Kim Sae-byuk

Silence of the Lambs

A drama about the conflict between Captain Choi Hyeong-won, who has to silence a case to seize the last chance of promotion

Sophie's World

Coincidentally, Suyoung finds her photo in a traveling blog. There, she discovers Sophie’s record of 4 days in Korea spent in her house. Through Sophie’s journal, Suyoung takes a fresh look at the worst times that she had endured with her husband, Jonggu. At last, the unknown feelings and truths seem to be understandable. We had been crying and laughing through Sophie’s point of view. Which sentiment did we leave behind?

Dreamers

I'm sure everyone has this experience. You had a happy dream but you don't remember it at all. Or you had a nightmare and it felt so real as if it was a reality. Or the reality was just so harsh that you just kept on sleeping. This story has been created for those people. (Source: KBS World TV)

Thank You for Your Cinema

Min Jung and Sae Byuk are independent film directors with similar careers. Sae Byuk hasn't been able to make good achievements with her work and one day runs into Min Jung at the movies. Min Jung tells Sae Byuk that she 'enjoyed her movie'. However, that only deepens Sae Byuk's agony. The two of them decide to find better words to replace them.

Romance Joe

A famous movie director arrives in a small town to finish his movie script. He sits in front of his computer in his motel, but can't think of anything to write. The director orders coffee to his room and then complains to the delivery girl of his writer's block.

Broker

Sang-hyun is always struggling from debt, and Dong-soo works at a baby box facility. On a rainy night, they steal the baby Woo-sung, who was left in the baby box, to sell him at a good price. Meanwhile, detectives were watching, and they quietly track them down to capture the crucial evidence.

Hard to Say

When a young girl has her nervous, romantic advances spurned because she cannot find the words to express her feelings, she takes a dejected walk through a wooded area. Finding an abandoned guitar, she begins a surreal journey of the imagination to glimpse the loving relationship she longs for and prove she is not the only one who finds words hard to say.

The Cenozoic Life

Minju visits Lithuania in search of her missing husband. She stays with her old friend from college, Oyoung, who’s been living in Lithuania for years. Minju finds traces of her husband from a suspicious Korean man living with Oyoung, but flees from their house after a quarrel between the man and Oyoung. Minju arrives at a hotel where she meets two men claiming to be with the Interpol and follows them in search of her husband. The characters’ time and location become intertwined, until the moment when, what Minju had been searching for, slowly reveals itself.

Tazza: The Hidden Card

Dae-gil has been skilled with his hands and has shown a strong desire for winning ever since he was a child. He will succeed his uncle and jump into the world of Tazza, risking his life in competition.

A Midsummer's Fantasia

Reality and fantasy melds as a Korean documentary film director attempts to capture life in the small town of Gojo, Japan.

Hana

The day after her father’s funeral, Hana goes to his old house to clear the place out, and finds an unexpected company—none other than his dog, Ddaengi. Hana struggles to accept the sudden death of her long-estranged father, and ends up abandoning Ddaengi. At last, her daily life is back on track. She tries to forget her old family and seeks stability in her new family. However, haunted by a sporadic sense of guilt, she starts looking for Ddaengi again.

Stateless Things

Stateless Things crosscuts between the lives of two young men, one an illegal immigrant from North Korea stuck in dead-end jobs, the other the kept boy of a married businessman stifling in a swanky apartment.

Bloomed in the Water

When school picture day gets lost in translation between Korean-American single mom Min and her kindergartener son Noah, Min tries to course-correct with the ragtag help of her assimilated sisters, a sharp new outfit for Noah, and an ocean’s determination to give him better.

Queen of Walking

A high school girl, Man-bok, who has to walk for four hours every day back and forth between home and her school due to the congenital motion sickness disorder, happens to begin her training as a speed walking athlete unexpectedly. Through the cooperative training with her friend Soo-ji, whom she meets in the school track and field team, Man-bok discovers her path of life in this heartwarming and touching story.

Jamsil

A young woman in her 20s, Chae Meehee, visits middle-aged Cho Sungsook and insists that they were once childhood best friends. Though Cho Sungsook has never seen Chae Meehee before, they become closer at Meehee’s insistence. Their pasts cross paths as though they were traveling through time.

