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Indieground, the Korean Film Council's distribution platform for independent cinema, will stream 92 curated independent films free to audiences from February 6-25 in its largest online showcase to date. The 2025 Independent Film Library Special Week features award-winners from Busan and Cannes alongside emerging voices across fiction, documentary, animation, and experimental cinema.

The 20-day event divides into two parts: Part 1 (February 6-15) and Part 2 (February 16-25), with 46 films available in each window. The lineup comprises 23 features and 69 shorts spanning fiction (63 films), documentary (20), animation (6), and experimental work (3), all accessible free to registered Indieground members at www.indieground.kr.

Festival standouts anchor the program. Lee Ran-hee's Third Year, Second Semester arrives with four wins from the 29th Busan International Film Festival and three from the 50th Seoul Independent Film Festival. Park Min-soo and Ahn Kun-hyung's documentary The Shift and the Day brings its Busan Best Documentary prize, while Yang Ju-yeon's Yangyang and Kim Min-ha's Amoeba Girls and School Ghost Stories: Foundation Day extend their theatrical runs into digital exhibition.

International recognition appears throughout. Jung Yu-mi's animated short The Glasses screened at the 78th Cannes Film Festival's Critics' Week, while Kim So-yeon's One Season of Rotary won the Blue Dragon Film Awards' short film prize. The selection spans Kim Sun-bin's comedy World Premiere, featuring actor Moon Sang-hoon, to Hong Sun-hye's queer coming-of-age piece Sayonara, I Love You, Sayonara.

Documentary works addressing Korean historical memory include Cho Se-young's K-Number on transnational adoption, Ji Hye-won's Voices centering female perspectives on the Jeju April 3rd Uprising, and Lee I-da's D-Day, Friday tracing 1984 Gwangju.

The Independent Film Library represents KOFIC's initiative to stabilize exhibition infrastructure for Korean independent cinema as theatrical options constrict. Last year's open call received record submissions, validating demand for alternative distribution channels.

Following the Special Week, Indieground will launch curated thematic screenings from March, cycling library titles through keyword-based programming. The February showcase includes online engagement events for participating audiences.