The Mix-up

The Cockroach

July 2022 •Persian

The groom goes to the hairdresser to take the bride but he's been told that she has become a cockroach.

Pushover

October 2023 •English

A man's life is upended by increasingly threatening phone calls demanding he leave a review for a paperweight purchased online.

Bills Included

June 2019 •Spanish

In Madrid, a tenant agrees to ignore the existence of the other tenant living in his apartment, so that both inhabit the space as if it were an individual use.

The Divinity of a City

January 2024 •English

David Bono is a hitman hired to target Orshanabi Nazzar, a high-ranking priest-bureaucrat in a temple corporation in the fictional city of Babylonia (Brussels-based). The corporation has invented a way to avoid death by recording people's lives. While gathering information and preparing for the job, David meets Ellie, with whom they slept together. However, Ellie is a member of a cult called Children of Ishtar, and David's job would interrupt their life-recording ceremony. Facing an obsessive dilemma, David tries to find a way to do his mission without killing Ellie. First, he tries to convince Ellie not to attend the ceremony, and then he hires a local crook to kidnap her while he does the job. After the successful job, Ellie frees herself from the kidnapper, discovers the truth, and leaves for Akkadia. Meanwhile, David calls to receive the rest of his payment but gets ambushed by the contractor.

¡EyL!

April 2023 •Spanish

Two people have a plan and head to a party

Please Hold (Your Call Means a Lot To Us)

Invalid date •English

Reece Fenton enters the Bureau of Corrections after experiencing a problem with his tax file. Jacob, the woman at the desk, explains that the file has been mixed up with that of ‘Mr Benton’, a 66 year old dead man. Both Jacob and her illiberal supervisor Mr Moggs determine that the best way to resolve this issue is for Mr Fenton to die as well.

Gobsmacked

Invalid date •English

Private Detective H. Gibson loses a case-file for the first time in his decade-spanning career. He decides to try to solve the mystery, of what it is he is supposed to be investigating.

It's rolling like a tomato

May 2024 •French

After mysteriously turning into a tomato, Israël must survive to his family and colleagues.

The Trial

December 1962 •English

Josef K wakes up in the morning and finds the police in his room. They tell him that he is on trial but nobody tells him what he is accused of. In order to find out about the reason for this accusation and to protest his innocence, he tries to look behind the façade of the judicial system. But since this remains fruitless, there seems to be no chance for him to escape from this nightmare.

A Hunger Artist

January 2023 •English

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

October 1970 •Italian

Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and the social order it protects.

The Penultimate

November 2021 •Danish

The film is a Kafkaesque tale of an insignificant Water Inspector who arrives at a giant remote building in order to register the residents’ water meters. Before he knows of it, he finds himself trapped inside the building facing an “Alice in NO-Wonderland”-like maze of obstacles. In his attempt to escape, perception of reality, the rational, and the remnants of his human existence is turned upside down.

Inertia

March 2015 •English

During a walk in the woods a man stumbles upon a gate blocked by a guard who refuses to let him through. Gaining entry quickly becomes his obsession and only goal, to the detriment of all else, including his own physical and mental health.

Roach Motel

October 2023 •English

Two runaway, gun-obsessed, outlaw lovers are given a task to kill two political figures in the midst of a civil revolution outside the walls where these characters are trapped, waiting for the phone call to give them a sense of purpose

Kopf in den Wolken

September 2023 •German

K

January 1954 •English

Short film adaptation of Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis'.

Tenure

Invalid date •English

When a dedicated college professor is denied tenure, he turns to black magic in a moment of desperation but finds himself trapped in a private hell of his own making.

The Hunger Artist

June 2002 •English

Set in a city both past and present, on a deserted street where only the distant sounds of life blow by. The Hunger Artist stands alone, locked in his cage. Once famous and adored by the crowds, he now performs alone.

The Country Doctor

January 1956 •English

Adaptation of a Kafka short story, believed lost for more than 60 years.

Polymorphia

October 2024 •English

After an accident leaves his face entirely bandaged, a neurotic office worker undergoes an identity crisis.