Shin Su-won

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

Film credits

Behind the camera

Madonna poster
5.9

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.

Madonna

2015

Madonna poster
5.9

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.

Madonna

2015

Hommage poster
6.8

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.

Hommage

2022

Hommage poster
6.8

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.

Hommage

2022

Hommage poster
6.8

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.

Hommage

2022

Pluto poster
7.1

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.

Pluto

2013

Pluto poster
7.1

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.

Pluto

2013

Home Sweet Home poster
NR

At 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

Modern Family poster
7.0

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.

Modern Family

2012

Modern Family poster
7.0

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.

Modern Family

2012

Light for the Youth poster
5.7

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.

Light for the Youth

2020

Light for the Youth poster
5.7

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.

Light for the Youth

2020

Glass Garden poster
6.2

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.

Glass Garden

2017

Glass Garden poster
6.2

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.

Glass Garden

2017

Now i'll be brave poster
NR

An 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

Now i'll be brave poster
NR

An 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

The Mutation poster
7.0

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.

The Mutation

2025

The Mutation poster
7.0

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.

The Mutation

2025

Circle Line poster
NR

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

Circle Line

2012

Circle Line poster
NR

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

Circle Line

2012

Passerby #3 poster
6.0

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.

Passerby #3

2010

Passerby #3 poster
6.0

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.

Passerby #3

2010

Women with a camera poster
NR

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.

Women with a camera

2011

No artwork available
NR

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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