how gregor samsa became a bug (canonised)

Beau Is Afraid

April 2023 •English

Following the sudden death of his mother, a mild-mannered but anxiety-ridden man confronts his darkest fears as he embarks on an epic, Kafkaesque odyssey back home.

The Metamorphosis

June 2007 •Portuguese

Pedro is a young man, carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders, but one day, he wakes up feeling different.

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.

Metamorphosis

Invalid date •German

The Metamorphosis

May 2024 •Dutch

As Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning from unsettling dreams, he finds himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.

The Mix-up

May 1994 •Arabic

Ihsan is a simple employee in the Ministry of Culture from the house to the office and vice versa his work colleague Nargis loves and plans to marry him. He is surprised by one of the security authorities arrested and directed a number of charges, which does not know the cause and continues to haunt him

It's rolling like a tomato

May 2024 •French

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

Lips

Invalid date •Spanish

Franz works for the Japanese, but makes a mistake and the corporation condemns him to wander through a harrowing virtual setting.

Swaroopa

December 2014 •English

Loosely based on Franz Kafka's novella Metamorphosis 'Swaroopa' narrates the story of Gregory Samson and his family of father, mother, sister assisted by a maid within the social transformations taking place in late colonial and early postcolonial Sri Lanka.

Flush Memoria

January 2015 •English

A film exploring a Kafkaesque setting where spy is played against spy.

Escape

October 2024 •Spanish

A young man becomes convinced that the solution to all his problems is to live in jail, and he will do whatever it takes to get it.

Silverfisken

March 2023 •Swedish

The Judgment

April 2016 •English

Adapted from the short story by Franz Kafka, The Judgment is a psychological drama exploring themes of alienation, memory, and the lines between fantasy and reality. The film follows Georg Bendemann, a young merchant living 1900s Prague, who is struggling to maintain balance in an ever changing world. As his situation deteriorates due to complicated familial relationships, we are compelled to question the very nature of what we are seeing.

Dis-moi ta classe je te dirai qui tuer

December 2021 •French

The Island of the Dead

January 2012 •German

A soldier is about to be executed because of his disobedience. The execution will be carried out by an ancient machine which engraves a sentence (the committed crime) on a man's skin. What would happen if silent-film fan Franz Kafka were to ask FW Murnau to make a movie of his short story In the Penal Colony?

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.

Franz Kafka

May 1992 •Polish

A fantasy biography of Franz Kafka, bringing to life the writer's diaries and photographs.

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.

Tenure

February 2025 •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.

Bondage Ecstasy

May 1989 •Japanese

A young office worker turns into an insect. As an insect, he enters the orifices of his enemies and possesses them, allowing him to enact his revenge fantasies.