
Directing
Shin Su-won
Born
1967-01-01 (59)
Place of birth
Seoul, South Korea
Known for
Directing
Credits
25 titles
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).
Known for
5.9A 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.
Madonna
2015
6.8A 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.
Hommage
2022
7.1Joon 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.
Pluto
2013
NRAt night it’s raining outside. Mom, Dad and Ji-soo are watching TV with anxious. The news report the fire at the kindergarten, where the little daughter goes to. Her name is on the dead list. The family moans about her death… then the girl appears at the door.
Home Sweet Home
2004
7.0Under 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.
Modern Family
2012
5.7A 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.
Light for the Youth
2020
Film credits
Behind the camera
5.9A 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.
Madonna
2015
5.9A 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.
Madonna
2015
6.8A 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.
Hommage
2022
6.8A 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.
Hommage
2022
6.8A 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.
Hommage
2022
7.1Joon 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.
Pluto
2013
7.1Joon 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.
Pluto
2013
NRAt night it’s raining outside. Mom, Dad and Ji-soo are watching TV with anxious. The news report the fire at the kindergarten, where the little daughter goes to. Her name is on the dead list. The family moans about her death… then the girl appears at the door.
Home Sweet Home
2004
7.0Under 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.
Modern Family
2012
7.0Under 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.
Modern Family
2012
5.7A 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.
Light for the Youth
2020
5.7A 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.
Light for the Youth
2020
6.2Despite 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.
Glass Garden
2017
6.2Despite 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.
Glass Garden
2017
NRAn omnibus film produced by Indie Forum. The directors made a short film of about five minutes under the theme of "self-reliance".
Now i'll be brave
2010
NRAn omnibus film produced by Indie Forum. The directors made a short film of about five minutes under the theme of "self-reliance".
Now i'll be brave
2010
7.0A 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.
The Mutation
2025
7.0A 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.
The Mutation
2025
NRA desperate, lonely man and a homeless woman with a baby cross paths in this offbeat slice of life piece.
Circle Line
2012
NRA desperate, lonely man and a homeless woman with a baby cross paths in this offbeat slice of life piece.
Circle Line
2012
6.0Jiwan 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.
Passerby #3
2010
6.0Jiwan 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.
Passerby #3
2010
NRYu-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.
Women with a camera
2011
In her mid-thirties, Haerim, a Korean woman recently divorced, arrives in Paris with Suyoung, the six-year-old daughter she has taken from her ex-husband after a custody conflict. With limited money and no legal protection, Haerim impulsively decides to retrace a journey she once made in her youth — from Paris to the coastal town of Étretat — believing that movement itself might offer refuge.
A Way to Étretat
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