Director: Kim Tae-gon
A sudden storm turns a routine crossing into a chain-reaction disaster, and the bridge itself becomes the trap.
What is Project Silence about?
When violent weather cuts visibility to almost nothing on the Airport Bridge, a pile-up of crashes and explosions leaves dozens of drivers and passengers stranded on a structure that may not hold. The disaster gets worse when a covert military transport carrying trained canine test subjects from the classified program "Project Silence" is caught in the same wreckage and the animals escape their containment. What starts as a rescue-and-survival scenario turns into something far more dangerous, as the stranded survivors realize they are no longer only fighting the weather and the collapsing bridge, but something that got loose alongside them.
Cast & crew
Lee Sun-kyun and Ju Ji-hoon lead an ensemble that includes Kim Hee-won, Moon Sung-keun, Ye Su-jeong, Kim Tae-woo, Park Hee-von, and Park Ju-hyun, playing the mix of drivers, officials, and soldiers caught on the bridge.
Context & significance
Project Silence sits alongside a run of recent South Korean disaster thrillers that trap an ensemble cast inside a single, collapsing piece of infrastructure, using the confined setting to escalate tension quickly while raising questions about what secret military research is willing to risk in public spaces. Director Kim Tae-gon keeps the action anchored to the Airport Bridge itself, so the storm, the pile-up of crashes and explosions, and the escaped test animals from Project Silence all converge on one narrow, failing structure. That single-location pressure lets the film shift from a straightforward rescue scenario into a survival ordeal, as the stranded drivers, officials, and soldiers realize the collapsing bridge is no longer their only threat. The ensemble is deliberately mixed, so strangers thrown together by the disaster are forced to cooperate under conditions that keep worsening. By tying its spectacle to a covert program whose consequences spill into a public space, the 2024 release uses genre thrills to gesture at the cost of research kept hidden from the people it endangers.
Where & how to watch
Project Silence is streaming on K-Time with Persian dubbing, part of a catalog built specifically around Farsi subtitles, dubs, and an interface designed for Iranian viewers abroad. Reading about the film costs nothing; watching it requires a K-Time account login.