North American Premiere
Yun Simkyoung’s drama stars Choi Myeong-bin as Young-sun, an ace tennis player forced to live as competitively off the court as on. Abandoned by her adoptive parents, the young teenager resides in an orphanage where she leans on her love of tennis to compensate for life’s woes. When she’s chosen to be the live-in trainer of Sua (Moon Seung-a), a girl from a very wealthy family, it seems Young-sun’s skill has paid off. But Sua resents her new housemate, and Young-sun finds herself doing desperate things to hold on to her new life…
Yun’s film is attuned to the nuances of class, character, and competition, and the three factors intersect in fascinating ways throughout the story, with every new development a shift in power dynamics. There’s a subtle but insistent suspense to Sua’s Home, and a moral ambiguity too: Young-sun’s lies, manipulations, and betrayals are as understandable as they are distasteful. This is a film of psychological combat, with unstable alliances and merciless tactics.
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Choi Myeongbin, Moon Seung-a, Kim Taehun, Yoo Dain, Leem Seungmin, Jeong Ji-in
South Korea
2025
In Korean with English subtitles
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Credits & Director
Executive Producer
Kim Sung-hwan
Producer
Yoo Jae-kyung, Kim Dong-woo
Screenwriter
Yun Simkyoung
Cinematography
Kim Ji-ryong
Editor
Won Chang-jae
Production Design
Kim Young-tak
Original Music
Kim Chae-eun
Yun Simkyoung 윤심경
Born in 1981, Yun Simkyoung graduated from Jeonbuk National University with a degree in business administration and later studied screenwriting at the Korea National University of the Arts. She has directed four short films that screened at festivals in Korea and abroad. Known for character-driven stories about the lonely and marginalised, Yun makes her feature directorial debut with Sua’s Home.
Filmography: Silent Crying (2003); Husband and Wife (2012); On the Way to Her (2014); Bom’s Home (2022)
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