Available: Sept. 5 - 12, All USA

Limited seating

In the near future, at a nursing home entirely run by machines, a woman has been in a coma for 10 years. The nursing robot who looks after both the patient and the caregiver becomes distressed when she has to decide who she should save: the bedridden woman or the helper. The Prayer revisits the question of whether machines can think, but goes one step further: confronted with critical decisions, can a robot experience the anxiety of choice?

Min Kyu-dong's earlier films, Memento Mori (AKA Whispering Corridors 2: Memento Mori) played at NYAFF 2001, and All About My Wife at NYAFF 2012.

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.