Sun-hwa is a location manager in Busan who finds shooting spots for films. She’s always loved her work and her city. One day, she joins a new project out of the blue. But as soon as she walks into the door, she recognizes the director at once. It’s Do-young, her ex-boyfriend who left her and went to Seoul to fulfill his dream. They were lovers in the past but now Sun-hwa has to face him as a business partner. To make things worse, all he says is ‘NO’.
Jinju, a film director, is a week away from filming her movie. However, she feels helpless with the most important filming location, the café, suddenly under construction. Fortunately, a friend introduces her to a 50 year old traditional café called “Samgakji coffee shop” located in Kyeongnam Jinju. She likes the “Samgakji coffee shop”…but there is a twist; the place is scheduled to be demolished.
Su-min and Jin-ho are siblings living together. Their parents declare to them that they will divorce soon. They say that it is not decided yet how the four members of the family live apart, and ask them to wait for about 2 weeks. Su-min spends every day worrying about which parents she's going to live with and whether she will live apart from Jin-ho. One day, her parents offer her a suggestion.
Portrait of Mrs. B., a tough charismatic North Korean woman who smuggles between North Korea, China and South Korea. With the money she gets, she plans to reunite with her two North Korean sons after years of separation.
One cold winter, Hee-tae is diagnosed as terminally ill. He receives a letter from his ex-wife who divorced him and left 10 years ago. She wants their son, who Hee-tae never saw, Min-sang's name to be registered under Hee-tae's family registry for a stable life.
A woman asks her mother to leave for the sake of her and her brother’s happy life. But her brother does not open his mind to her. Although she gets closer to her co-workers at her new workplace, she has no choice but to become a disrupter of them. Without hope, her brother commits suicide in front of her. Her family members and colleagues have left her. Left alone, she dreams of life again.
‘Chanel’ in Myeong-dong in the 1970s was the secret hideout for Butches and Femmes. In 1996, young lesbians opened Korea’s first lesbian bar, Lesbos. In the early 2000s, queer teens looking for a community gathered in a small park in Sinchon. Myung-woo, who ran ‘Lesbos’ nearby, was still guarding the place 20 years later. As the coronavirus crisis hit, the bar has lost its customers. Will she able to protect the place this time?
Still and All is a story about the souls living beneath the Yeongdo Bridge in Busan. Yeongdo and its bridge offer a historical space with lingering traces from the Japanese colonial era to the Korean War. The people under Yeongdo Bridge, reconstructed in 2013 after 47 years, are driven to move when the vicinity around it is designated a Special Tourist Zone.
Kim, a poet, feels rejected and neglected in her life. One day her husband disappears and she finds a dog abandoned in the reservoir. Taking care of the dog, she strives for a living, but life distresses her even more.
