Lee Ranhee worked as an actor and planner from 1996 at the theater troupe Han River before entering film as a screenwriter, director, and actor. Her short film A Perm (2009), about a migrant woman, screened at the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) and Berlin International Film Festival and won the Hamburger Competition Award at the Hamburg International Short Film Festival. Her feature debut film about a laid-off worker, A Leave (2020), premiered at BIFF and received three awards at the Seoul Independent Film Festival along with the Yu Hyun-mok Film Art Award at the Buil Film Awards. Her latest film, The Final Semester (2024), a sensitive portrait of a young worker's first job, won multiple honors at prestigious film festivals at home and abroad, including four awards at the BIFF, earning widespread critical acclaim. She has also acted in Geo-Lobotomy (2004), Daytime Drinking (2009), and The Nature Man (2023).
From Busan International Film Festival 2026, No. 31
