Timetable
Films
The shadows of the past linger in the summer where children were ※Jeonbuk Independent Film Association’s recommended selection
Ki-jun's family moves to a village in the countryside where a new town development plan is in place. While completing the transfer procedures at his new school, Ki-jun's sneakers go missing.
The suspected shoe thieves are brothers from a well-known broken family in the neighborhood. Ki-jun's family also suspects them but decides to let it go, thinking it's just a pair of shoes.
Director
JANG Byungki
Korea
2024
115min
Color
Fiction
12
Film, the self-portrait drawn by light ※Jeonju Public Media Center’s recommended selection
In May 1980, the new military dictatorship in South Korea violently suppressed the pro-democracy protests in Gwangju. The crackdown led to a ten-day massacre in which thousands were killed and wounded. The massacre was kept secret in South Korea for decades and has still not been fully investigated.
The year is 1984 in Gwangju, and the enthusiasm for the professional baseball league is heating up. Eunju, a teenage girl, wants to go to a high school baseball game where the boy she has a crush on will be playing.
Director
LEE Yida
Korea
2024
27min
Color
Fiction
All
‘Yoo-Young’ begins to work with a medium format film camera that she got from her darkroom class professor.
Director
KU Bom
Korea
2024
17min
Color
Fiction
All
A secluded house in the countryside, Seori feels cold even in the middle of summer.
Late at night, when the water in her house is cut off, she goes to a neighbor's house with her young son to borrow water.
Director
KIM Taehwi
Korea
2024
25min
Color
Fiction
12
The power of invisible language ※ Film Culture Development Commission’s recommended selection
A middle-aged man recalls memories with his ex-girlfriend on the road home and finally reaches where she used to live.
Director
YOO Jitae
Korea
2007
25min
Color/B&W
Fiction
12
Sujin, class president, accidentally hurts deaf classmate Juyeon. Sujin visits Juyeon at home with her friends to apologize, but Juyeon refuses to accept her apology and Sujin’s friends turn out to be of no help, either.
Director
OH Jaewook
Korea
2024
20min
Color
Fiction
All
Soohyun’s mother, Misuk, is running a tangerine orchard with her mother-in-law. Soohyun hates going to Jeju, and does not understand why her mother is living there running a farm, which she has never done before. So this year, she really wants to know the reason.
Director
KIM Sora
Korea
2024
30min
Color
Fiction
All
About attitude of listening
※Noname cinema coop.’s recommended selection
In my high school senior year, I begin filming me and my friends as we study hard to get into a good university. As time goes by I become a university student, but still feel the same anxiety I felt as a high school student. One day, I get a call from my high school friend saying she’s not doing well.
Director
HONG Daye
Korea
2022
80min
Color
Documentary
12
Film that can sink into old memories
※Cinemong’s recommended selection
“Mimang” 迷妄 Wandering, unable to make sense from ignorance.
A man gets off at the wrong bus stop and encounters a woman from his past.
“Mimang” 未忘 Unable to forget what one wants to forget.
The woman walks down the same streets she walked before with a different man.
“Mimang” 彌望 Searching far and wide.
They are reunited yet again at a friend’s funeral and reflect on their shared past.
Director
KIM Taeyang
Korea
2023
93min
Color
Fiction
12
Passion for cinema ※Culture Contents Institute Cinesup’s recommended selection
Ji-seok is a director. He has been struggling because of the money needed to produce films. Song PD, Ji-seok's colleague, introduces him to an actress, Hong Mi-ran. Hong, now with terminal disease, agrees to pay for all the production costs under the condition that she must be the lead. The lifetime project of the troubled souls—would this make it through to the end?
Director
JUNG Hyung-suk
Korea
2024
116min
Color
Fiction
12
Things cannot be told ※Mediacommunity Awesome’s recommended selection
Haneul's mom runs a children's after-school center. Middle school students from a nearby orphanage come to Haneul's house to study every evening. One day, Haneul loses his glasses at home. While looking for the glasses, he catches Yejun and Gunwoo smoking, which makes him suspicious of them.
Director
SHIM Gyuwon
Korea
2024
25min
Color
Fiction
All
Hansel: Two School Skirts
Shortly before the start of music class, where the teacher forces the students to sing as a punishment, Hansel, a high school student, realizes that she has forgotten to bring her recorder. For Hansel, the idea of singing in front of her classmates is worse than death, so she rushes home to get her recorder. But due to her urinary incontinence, she starts peeing little by little on the way. A short film by LIM Ji-sun, whose film KIM MIN-YOUNG OF THE REPORT CARD was invited to the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Director
LIM Jisun
Korea
2024
29min
Color
Fiction
All
Middle schooler Sung-mi works as a mainstream actress but takes part in a short film for some extra cash to buy an iPad.
But one day, when the director drops out due to an injury while rehearsing, she decides to take over as the director of a short film.
Director
HWANG Jaefeel, KIM HyoJun
Korea
2024
35min
Color/B&W
Fiction
12
Special Screening: WITHBOM(Barrier-free) version
The story of a girl who was born in Jindo and moved to Gwangju to study abroad, the story of Gwangju 5.18 as an adult, and the story of a mother who became a disabled person in her old age.
