Overview

• The film reframes Kafka through episodes of his life interwoven with dreamlike passages, visits to his fictional worlds and deliberate anachronisms.
• Critics note the approach evokes Kafka’s sensibility without literal set‑pieces of labyrinthine bureaucracy or metamorphosis.
• Holland threads in references to Kafka’s family fate under Nazism and to present‑day Prague’s commercialization of his image.
• At the festival, she called the Israel–Hamas war the most tragic current crisis and warned of an atrophy of empathy and solidarity.
• She said she still receives death threats over her previous film 'Green Border' and linked today’s social‑media dynamics to the decline of liberal democracy.