Content from Directors Guild of Korea

Yeon Jeong In is the legal guardian of her mother, who is lying unconscious in a hospital bed for the past ten years. She feels exhausted from all of it and only has a care giving robot to rely on for support. Meanwhile, the care giving robot, Ho Joong, is conflicted over whom to save.

In the near future, more than half of the world population uses ‘Love Virtually’, a virtual app. People find the partners they want with whose face they want, using a ‘Love Virtually’ ID, which becomes a general trend. A couple creates their IDs with their faces before plastic surgery and develop their love for each other. On the anniversary of the 100th day of their first meeting through the app, the couple are about to make love, but the app is down. Love Virtually is a rom-com about a couple searching for true love in a world where virtual reality is the norm by mixing the real world and virtual reality. Both in the real world and virtual reality, they meet each other before and after cosmetic surgery; the world’s standards for appearance might be meaningless for people trying to find their other half. The important thing is ‘the apple of my eye’, regardless of the real or virtual world.

Juno, a star game broadcaster with 0.8 million subscribers is entangled in a controversy when a former classmate claims Juno falsely made up her own past. Having lost all her money, fame and fans that she had accrued over time, she seeks to recover her reputation and to return to the air by participating in a live broadcast of a new psychology-based VR game. However, she can’t overcome the trauma she faces in the game and she is trapped in the virtual world. In this fiendish game that makes people go back into their past traumas, the past she faces is even more painful. The nightmare within the game, which seems never ending, is a part of her own subconsciousness that she hasn’t addressed, or perhaps she doesn’t want to know about.

An AI fortunetelling service called Manxin boasts a surprisingly high level of accuracy. In a world where most people deify and have blind faith in Manxin, Seonho and Garam, who have their own pain and secrets, search for its developer. Contrary to their expectations, they discover the true nature of Manxin. Manxin questions life and the essence of humankind through people who are, ironically, obsessed with the black arts rather than science, and others, who refuse the given path, anxiously seek the truth in a time of advanced AI, which accurately predicts the future to a large extent. Although we don’t know where our time is leading, isn’t it possible for human beings to live out their given time in blissful ignorance?

The world is going to end in one week’s time. As the end approaches, people reveal all sort of hidden aptitudes, even psychic abilities. Hye Hwa tries to prevent the world from coming to an end with Kim Nam Woo, a forever-single type, who just feels lonely, even at that critical moment. Can they save the world and start love? One week is enough time for the world to end, but not enough for love to begin. For the time being, there aren’t many things left to do, but the end of the world would be the moment I disappear. However, if I existed somewhere else, the world would carry on regardless. Baby It’s over outside holds a question about the existence of both the world and us. All the characters in the film are adorable, particularly the psychics who come forward to the save the world: Hye Hwa, who is embarrassed about her trivial abilities, and Nam Woo, who believes he has met Hye Hwa before.

Young-in was brought back to life by his mother with the help of AI. However, the sweetness of seeing his son again didn't last so long. But soon, his mother realizes that the AI ‘deleted’ Young-in’s consciousness and has been pretending to be him.

In a world devastated by a fine dust pollution, society has been divided into two castes: the "Cs" (Clean) are those who can afford a vaccine at birth which permits a 100-year lifespan and the "Ns" (Non-clean) are those who can't and will usually die by the time they are 30. Two young women who share the same tragic fate take comfort in each other's company.

SF8 revolves around people who dream of a perfect society, and it tackles the conflict between technology and human. It encapsulates a variety of topics such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality, robots, games, fantasy, horror elements, superpowers, disasters, and more.