“KAFKA” 1991 | 1h31’ [US\FR] | I THINK, I WRITE IV Cinema Screnings

CicloPENSO LOGO ESCREVO IV

["I THINK, THEREFORE I WRITE IV" Cinema Screenings]

“KAFKA” 1991 | M/12 | 1h31’ [US\FR]
De Steven Soderbergh

Sábado Dia 16/05 às 19h30 [Saturday 05/16 at 7:30pm]

Inspirado no universo literário de Franz Kafka, o filme segue um funcionário de seguros em Praga que se envolve numa conspiração enigmática após a morte de um colega. Realidade e pesadelo confundem-se num mundo burocrático e opressivo.

Inspired by Franz Kafka’s literary universe, the film follows an insurance clerk in Prague who becomes entangled in a mysterious conspiracy after a colleague’s death. Reality and nightmare blur in a bureaucratic and oppressive world.

Spoken in English | Subtitled in Portuguese

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PENSO LOGO ESCREVO (I THINK, THEREFORE I WRITE) is the name of the Creative Writing Workshop proposed by PROSA as a space for inner listening and the creation of fiction, starting from a focus on narratology and the representation of reality. It is an invitation to practice a form of writing that puts us in touch with the ‘self’ — that being who sometimes reveals itself within us, sometimes in the other — building language as one would build a place. Writing is a gesture of search, a quest for being. A liberated act that, beyond enhancing communication skills, stands as a tool for care, resistance, and self-reinvention. In a world increasingly demanding of creativity, writing also becomes a means of survival — emotional, symbolic, and at times, physical.

It is within this horizon that Kafka (1991), by Steven Soderbergh, finds its place. The film imagines the life of the writer Franz Kafka in Prague as though he himself were trapped inside one of his own novels. A humble insurance clerk by day and a writer by night, Ka