Ivo Špalj Movies

A poetic, but chilling story of seven puppets in train car prior to its journey to a concentration camp.

An animation film about a clarinet and a trumpet that meet, clash, compete, compromise and harmonize.

A fable on the futility of progress for its own sake.

A dead soldier comes for his fiancée from the grave.

This controversial feature blends documentary, archival footage and fiction into an elliptical narrative in which two young people in Prague, an...

A look at the legendary Czech sound designer and his profession. Editor and documentary filmmaker Adéla Špaljová has her father...

A bust of Stalin is cut open on an operating table, leading to an elaborate animated depiction of Czech history from 1948 (the Communist takeover) to...

A film about fatal love, bad dreams, normal madness and unnecessary death.

The film animation technique of pixilation was used in this short comedy. The notorious criminal Bloodthirsty Hugo has broken out of prison again. He...

Jonáš, an aging comedian, wanders the restored Semafor theater lost in memories of his glory days. He finds unexpected inspiration in...

Tomáš Etzler worked for seven years as a foreign correspondent in China. He came to know a country that was developing at an admirably...

On a lonely island, where Odysseus has to serve the nymph Calypso, he remembers his great adventures: the glorious victory over Troy; the curse of...

An animated exploration of the human head

On summer vacation a young teenager finds himself hanging out alone on the streets of his neighbourhood, all his friends having gone to the country...

A modern version of a classical fairy-tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a veteran who got rich thanks to a magic flint and thus he could marry a...