We continue with our list of short films you shouldn’t miss at the Jeonju International Film Festival, which will take place from April 29 until May 8, 2026, in Jeonju, South Korea.

To see the first part of this article please go HERE

Knock Back by Chung Chanhee Noah – South Korea, Switzerland | 2025 – 23 minutes | World Premiere
Section: Korean Competition for Shorts

Slip stitch, skip stitch, single stitch, and yarn over. Roommates in Switzerland for two years, Yoonsuk and Sunwoo spend Sunwoo’s final winter knitting together. Leaving the last stitch unfinished, Yoonsuk at last begins her own “knock back.” (JeonjuIFF 2026)

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Memil by Kim Jungmin – South Korea | 2026 – 33 minutes | World Premiere
Section: Korean Competition for Shorts

Ian, who hates eating memil as a holiday food on Chuseok, meets a goblin by chance and exchanges memil for the goblin’s fruit. (JeonjuIFF 2026)

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Metropolitan Ride by Kim Jungyoung – Korea | 2026 – 30 minutes | World Premiere
Section: Korean Competition for Shorts

Soobin finally lands a job! With a fluttering heart, she steps into the elevator on her first day. However, countless obstacles still lie between her and her destination: the 7,891st floor. This handmade sci-fi film, created with quiet persistence using 100% analog methods, was made over the past two years, coinciding with the rise of AI as it began to threaten art. (JeonjuIFF 2026)

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Missed Call by Son Yeong – South Korea | 2025 – 24 minutes | World Premiere
Section: Korean Competition for Shorts

I work at a call center making a graduation documentary. One ear to the phone, straining toward the past, the future, anywhere but here—calls find me: their voices, silences, sighs—worthless, discarded—passing through me into the partition as faint, indelible stains. Messages accumulate in a voicemail left unopened. (JeonjuIFF 2026)

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Sales Log by Kang Mina – South Korea | 2026 – 25 minutes | World Premiere
Section: Korean Competition for Shorts

Do-eun, a door-to-door saleswoman in her thirties, visits the home of a former classmate with whom she has little to no rapport, simply to make up for her unsatisfactory sales performance. A few days later, the classmate’s mother, Su-jung, comes looking for her. (JeonjuIFF 2026)

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Scorched Stone, Rolling by Kim Seojin, Kim Jihee – South Korea | 2025 – 12 minutes | World Premiere
Section: Korean Competition for Shorts

After a huge fire has raged, the scorched stone left there is suddenly bewildered by the unfamiliar landscape of the village, and the scorched stone that has been wandering around begins to look around the village. (JeonjuIFF 2026)

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The Way We Lean by Yang Heejin – South Korea | 2025 – 26 minutes | World Premiere
Section: Korean Competition for Shorts

Heejin tries to restore old footage of her mother. With her father, she sells her mother’s books and transplants a tree. Amid their quiet, persistent labor, life goes on. (JeonjuIFF 2026)

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Touch, Took by Tae Jiwon – South Korea | 2026 – 25 minutes | World Premiere
Section: Korean Competition for Shorts

Jae-eun quits school and now works at a driving school. She wants to get close to Dong-hyuk, a high school student learning to drive. But he still seems attached to his ex-girlfriend, who goes to group therapy. (JeonjuIFF 2026)

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Walking in a Spiral by Lee Soeun – South Korea | 2026 – 17 minutes | World Premiere
Section: Korean Cinema

In a small town, Moon-young learns that a giant sacred tree, filled with memories of her longtime friend Yeonju, whom she lost on her birthday a year ago, is about to be cut down. (JeonjuIFF 2026)

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Welcome to Set by Cyan Bae – Netherlands, South Korea | 2026 – 15 minutes | Asian Premiere
Section: Korean Competition for Shorts

Congratulations! You’ve been selected as a validity rater for the datasets behind emotional AI technologies. Reenacting laboratory data collection processes, Welcome to Set invites you behind the scenes of machine learning. This experimental documentary explores the body politics of emotion and suspicion within algorithmic security practices. (JeonjuIFF 2026)

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