Robert Hloz

Robert Hloz is an emerging Prague-based filmmaker. He studied film at Hanyang University in South Korea and at FMK UTB in Zlín.

In 2011, his first short film, The Mill, won the Kodak Student Gold Award for best short film of the year. In 2012, Numbers, another one of his shorts, which was a Czech-Korean co-production, premiered at Cannes in the Court Métrage section and was subsequently nominated for a Czech Academy Award. Numbers received the award for the Best Short Film of the Visegrad countries as well as the Jury Award at the Dresden film festival. When launched on the web, the film garnered over one million views.

In 2012, Robert signed up with the Prague commercial producer Dawson Productions.

In 2014, he made the Berlinale Talents selection.

In 2015, he directed Liars, a story about a group of boys that hide a dead body. Liars won Best Czech Student Film at iShorts 2015 and was a 43rd Student Academy Awards Semifinalist.

Robert Hloz’s debut feature opened at Karlovy Vary to rave reviews in early July 2023. Screen Daily called it a “stylish, high-concept self-contained piece of storytelling”. It is a futuristic piece set in a post-immigrant Europe. Variety’s Guy Lodge opined that director Robert Hloz’s whopper of a calling-card debut may offer a more credibly subdued, budget-constrained visual of the mid-21st century than the lavishly built “Blade Runner 2049” — unless we’re in for a drastic design (r)evolution over the course of the 2040s — but its ideas are sky-high in concept.” In 2017, the project was selected for the Hong-Kong Asia Film Forum and Fantasia’s Frontières co-production markets. It also won the Best Project Award at Midpoint Feature Launch in 2016.