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- An old father, still a tyrant despite his age. Edward, the son, devoured by his Oedipus complex. And Karla, the young woman betrothed to Edward, who dreams about her future husband's attempt to break free from the yoke of his father and assert his own will.
- Two men have a plan and head to a party.When they arrive at the house they find a keeper who denies them entry. An adaptation with electronic vibes of K.'s tale.A small oneiric reflection on current issues seen from a classic-modern story.
- In The Penal Colony is a short film based on Franz Kafka's nightmarish tragicomedy of the same name.
- The curious adventure of Mr Rotpeter, a monkey turned into a man. Starting from Kafka's novel 'A Report to an Academy', Antonietta De Lillo's movie sets Mr Rotpeter's adventure in a nowadays Naples. Its peculiar storytelling flows between a faraway past and our recent reality. Mr Rotpeter's interest is strongly connected to human nature, society, politics, inner behaviours and emotions. Antonietta De Lillo's short movie will drag us into a very unique atmosphere, causing us a sense of disorientation and commotion.
- Austria. 1914. After a discussion with his family, Gregor Samsa goes to sleep. The next morning he awakes becoming a strange insect. The metamorphosis has began.
- About a depression era circus act where a man starves himself for the amusement of the masses.
- Follows a country doctor's hapless struggle to attend a sick young boy on a snowy winter's night. Based on "A Country Doctor / Ein Landarzt" by Franz Kafka.
- It is an adaptation of Franz Kafka's short story entitled 'A Hunger Artist'. The story deals with a young man in his late twenties, Bhuto, belonging to the lower middle class income group. He regularly sits on 'bhuk hartal' (hunger strikes) protesting against the international incidents of violence happening all over the world. He gets used to tolerate hunger for days as the occurrences of violence are so very frequent across the globe in our times. A street-smart business-minded friend, called Ghona, picks him up as a prized pawn, who he can take advantage of. Ghona can see 'a hunger artist' in him and asks him to sell his 'art of hunger' as a 'reality show' artist which will earn them money. What becomes of Bhuto...is he able to hold on to his righteousness or does he get swayed by the fame and fortune.
- A tone poem about the lives and deaths of some people trying to be human.
- Each episode is an independent fiction and its screenplay is built around the constraints of classical theatre, where the director is required to develop his characters in a predefined and perfectly confined outdoor or interior space.
- ..so the past and the future merge into a single present, in the terrible and unusual life of the Cursed Courtyard. " Ivo Andric"
- A victim of a consumer obsessed society, indifferent to people's individual suffering; the Hunger Artists struggle becomes a statement about our society. Starving himself for the amusement of others until near death the Hunger Artist never had to think about his predicament too much. In a bizarre attempt to extort money from the Hunger Artists owner, 2 thieves kidnap him for a ransom. Nothing is paid and the thieves 'throw him away'. Lost and confused he becomes a source classic Freudian reflection and projection. Everyone he meets take a little something from him and cuts him loose again. Eventually the Hunger Artist is found dying by a group of new century clubbers who comfort and protect him like a messiah during his last moments, and are left empty with his passing.
- Joseph K. awakes one morning, to find two strange men in his room, telling him he has been arrested. Joseph is not told what he is charged with, and despite being "arrested," is allowed to remain free and go to work. But despite the strange nature of his arrest, Joseph soon learns that his trial, however odd, is very real, and tries desperately to spare himself from the court's judgement.
- A man is awakened by police one morning and arrested without knowing what he is charged with. We follow the protagonist's path through an absurd and labyrinthine justice system
- A man awakens one morning to find himself incapable of leaving his room. Since he financially supports his parents and teenager sister, this is a problem. HIs abusive boss keeps appearing to insult him, as if he was still at work. His family feed him leftovers, hoping his health will return and he will go back to work. After a while, the family plots to get rid of the bedridden, rotting person in the room. "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka provides the ingredients to this pitch black comedy.
- The life and work of one of the most influential writers of the 20th century.
- Podcast based on original scripts and radio adaptations of stage dramas, novels, reports and poetry.
- One casual morning, the daily life of Gregor Samsa takes a strange turn when he is transformed into a gigantic bug and he is forced to endure the disparaging attitude of his family and society towards him. 'The Metamorphosis' by Pencho is a movie, which adheres rigidly to the original novella and equally powerfully shows us how a sudden change is perceived as a monstrous metamorphosis - a story with both literal and allegorical interpretation.