Short films - Korea

Eraser Wrestling (dir.: Min Dong-hyun, 1999)
Eraser Wrestling is a children‘s game played on a desk or a flat surface with erasers. The winner of the game gets to keep the other‘s eraser.

For the Peace of All Mankind (dir.: Lee Seok-hoon, 1999)
In the Vietnam jungle in 1969, a Korean soldier encounters a Vietcong girl. She aims at him with her gun, but why does he smile in such an intense situation?

Lachrymal (dir.: Lim Chang-jae, 1998)
An unexpected impregnated girl falls into a weird imagination. There the world comes absurd ad fearful to her, not having any hope no anyone to lean on.

The Goggles (dir.: Lee Soo-youn, 2000)
The Goggles tells a story of Ji-young and her attempts to discover purpose. Through her discovery of parallels between swimming and her life and the dynamic relationship with her swimming coach, she can realize the complexities of life.

Uncle „Bar“ at Barbershop (dir.: Kwon Jong-kwan, 2000)
At a small barbershop on the outskirts of Seoul in the early eighties, when sexual prejudices and violence were prevalent, there is a trim, middle-aged barber greeting the customers in a friendly manner. But a little joke with some sexual innuendo triggers a fist-fight.