Shin Su-won

Director

January 1, 1967 (59 years)

Seoul, South Korea

Biography

Born in 1967, SHIN Suwon studied script writing at the Korea National University of Arts. She has gained international acclaim through short CIRCLE LINE (Canal+ Prize at Cannes Critic's Week) and second feature PLUTO (Special Mention at Generation 14 plus of 2014 Berlin Int'l Film Festival).

Filmography

4.0

Drama Stage

South Korean anthology series featuring one-act dramas selected from the O'PEN Drama Storyteller Exhibition.

5.9

Madonna

A hospital caregiver tries to stop an unidentified female ER patient, in a brain dead state and pregnant, from becoming a heart donor for a VIP patient.

6.8

Hommage

A struggling filmmaker finds unexpected solidarity and validation when she takes on the job of restoring a classic 1960s film directed by the first known female South Korean director.

6.0

Modern Family

Under the name of family, we complete our own modernity. 4 talented directors unfold 4 different portraits about family, the most heart-warming, yet the most heart-aching word in the Modern era.

5.7

Light for the Youth

A young man works at the bond collection call center. He is polite, pure and sincere at a glance. On the other hand, the director of the center is not called to the head office, so she is antsy every day. And she has a daughter who is having a hard time preparing for a job.

7.0

Pluto

Joon is arrested for the murder of the top student at his prestigious school. When he is released, Joon holds students accusing him of the crime in a room and forces them to reveal their dark secrets.

6.2

Glass Garden

Despite her disabled leg, the Ph.D. student Jae-yeon is a brilliant researcher with a rare ability to communicate with nature. Having been hurt by her hypocrite colleague and lover, she turns her back to the world and goes deep into the forest to live alone in a glass garden.

N/A

Now i'll be brave

An omnibus film produced by Indie Forum. The directors made a short film of about five minutes under the theme of "self-reliance".

N/A

The Mutation

A native Korean man, born to Korean parents as a Black individual, and a lesbian woman still holding onto memories of her ex-lover embark on a journey together.

6.0

Passerby #3

Jiwan quits her job and start working on a script to become a film director. She has worked on her script for many years but making it into a film seems almost impossible. As she runs around the field in frustration, shee sees a shining rainbow in a puddle and finds hope to work on a new project. She writes to a new script of the title 'Rainbow' that is about the fantastic band playing by 7 color.

N/A

Circle Line

A desperate, lonely man and a homeless woman with a baby cross paths in this offbeat slice of life piece.

N/A

Women with a camera

Yu-nan, who took a role of a drummer in director Shin’s debut film, is preparing a solo album. Shin gives her a camcorder used in her film Passerby #3 and asks her to take a selfie. One day the camcorder that Shin lent to Do-yeon arrives. In the box, there was a documentary of her daughter she shot. Shin wonders who were the first woman to hold a movie camera in Korea.

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