* Sign language video and audio description are provided.
Director
OH Jaehyeong, LIM Younghee
Korea
2022
30min
Color
Documentary, Animation
12
A man and a dog walk to the tip of the mountain every evening. There is a light that shines at sunset. They are looking for it, but the sun has set, and the forest is deep.
* Sign language video and audio description are provided.
Director
PARK Syeyoung
Korea
2024
18min
Color/B&W
Fiction
All
Youngju lost her friend in the 'Seoul Halloween crowd crush' in 2022.
After the tragedy, she seeks to heal from the pain of her loss by returning to her everyday routine.
* Sign language video and audio description are provided.
Director
GONG Seonjeong
Korea
2024
26min
Color
Fiction
All
Special Screening: 25th JEONJU IFF’s Official Award Winners
Three retired K-pop idols take a trip to Jeju Island. Leaving behind their failed careers and unspoken wounds, they seek compensation for their lost school days. However, on the first day of the trip, Sarang loses her luggage and gets caught up in an unwanted quarrel. Facing the soar memories from the past, friends slowly begin to move forward.
Director
NAMKOONG Sun
Korea
2024
99min
Color
Fiction
12
A silver apricot holds its own scent as it ripens.
Jung-seo, who is planning on getting married, wins an apartment subscription, which is almost like winning a lottery. Not being able to pay the deposit, she makes a begrudging visit to her father for money, who had divorced her mother without paying any alimony. But when she meets his new family, everything gets messed up due to different desires of each of them. In the unexpected chaos, Jung-seo gradually faces what they really want, and most importantly, what she wants deep inside herself.
Director
JANG Man-min
Korea
2024
122min
Color
Fiction
12
Hansel: Two School Skirts
Shortly before the start of music class, where the teacher forces the students to sing as a punishment, Hansel, a high school student, realizes that she has forgotten to bring her recorder. For Hansel, the idea of singing in front of her classmates is worse than death, so she rushes home to get her recorder. But due to her urinary incontinence, she starts peeing little by little on the way. A short film by LIM Ji-sun, whose film KIM MIN-YOUNG OF THE REPORT CARD was invited to the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Director
LIM Jisun
Korea
2024
29min
Color
Fiction
All
A man and a dog walk to the tip of the mountain every evening. There is a light that shines at sunset. They are looking for it, but the sun has set, and the forest is deep.
Director
PARK Syeyoung
Korea
2024
18min
Color/B&W
Fiction
All
Youngju lost her friend in the 'Seoul Halloween crowd crush' in 2022.
After the tragedy, she seeks to heal from the pain of her loss by returning to her everyday routine.
Director
GONG Seonjeong
Korea
2024
26min
Color
Fiction
All
Venues ※When you click on the image, it will link to a map (Google Maps).
Address
1 Pungnammun 3-gil, Wansan-gu, Jeonju-si
Address
San 7-2 Gyo-dong, Wansan-gu, Jeonju-si
Address
1357-7 Manseong-dong, Deokjin-gu, Jeonju-si
Address
148 Hongsan-ro, Wansan-gu, Jeonju-si
Organizations in collaboration
With a name that combines the words Docking and Cinematheque, Dockingtheque is a cultural content production cooperative founded by young filmmakers in Jeonju who were met by fate.
Noname cinema coop. is a cooperative and a preliminary social enterprise established by citizens to drive and promote cultural accessibility and involvement in the region. Focused on Jeonju and Jeonbuk-do, the community cinema organizes diverse film and cultural activities for the locals.
Culture Contents Institute Cinesup
A Cultural Contents Institute Cinesup is a compound word of “cinema” and “forest”, as an organization dedicated to screening, production, education, and research of cultural content centered films. They continuously discover short films and offers screening opportunities through the JEONJU Family Film Festival and the JEONJU International Short Film Festival. Cinesup collaborates with various organizations on content production, conducts cultural content research to develop and increase the value of local culture, and works to establish a future-oriented art ecosystem, also promoting local residents to enjoy culture and arts.
As Jeonbuk-do’s sole organizer of a nationwide youth film festival, Mediacommunity Awesome supports producing and consuming media content and film works to establish an ecosystem with creative freedom. It promotes communication between classes and generations and supports the fostering of democratic citizens by providing research and education on various media.
Cinemong is a club for audiences which provides a communal space where one can make their daily lives happier through film.
Film Culture Development Commission
Film Culture Development Commission strives to improve the quality of film and audiovisual culture in Jeonbuk-do through production, education, and culture. It also contributes to the development of the film and video industry and its culture in the region.
Jeonbuk Independent Film Association
Jeonbuk Independent Film Association was founded to establish a new foundation for local film culture by producing and screening independent films. By continuously communicating and collaborating with independent film associations and film festivals in other regions, the association strives to expand its communication while providing film education, production support, and screening of independent films. In addition, the association continuously seeks to establish discourses on local film culture.
Jeonju Public Media Center
Jeonju Public Media Center is a 21st-century alternative public cultural facility that allows easy access to anyone who longs to learn, produce, or communicate through media. The center provides year-round video educational courses categorized by level of difficulty, target group, and region. In addition, the center provides various filming equipment to support citizens in video production.
