high school daughter alone. Moon had come to Lake Sanjeong with her crush on a picnic last fall, but now she visits the area alone. Jin-cheol wakes up in the morning to find a stranger in bed with him. To make matters worse, she is in high school! What will happen to the two? Will they fall in love?

Pieta

A loan shark is forced to reconsider his violent lifestyle after the arrival of a mysterious woman claiming to be his long-lost mother.

Home

Junho, a grade school student, is left all alone after his mom’s car accident. His half-brother’s father takes pity on him and brings him home. Knowing that he can be kicked out any day, Junho tries desperately to stay.

Mirage

En route to his hometown of Incheon to receive an award for his book about Mil-wol Island, where people have been known to vanish, author Dong-jo accidentally loses his bag. Needing to borrow money, he reconnects with some old classmates including his former sweetheart, Yoo-jin. Dong-jo is all smiles during his reunion until Ki-jung appears, and upon seeing him, painful memories flood Dong-jo’s mind. Not only was Ki-jung the cause of Dong-jo’s greatest childhood trauma, but he is also the biggest inspiration behind his new novel. Fate has apparently decided that now is the time for Dong-jo to fully confront his dark past.

The Hunt

When raw gold is discovered deep in the woods, a group of gold hunters arrive to mine it. Several neighbors in the area witness the hunters by chance and find themselves in danger. Among the witnesses, hunter Ki-sung risks his life to protect the other witnesses and engages the gold hunters in a cat-and-mouse game of death.

Rampant

Ancient Korea, 17th century. While the paranoid King Lee Jo of Joseon, vassal of the Qing dynasty, feels surrounded by conspirators and rebels, a dark evil emerges from the bowels of a merchant ship and the exiled Prince Lee Cheung returns to the royal court, ignoring that he will have to lead the few capable of defeating the ambitious humans and the bloody monsters who threaten to destroy the kingdom.

Extreme Job

A drug squad attempts to take down a criminal organization and they must go undercover to do so, so they begin working at a chicken restaurant, that becomes famous for its delicious chicken. Due to the unexpected popularity, the detectives find themselves in a situation they never expected.

Immaturity

Jin-cheol wakes up in the morning to find a stranger in bed with him. To make matters worse, she is in high school! What will happen to the two? Will they fall in love?

Intruder

Seo-jin is a widower still grieving his wife's death. Then he receives the news that his long-lost younger sister, Yoo-jin, who went missing 25 years ago, has turned up. Unlike the rest of his family, who welcome her into their arms, Seo-jin feels that Yoo-jin is a stranger.

Dream

With hard work and dedication on lock, a group of homeless men trains to compete in a global tournament — despite a cranky coach.

The Liar

Ayoung is a young woman living a less-than-humble life working as an assistant at a dermatology clinic. Although Ayoung barely makes ends meet on a miserable salary earned by popping pimples, she has a secret.

Young Adult Matters

Se-jin, a high school student, becomes pregnant and gets ostracized by her family and school. While wandering the streets, she meets Joo-yeong, an experienced runaway, and tries to get an abortion with Joo-yeong's help.

Start-Up

Two boys are becoming real adults during a turbulent time as they experience a world that doesn't go their way.

Godsend

A woman who desperately wants a baby asks a girl who is considering abortion to give her the baby instead. The two arrive at an isolated vacation home to spend time in seclusion until the girl gives birth to a baby, but they unexpectedly encounter a mysterious young painter and some criminal hunters.

The Noisy Mansion

Nothing is more frightening, as the narrator points out, than a ‘time-rich nosy person’. Exhibit A is Ahn Geo-ul, who commits herself to social justice causes with terrifying tenacity. After temporarily renting a unit in the Baek-sae Apartment building, she discovers that a loud, hard to locate banging noise occurs from 4am every night, making the residents’ lives an insomniac hell – and so she determines to engage in her own disruption and to find the culprit of this acoustic assault, simultaneously eliminating her eccentric neighbours as suspects, and recruiting them to her cause.

Behind the Play

Kyung-whan, who's been with the same play team for 15 years, is out to have a get together after the play again tonight. Drinking brings the joy out of everyone but Kyung-whan's wallet is as light as a feather as he's been acting for a long time. However, his pride on acting and the stage is at its highest. Maybe too much. Kyung-whan feels upbeat with all the sweet talk from other members of the crew. And, there he goes again with the preach on acting with the little knowledge he has. While the preach is going on, one of the members' phone rings. It's an ex-member of the crew but now a big time star Nam-hee. Kyung-whan feels uncomfortable after finding out Nam-hee's about to join. He can't say no to it since everybody's excited about Nam-hee's visit and he doesn't want to be the person to ruin it. Kyung-whan gets demoted from the main role to a supporting role with the sudden visit from Nam-hee.

A Good Day

Even though Migeum and Jeong-ah have been friends for many years, they always engage in the battle of nerves. The two head to Seoul together to meet their daughters but face an unexpected event during their journey.

Counting the Stars at Night

After working as a guide in Vietnam, Seok marries a Vietnamese woman and returns with her son to his hometown in Busan for the first time in a long while. The buried past he has tried to forget resurfaces when he meets his older brother.