KOCCA ON SCREEN
29 - 30 April 2026
Cinema Visionario
via Asquini 33, Udine
K for Korea, K for KOCCA: among this year’s brand-new highlights, the partnership between the Udine festival and the South Korean government agency certainly stands out. A true creative hub—as reflected in the name behind the acronym (Korea Creative Content Agency)—it operates on the front lines of developing, promoting, and distributing a wide range of audiovisual content.
On April 29 and 30, Udine will host the special project “KOCCA on Screen”: two days dedicated to documentaries (4 titles) and television series (3 series). The headquarters will be at Cinema Visionario (Via Asquini 33, Udine). Italy will have the chance to explore new Korean productions up close, while Korea will be able to reflect in real time on feedback from Italian audiences. At the Visionario, both general viewers and industry professionals holding one of the festival badges will have free access. English subtitles only.
HOW TO ACCESS
Access to screenings in the “KOCCA on Screen” program is granted exclusively to those holding a Festival or Focus Asia accreditation.
PROGRAM
29 APRIL WEDNESDAY
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H 10:00
intro by the director and the main actor YOO Yeon-seok
PHANTOM LAWYER
Company MONGJAKSO
Fantasy, Human Drama, Comedy
Writers: KIM Gayoung , KANG Cheol-gyu
Director: SHIN Joong-hoon
Producers: HONG Seong-chang, YOO Byung-sool
Cast: YOO Yeon-seok, Esom, KIM Kyung-nam
DCP, English subtitles, 66’
Followed by Q&A
Synopsis
Shin Yirang had dreamed of becoming a lawyer since childhood, driven less by ideals of justice than by a desire to give his family a better life. However, because his father died under the stigma of being a corrupt prosecutor, no law firm would hire him. In the end, he opens his own small office. But the place once belonged to a shaman who summoned spirits, and there Yirang begins encountering wandering ghosts who have lost their memories.
The ghosts want to know who they were and why they died, but the shaman who could have helped them is long gone. Though Yirang initially finds them annoying, he cannot ignore their tragic stories. Realizing that knowing a ghost’s name and age can reveal their identity, he begins helping them uncover their past and resolve the grudges that bind them to this world. In the process, he experiences “possession,” where ghosts temporarily inhabit his body, granting him different abilities that help him solve cases.
Meanwhile, Han Nahyun, a cold and undefeated lawyer with a 100% win rate, has been living in place of her older sister ever since her sister died years ago. When she meets Yirang, she initially suspects him of being a fraud. However, after encountering the spirit of her deceased sister, she learns the truth and eventually joins Yirang in helping restless spirits find peace.
Then Yirang discovers that his father’s death—long believed to have been caused by a drug overdose twenty years earlier—was actually a murder. With most of the evidence long gone, he begins a difficult fight to prove his father’s innocence.
29 APRIL WEDNESDAY
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H 14:00
THE SENT: A PASTOR, A MURDERER
Company STUDIO GLOWGRIM
Documentary
Writer: CHOI Hye-won
Directors: Daeil SONG, JUNG Jih-wan
Producer: Daeil SONG
Cast: SONG Jung-geun
DCP , English subtitles, 90’
Followed by Q&A
Logline
A documentary following Jeong-geun, a pastor and former perpetrator of civilian massacres during the Vietnam War, as he confronts a lifetime of buried guilt and sets out to confess the truth before time runs out.
Synopsis
For forty years, Jeong-geun has lived as a devoted pastor. But long before that, he was a man who killed innocent people. His former comrades still call those killings acts of patriotism, yet he knows they were part of a horrific massacre.
The setting was the Vietnam War, which South Korea entered in 1965. The war claimed countless lives, and not all of them were soldiers. Deep in the jungle, Korean troops repeatedly massacred civilians. Jeong-geun was one of the perpetrators. Now, before age and time further erode his memory, he has made a decision: to speak the truth. Before his fading recollections are irreversibly altered, he sets out to record what happened and confess to the world what he once took part in.
A man who has lived as a soldier, a killer, and a pastor—why did he take part in the slaughter of innocent people? Why does he choose to speak now, after a lifetime of silence? And will he be able to hold on to the truth until the very end?
29 APRIL WEDNESDAY
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H 15:50
THE SILICON VALLEY BUTCHERS
Company IMTV
Documentary
Writer: MOON Eun-joo
Director: SUNG Hye-jung
Producer: SUNGHye-jung
Cast: LEE Hanboreum, Josh Tetrick
DCP, English subtitles, 80’
Logline
‘Cultivated meat’ Humanity’s desire for meat has given birth to an entirely new kind of flesh. Is this new form of life(?) a symbol of innovation or “Frankenstein food”? What has meat meant to humankind?
30 APRIL THURSDAY
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H 10:00
introduction by the director
SNOW FACE
Company: Contents Namu Co., Ltd.
Documentary
Writer: KANG Ho-jun
Director: KANG Ho-jun
Producer: PARK Mik-yung
Cast: PARK Chung-hun
DCP , English subtitles, 47’
Followed by Q&A
Logline
He lost his fingers. He defied death. He returned to the wall.
