K A F K A S

A short film by Nick Blake.

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“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly” - Franz Kafka

Starring: Patsy Ferran and Stefanie Martini

Based on the short story by Marianne Wiggins and written for the screen by Robin Blake & Nick Blake.

Massachusetts, 1987. Fran is a college-educated bag of nerves with a head full of philosophy and an unhealthy obsession with Franz Kafka. In the late hours of the night she cold-calls men across America who have the surname Kafka in hope of finding her soul mate. But the Kafkas of her day are more interested in phone sex than philosophy and, as the night wears on, rejection after rejection take their toll. Fantasy begins to merge with reality and Fran’s fragile mental state threatens to collapse like a house of cards.

KAFKAS is a tragicomic tale of paranoid agoraphobia with a twist of Kafkaesque noir.

Kafkas is a short film by Nick Blake. For more information visit kafkasfilm.com

Official Selections:

Slamdance 2022 *Nominated for Outstanding Performance in a Short or Episode

PÖFF Shorts Tallinn Black Nights 2021

Norwich Film Festival 2021

British Shorts Berlin 2022

Beloit International Film Festival 2022 *Winner Josh Burton Award for Creative Excellence

Dam Shorts Film Festival 2022 *Winner Movie Magic® Best Screenplay Award

Manchester Film Festival 2022

Fastnet Film Festival 2022

The Norwegian Short Film Festival 2022