Inaka Isha

Introduction:

A short animation from academy award nominee Koji Yamamura ("Mt. Head" Oscar Nomination 2003, Annecy 2003 Grand Prix) based on famed Jewish-Czech writer Franz Kafka's short prose of the same name from 1919.

Story:

A hapless country doctor describes with breathless urgency a night-time summons to attend a young patient.

Events soon take on a surreal aspect as "unearthly horses" transport him instantaneously to the bedside.

The doctor, preoccupied with personal distractions and grievances against those he is employed to care for, fails to find what is revealed to be a vile, fatal wound.

He is humiliated by the villagers who are "always expecting the impossible from the doctor," and doomed to an endless return trip, losing everything.