7 Wonders of Bratislava
In this film subtitled Alternative Soundtrack, which emerged as a student exercise in the Editing Department at FAMU in Prague, the capital city of Slovakia becomes a sign, a symbol, unleashing a game of multiple…
Aqua Fosilot Medica
Real story of a ninety-year-old Sardinian shepherd, who wants to cure the mankind. Since his youth, this exceptional man has been reading various encyclopedias. From books and his own experience he creates original…
Backpackers
A documentary film on young travellers from all over the world who don't mind sleeping along with other backpackers in the rooms of hostels. - Department of editing, FAMU - 5th year (graduate film).
Built To Last - Relics of Socialist Architecture
Experimental/documentary film project Built to Last consisting of 10 short films is depicting socialist architecture and related communist history in the cities of the former Eastern Europe.
The Call of the Wild
Everybody knows that a fence means a border around our property. Stop! Only thieves and small boys don’t respect these borders. Ok, let´s go with them.
The Chance of the Millennium
A girl from a highrise housing projects thinks she is pregnant. Nobody believes her. And certainly nobody believes it could have happened after she got dizzy in a supermarket. After a few months a little corpse of a…
Chateau
A visually refined insight into the life of a family that has been inhabiting a dilapidated castle in the village of Doubravice in North Moravia.
FAMU, Department of Documentary Film (1st year)
Communique
A cheerful essay on civil servants in which the author, drawing on rich documentation of almost etymologic nature, describes the transformation or conversely the passivity of civil servants at a time when they have to…
ESHQ
What is love like in the Muslim world? How do Afghan women perceive their ideal partner and how do they reconcile themselves with the tradition of arranged marriages? Jana Počtová, a student at FAMU (Film and TV School…
Fish'n'Pills
The pill - a symbol of sexual freedom. But what are the consequences? Are people really free in their decision making? Women under the influence of synthetic hormones, fish changing their genders, men suffering from…
For the Love of Prague
For his new love Zdenka left the American cartoon director Gene Deitch in 1958 his family in New York and relocated to Prague. What followed surpasses the most fantastic imagination of Hollywood filmmakers. Besides…
Fortress Visitors
Terezín fortress, a WW2 concentration camp, gets visited by 200,000 tourists every year, as it's a short stop on the way from magical Prague to Karlštejn castle. Enjoy yourself. Cut glass as a souvenir. Dachau,…
Hello Babu
"If you're shooting a film, then you still alive." - A home video from a psychiatric treatment centre. A videocamera was used as a possible means of art therapy. - Department of documentary film, FAMU - 3rd year …
If(Presence of){Artificial Intelligence}
We spend more and more time in front of computer screens. Perhaps we are trying to create an autonomous being in virtual space. What shape can such an artifical intelligence have?
The Ill-Fated Child
A monotonous job, an inconspicuous lifestyle, and a fascination with absolute evil come together in the character of a 20-year-old man. Michal explores the functioning of German concentration camps; he travels, hunts…
Loos's Box
The so-called raumplan, special space-structuring in the Muller's Villa in Prague, respecting function and symbolical importance of each room in the house, was Adolf Loos's specific understanding of functionalism.…
Other perspeсtives
Young Ukranian girl came to Prague to earn money to make a dream come true, she wants to get into Art Academy in Ukraine. She has different kinds of jobs and tries to find time on all of them.
The Portrait
A documentary film with animated sequences about ethnographer Pavlína Brzáková. Travelling can expand horizons but also build a wall around the traveller. A film about unique experience.
Redemption Attempt of a TV Repairman Josef Lávička in Nine Scenes
The short film recounts the pursuit of redemption of Josef Lávička, a village alcoholic. In its course, Lávička tries to get to grips with the Catholic tenets of a text given to him by a local pastor. Making use of…
Starring Beer
Welcome to the country of A. Dvořák, A. Mucha, F. Kafka and P. Urquell, or... Come and see an advertising campaign for the Pilsner Urquell brewery.
Things
Things, a documentary film by FAMU's Marta Hrubá, is a light, witty, poetic essay about the human dilemma between collecting things and getting rid of them. The film's two main characters are Mrs Voldřichová and Mrs…
Truthvision
Are the space creatures "love-hearted", or just "islamophobic"?
Überzwerg/Superdwarf
A film essay of Czechs, Germans and dwarfs. Hundreds of German tourists-retirees, who lived there before the Second World War visit a small Czech village near the Polish border (former Sudetenland). How can old…