OSAKA Cinemascape 2025
Program D
Korean Independent Animation Festival
My Love (5 films)
3:00 pm, October 15 (Saturday)
My Hero (5 films)
1:00 pm, November 16 (Sunday)
Venue: Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka 1F Hall
Talks
After the Program D screenings on November 15 & 16
Choi Yujin (Chair person, Seoul Indie-AniFest)
Miyake Atsuko (Animator, Subtitler)
Moderator: Ogawa Izumi (Animation creator, Korean Independent Animation Festival Osaka)
Free Admission (A ticket is required to watch the screening)
My Love

JOY OF LIFE
생의 기쁨 삶의 기쁨]
Korea | 2024 | 10 min
Directed by SONG Yungsung
Japan Premiere
Mystery, dangerous, hope and anxiety, battles. The tiny little light is coming to us from beyond the darkness. It is a miracle. It is a big message. We are shining ourselves receiving light. We are the human, we are the nature.

My Mother’s Story
[내 어머니 이야기]
Korea | 2023 | 15 min
Directed by KIM Soyoung, JANG Minhee
“Notsae” shares childhood stories with her daughter “Eunsung”. She reminisces about her first love who was drafted into the military, the day electricity first arrived in the village, and her dearly missed mother. As she unfolds memories, Notsae’s longing for the irrevocable hometown deepens. Eunsung decides to illustrate her mother’s life through a comic.

The Tree’s Home
[나무의 집]
Korea | 2023 | 12 min
Directed by KIM Hyemi
Japan Premiere
The story of a woman’s changing life.

The Popstar Water Deer and I
Korea | 2024 | 17 min
Directed by
LEE Sasha
Japan Premiere
A lonely young programmer, Vega, falls in love with a beautiful popstar water deer. They sing a song of happiness together in fantasy, while the pigeons constantly drag them back into the real world.

New World Tour
[뉴-월드 관광]
Korea | 2024 | 12 min
Directed by LEE Moonjoo
Japan Premiere
In one of my most cherished childhood memories, my younger self embarks on a journey to meet my young parents.
My Hero

Number 32. Giant Fish
[32번 대왕잉어]
Korea | 2024 | 10 min
Directed by SI Seunghyun
During Lunch break on an elementary school field day, Minsu wins a Giant fish-shaped candy(Dalgona) from a lucky draw. Even though his friends wanted a bite, Minsu decided to eat candy all by himself. Then, he got eaten by a Giant fish that suddenly appeared from the air. Discharged through Giant fish’s poop hole, Minsu faces an eccentric sight as nutrients of his body are all squeezed out.

Entity
[엔터티]
Korea | 2024 | 17 min
Directed by CHUNG Huibin
After making eye contact with the murderer next door, Kim Young challenges soceital taboos to survive.

REDMAN
Korea | 2024 | 14 min
Directed by KIM Sungjae
After the heroic organization “Mega Five,” which once saved the world, disbands, Red continues his role as a “symbol of peace” and pursues justice. However, after the tragic death of a close colleague, Red finds himself torn between his ideals and personal desires.

Mother’s House
[엄마의 집]
Korea | 2024 | 12 min
Directed by KIM Chang soo
Japan Premiere
Young-soo has a strange encounter on the way back from the sanatorium where he left his mother.

Echo
[메아리]
Korea | 2022 | 17 min
Directed by KIM Sangjoon
Echo is a story about young brothers, living in an apartment in a newly developed city near Seoul, Korea in the 90’s. The brothers’ every morning starts to get disrupted by a strange man across the apartment yelling “yaho”. They start their own little investigation to find out the motifs of the man, after hearing the rumor that this strange man is a cannibal.
In cooperation with

Korean Independent Animation Filmmakers Association
Programs
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Program A | OSAKA Cinemascape 2025
Sojourn to Shangri-la | On a Boat | Mountain Cat
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Program B | OSAKA Cinemascape 2025
CYCLE-CYCLE | 3 Year 3 Month Retreat | My Sister
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Program C | OSAKA Cinemascape 2025
A Night at the Rest Area | Swallow Flying to the South | We’ll Never Get Lost Together Again
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Program D | OSAKA Cinemascape 2025
Korean Independent Animation Festival – My Love (5 films) & My Hero (5 films)
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Program E | OSAKA Cinemascape 2025
Obedience [是日訪古]
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Program F | OSAKA Cinemascape 2025
Dust to Dust [第八個嫌疑人]
