The Castle (1997)

A land surveyor is summoned to a remote village by the local government, housed in ‘the castle’. But when he arrives he is unable to persuade the locals of his legitimacy and finds himself sucked into a bizarre spiral of provincial bureaucracy and petty social rivalries that soon becomes a surreal, all-encompassing nightmare.

Austrian auteur Michael Haneke and Franz Kafka prove to be a match made in a cold, uncompromising heaven, with the writer’s source material providing fertile ground for many of the thematic concerns that recur throughout Haneke’s provocative, often violent work. Showing as part of a season of Haneke films, which also includes Funny Games, Hidden, White Rabbit and Amour. You will need to book your own ticket. Meet on the second floor. Showing in Screen 1.