Ivo Špalj Movies

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

Jan Nemec, a leading filmmaker of the Czech New Wave, creates an original portrait of one of the most provocative artists of the 20th century: Toyen...

A tribe of survivors take possession of a large but rundown building, killing all who put up resistance - but they don't know that the building is...

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

An animated exploration of the human head

A little girl goes down to the basement cellar to fetch some potatoes, and finds all her hidden fears about the cellar depicted in animated form.

Kinoautomat was the world's first interactive movie, conceived by Radúz Činčera for the Czechoslovak Pavilion at Expo '67 in...

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

A film story based on the old Prague legends. It tells about a poor student lured by wealth, which he prefers to knowledge. In the end, he sells his...

A tragicomic story about Lady Poverty who, unmistakably and without any hesitation, catches one lazy fellow after another. However, she is helpless...

A story of an extraordinary artist who has unintentionally signed a deal with a devil. Jiří Trnka was one of the biggest Czech artists of...

In the diary of a six-year-old girl, Marie, we learn what important things happened during one holiday month before she started first grade and how...

A cartoon in the form of a comic describes the process of development of human thought.

The puppet film Mashkin Killed Koshkin, based on the short story of the same name by Daniil Kharms, is a small, absurd story of two heroes who...

Cartoon tennis match, with players based on Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe.

In a cafe, people talk, their words become expresively-shaped balloons. An older waiter tries to connect with a young woman who's reading. She...

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

A non-narrative voyage round Sedlec Ossuary, which has been constructed from over 50,000 human skeletons (victims of the Black 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...