19th New York Asian Film Festival

Aug 28 - Sep 12, 2020

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International Premiere

SF8: Empty Body

에스 에프 에잇: 인간 증명

Available: Sept. 5 - 12, All USA

Limited seating

Death is no longer the end in a world where the human brain and AI can be connected to give the dead an afterlife. After her son dies in an accident, Hye-ra (Moon So-ri) has him resurrected by merging his brain with an artificial conscience. But things don’t turn out as expected... one day, Hye Ra finds her son acting like he’s someone else. Has the AAI replaced her son and deleted his soul?

Praised as the Korean Black Mirror, SF8 is exemplary of the new wave of prestige TV fiction that’s found its best expression with shows like HBO’s Westworld or the aforementioned British series, where the lines between small and big screen media meld into a revolutionary visual grammar. An ambitious movie-drama crossover project between MBC, the Directors Guild of Korea, the OTT platform Wavve and the production company Soo Film, this series of stand-alone anticipation tales takes sci-fi to the next level. SF8 was released on Wavve in July while MBC started airing it on August 14.

Director: Kim Ui-seok
Cast: Jang Yoo-sang, Moon So-ri
Languages: Korean with English subtitles
2020; 52 min.

SCHEDULE:

Friday September 11, 10:40pm
Smart Cinema USA

Available: Sept. 5 - 12, All USA