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

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

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

The story of a woman’s changing life.

The Popstar Water Deer and I

Korea | 2024 | 17 min
Directed by
LEE Sasha

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

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

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