Eighteen years after a miraculous survival on Cholatse, veteran climber Park Jeong-heon confronts his deepest trauma and aging body to redefine the "end" of life through one final, soul-searching ascent.
Synopsis
"Leave me behind, brother." The junior cried in despair. The senior pulled him up. The snow began to fall. In the winter of 2005, the triumph of conquering the North Wall of Cholatse turned into a nightmare in an instant. To save his partner Choi Kang-sik from a deep crevasse, Park Jeong-heon pulled the rope despite his shattered ribs. Over the next six days, they crawled through the "Death Zone" with rotting limbs from severe frostbite, refusing to let go of each other until they miraculously touched solid ground again.
Retirement age has arrived. The body is no longer in its prime. Yet the spirit remains unyielding. Eighteen years later in 2023, Park Jeong-heon returns to the shadow of Cholatse. Haunted by the question, "Is the real end simply hanging onto life without a challenge?" he steps back onto the icy face that took his fingers but forged his soul, seeking a final reconciliation with the mountain.
The camera reflects the past. The present climbs the wall. Two eras become one. By interweaving the harrowing survival footage of 2005 with the meditative expedition of 2023, "Snow Face" follows a veteran alpinist facing his deepest trauma head-on. This documentary is a profound meditation on brotherhood, the weight of memory, and the indomitable human will that dares to define its own "end".
30 APRIL THURSDAY
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H 11:05
BLOODY FLOWER
Company: EO CONTENT GROUP. INC
Mystery Thriller
Writer: KO Joon-seok
Director:Yun-sun HAN
Producer: OH Eun-young
Cast: UN Ryeo, SUNG Dong-il , KEUM Sae-rok
DCP, English subtitles, 60’
Logline
A man who was a suspect in a missing persons case is caught, and his shocking crime of killing 17 people surfaces. The people he killed were all criminals, and by killing them, he became a savior who could cure all the diseases of the world. Is he a murderer? Or a savior?
Synopsis
The lawyer who has to turn a murderer into a savior to save his sick daughter, the prosecutor who has to give the murderer the punishment he deserves without being swayed by public opinion to uphold social and legal justice, the savior who has the power to save everyone in the world, but who kills people in the most heinous ways. The unstoppable confrontation between these three people begins.
30 APRIL THURSDAY
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H 14:00
4KIMS
Company:ADHESIVE
Writers: KANG Hae-ji , LEE Yong-seuk
Director: LEE Yong-seuk
Producer: LEE Jung-hoon
Cast: Nosik PARK, Youngki JUNG, Choi Yong-joon KIM, JIN Juh-yung
DCP , English subtitles, 122’
Awards & Remarks, Official Selection – Berlin Indie Film Festival (2026)
Followed by Q&A
Logline
4Kims follows four Korean men living in the United States whose lives become unexpectedly intertwined when they are drawn into a mysterious crime.
Synopsis
KIM Young-Chul runs a small liquor store on the outskirts of an American city. Before he dies, he dreams of returning to his hometown in Korea, but the money he has saved over a lifetime is not enough to buy a home in Seoul. Worse, he has lost contact with his son, Steve Kim. One day, Kim Chul-Gi, a church butler, approaches him. An undocumented immigrant, Chul-Gi secretly drives an illegal call taxi and takes on shady jobs for wealthy international students. Behind the scenes, he is planning a fraud involving stolen identities of Korean Americans and foreign students. Meanwhile, Kim Sun-Ho, who came to the United States to obtain a degree and permanent residency, crosses paths with Steve Kim, Young-Chul’s estranged son. Four men become entangled like a Möbius strip, each chasing a different version of the same promise. What does the “American Dream” truly mean for those who live outside it?
30 APRIL THURSDAY
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H 16:20
THE CORAL TRIANGLE: A WORLD OF ODDITIES
Company:DMZ Wild
Marine Nature Documentary
Writer:
Directors: LIM Wan-ho, YUK Seong-woo
Producer: LEE Mi-jin
Cast: KIM Dong-sik
DCP, English subtitles, 50’
Followed by Q&A
Logline
It captures the bizarre camouflage, fierce survival of extraordinary sea creatures, and the urgent climate crisis facing the "Amazon of the Sea."
Synopsis
The Coral Triangle, known as the "Amazon of the Sea," boasts the highest marine biodiversity on Earth. Armed with an 8K camera, 30-year veteran underwater cinematographer Kim Dong-sik returns to this marine sanctuary after 20 years. Deep within the black sands of the Lembeh Strait, he encounters a world of oddities: the mimic octopus capable of 40 different disguises, the frogfish with a built-in fishing rod, and the highly venomous blue-ringed octopus.
These bizarre creatures employ extraordinary camouflage and seductive tactics to survive in a ruthless environment.
However, this beautiful underwater paradise is facing a severe crisis. Rising sea temperatures have triggered devastating coral bleaching, and ocean pollution is rapidly destroying the foundation of marine life.
Featuring spectacular cinematography, the film not only reveals the fierce and mesmerizing survival strategies of unique marine life but also delivers an urgent plea to humanity to protect and restore this fragile ecosystem before it is too late.