Atlanta Jewish Film Festival – Franz

From eminent filmmaker Agnieszka Holland comes this bold, prismatic reimagining of Franz Kafka’s life, fusing biography, memory, and surreal invention to illuminate the inner world of one of the twentieth century’s most enigmatic Jewish writers. Moving restlessly through time—slipping between past, fevered fantasies, and the ghostly afterlife of his legacy—Kafka navigates a Prague childhood eclipsed by his domineering father, creative partnerships that fueled him, and the anxieties and illnesses that shadowed his final years. A richly atmospheric vision of Central Europe frames actor Idan Weiss’s riveting turn, an uncanny embodiment of Kafka’s haunted interiority, in Poland’s Best International Feature Oscar submission and winner of four Gdynia Film Festival awards, including Best Film.