Film Knot Zlín
High above the city of Zlín, a distinctive complex of buildings overlooks the city. In the middle of green forests, there are red brick houses of various shapes with narrow streets between them, and a few people occasionally passing through. When you enter the compound, you can feel the Californian atmosphere. You sense the hustle and bustle of hard work behind the red brick walls, but it's a quiet afternoon out here.
You stand in the middle of the famous film studios that Jan Antonín Bat'a founded here in 1936 as a small studio for the needs of the advertising department. However, cooperation with important authors, excellent facilities and relative creative freedom contributed to the studios' growth and many unique personalities created their films here. Among them were Karel Zeman, Hermína Týrlová and the Oscar-winning Elmar Klos and Alexander Hackenschmied. The cultural and educational centre Film Knot displays the history and the present of this place.
The Film Knot building will offer visitors a stylish film café, art workshops for animation, a cinema hall, and also Lojzík's playroom for children. Here, you will experience banana rain, a balloon flight or a ride on the little pig Lojzík.
What will entertain both children and adults are animation workshops. Children from schools and kindergartens, adults and seniors create stories full of imagination. Anyone can do it under the guidance of experienced animators. Maybe you will create a new Journey to the Beginning of Time, Invention for Destruction, Ferda the Ant or The Fabulous Baron Munchausen. These famous stories were created right here – in the Zlín Film studios.
Where next
- Walk through the whole of the Zlín Film studios.
- Come and visit the international film festival for children and youth Zlín Film Fest.
Opening hours
Café
MON closed
TUE–FRI 9AM–5PM
SAT 10AM–5PM
SUN closed
Animation Workshops
By appointment