Manshin: Ten Thousand Spirits

A life documentary of a woman who was shunned for being possessed by spirits as a girl, oppressed for following superstitions as an adult, how she grows to be a great shaman who embraces the pain of all people, and how she comes to be honored as a national treasure of Korea with her outstanding artistic talents throughout Korea's tumultuous history.

The Day After

On her first day at work, Areum replaces a woman who broke up with the boss. The wife of the boss finds a love note, bursts into the office, and mistakes Areum for the other woman.

The First Lap

Between reproaches over past problems that were never resolved and the uncertainty of a future that is relentlessly coming closer, a young couple takes a trip that will leave them at the beginning of a new life.

Possible Faces

Kisun, who is an administrative staff of a high school, one day becomes curious about a soccer club student, Jinsoo all of the sudden. Kisun’s ex-lover, Hyejin quits her job as a office lady and is busy renovating her mother’s small restaurant. Hyunsoo, the courier, is the only free brushing past these people and someone is watching all of this.

The King of the Border

Eugene, a film school graduate, came to Poland to meet her old friends. Dongchul, who also studied film, came to Ukraine to meet his old friends also. They travel separately through Europe, visiting their own cities, and waiting for their own objects to arrive a few days later. Sometimes they imagine the movie they want to make.

A Blue Mouthed Face

A woman asks her mother to leave for the sake of her and her brother’s happy life. But her brother does not open his mind to her. Although she gets closer to her co-workers at her new workplace, she has no choice but to become a disrupter of them. Without hope, her brother commits suicide in front of her. Her family members and colleagues have left her. Left alone, she dreams of life again.

Grass

Areum sits in a small café, typing on her laptop. Around her, customers enact various dramas from their lives. Is she writing what she hears or is she hearing what's been written?

House of Hummingbird

14-year-old Eun-hee moves through life like a hummingbird searching for a taste of sweetness wherever she may find it. Ignored by her parents and abused by her brother, she finds her escape by roaming the neighborhood with her best friend, going on adventures, and exploring young love.

A Thoughtful Night

A woman and a man are sitting side by side. It is a thoughtful night.

A Fine Day to Walk

A road movie that realizes true happiness and joy of life through a trip.

Wednesday Prayer Group

Hera is a middle-aged woman who visits and sells cosmetics. Hera, who has escaped from the crisis through a chance to meet Sojung, suggests a part-time job at Wednesday Prayer Group to Sojung who gave a favor to her.

Adulthood

At her dad's funeral, Kyungun meets her uncle Jaemin, a complete stranger. He bilks her father's insurance money. She demands her money back, but he unashamedly refuses. To get her money back, she joins his next scam.

A Resistance

17-year-old Yu Gwan-Sun participates in the Korean independence movement. The country is under the rule of Japan, which annexed the country in 1910.

Deranged

People binge eat and suffer from extreme thirst, which leads them to go crazy for water. They cannot control themselves because they are brainwashed by a parasite.

Kingmaker

Seo Chang-dae, an ambitious political campaign strategist who ends up having ideological differences with his present client, receives a lucrative offer that will put his loyalty under the microscope.

Sunny

Seven girls become good friends in high school, then events pull them apart for 25 years. When one of the friends lies dying in a hospital, she wishes to see each of them one last time.

Birds Fly Back to the Nest

The scattered families gather and visit their mother.

The Woman Who Ran

While her husband is on a business trip, Gamhee meets three of her friends. She visits the first two at their homes, and the third she encounters by chance at a theater. While they make friendly conversation, as always, several currents flow independently above and below the surface of the sea.

Sisyphus's Vacation

Early in the morning, Kubo goes out to meet his senior KI-young who is editor-in-chief of the publishing company to see if he can publish his manuscript that he sent two months ago.

In Front of Your Face

She has never lived in a high-rise apartment, and she wonders how her sister can live at this height every day. A few days ago she kind of burst in to stay with her sister, and she is now becoming re-accustomed to life in Korea. While seeming to keep a grave secret to herself, she manages life one day at a time with a sense of mindfulness. Meanwhile a certain director, some years younger than her, has asked her to join his project, and after a polite refusal, they have agreed to meet for the first time today. Downtown Seoul is filled with narrow alleys that harbor tiny old bars, and that's where they meet. As they are getting drunk, there is sudden rainfall and thunder.

The Observer's Journal

Observes multiple lives through figures who blur the boundaries of identity such as a director, a spy, a traveler, and a woman who can see ghosts.