4/4 Prelude
Great-grandson, grandson, son - grandson, son, father - son, father, grandfather - father, grandfather, great-grandfather. A portrait of a man in four roles. Four perspectives of the world, different in their form,…
4 Things
Full-length picture of four short films of four directors:
Test: Václav Švankmajer, feature film
Motocyklení: Markéta Válková, documentary
Veci: Marta Hrubá, documentary
Grandmother Nemcová's Diary: Jan Gogola ml.,…
About-hair
Why do we have hairs, what is their purpose, what are they made of, and when did we stop loving them? The hybrid audiovisual essay with performative moments gives us various perspectives of the hair. Instructional video…
The Adam Basma Project
My uncle, Adam Basma, is a belly dancer who fled our convential Muslim family at a young age. Growing up with only what he left behind, I've been wondering my whole life who Adam truly is.
Advent
A reconstructed documentary taking place before Christmas on the periphery of Prague. One night and one morning in the lives of six protagonists looking for their place at the beginning of the 21st century. Drug…
The Adventure of Anna Barbora - An Interplay
In a single scene, film director Vít Janeček records a discussion between journalist, ecologist and sociologist Jakub Patočka and his girlfriend Kateřina Havránková about a sudden turnaround in the case of 13-year-old…
An Artist under the Bark of Our National Amusement Park
The specific art of bark beetles as seen through the aesthetic paradigms of our time. The Czech President simply observed with no relation to any paradigm at all. The actions of both the bug and the President commented…
And that light changes shape
A short documentary about Lubomír Přibyl, mostly shot at his Prague's studio and Museum Kampa in Prague. A reflection of his lifelong work, using a minimalist camera and black and white images to underscore Přibyl's…
Apart
In her short, emotional film about life after the loss of a loved one, the author enthrallingly deals with a difficult topic, using techniques of both feature and animated film. Real experiences of the narrators,…
The Apple and the Tree
The exploration of the topic of womanhood starts of by the inquiry into the notion of the position of women in the familial structure in Bulgaria. The filmmaker delves into her mother’s upbringing, as well as her later…
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…
Athough I Love Them, They Piss Me Off
A personal meeting with a man who has changed my life.
A portrait of the Prague Priest Mons. Jiří Reinsberg (30. 3. 1918 - 6. 1. 2004), who served more than fifty years in the churh of St Havel in the Old Town and at…
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).
The Bark Beetle of Šumava
In the forest of Šumava a small beetle thrives in the wood while men are fighting outside to decide of his fate. The tale of the bark beetle and of the political events in which he was involve in Czech Republic in 2011.
Beautiful Solution
Do we need pesticides, if we have flower strips?
Berkat and Marsho/Happiness and Freedom
Two courageous Czech women decide to set up an organization called Berkat (Happiness) with the aim of helping war victins, especially children. Jana Hradilkova and Petra Prochazkova discover the Sputnik camp on the…
Better Tomorrow
This incisive documentary film looks inside the global organization of young and ambitious economics students who want to change the world and make it better. While working for companies, they try to encourage corporate…
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 Caique's Flight Against the Wind
Produced in the studio of director Martin Mareček, this short documentary by Prague Film School student Jaroslava Panáková focuses on a group of young people studying in St. Petersburg, who belong to the Chukot ethnic…
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)
Chitter Chatter, That's All You're Good At. Said Vegetable.
Inevitably, every relationship is nonsensical to some degree, especially when we are talking about people and parrots. This film was made about them and for Edward Lear, a poet with a Shakespearean name, who began his…
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…
Cow Is Our Mother
India as a society in transition, between tradition and globalization. Cow as the sacred Mother. 300 billion mothers. A dirty business, smugglers buying old cows from poor peasants and transporting them over the border…
Czech Dream
Prague, Czech Republic, 31 May, 2003, a few minutes before 10a.m.; there are more than 3000 people jostling on a remote parking place. Many of them are clutching plastic bags in their hands; some of them are armed with…
Daily Manure
Do areálu zemědělského pozemku každý týden přijíždí kamiony a vysypou na zem tuny přebytkové zeleniny a pečiva. Filmová báseň zachycuje zemědělský cyklus a dění na bioplynové stanici v rámci 4 ročních období.
Darkness Under the Lamp
A story about Gypsy kids who want to change their lives but the city gives them a chance to do that only when they are already changed. A story abou misunderstanding and darkness in our heads.
The Dormant Mine
A 16mm film shot around the mine near Frenštát with people, a goat and donkeys as an auteur report at FAMU. The film is accompanied by harmonica and the author's commentary.
FAMU, Department of Documentary Film (1st…
Empire Builders
Do they control ideology or does ideology control them?
Error
A story of a student who gets lost in a digital world due to procrastination. Film was made as a assignment to use actor in animation film. Stop motion with hand-drawn animation effectively tell the story.
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…
Eternal Life
Report on eternality between the walls, among the walls, as well as inside the walls of the Prague National Museum, accompanied by the comments of the curators and the larder beetles. A reportage on the form and changes…
Every Quilted Bit
Petr Soukup is a contemporary Czech poet and song-writer who has selected Instagram and stand-ups as his main channels of communication, where he turns his view on life and millennial culture into short gags and…
Exhausted Sun
A mysterious cinematic poem about remembering a long-lost summer afternoon. Disturbing abstract details of natural elements permeate the metaphor of a children's game, passing in a contemplative vision of the spiritual…
Fighting the Brain
A threefold portrait, presenting the reality within the limits of a subjective view, puts together the lives of an increasingly more remote writer and musician; a hacker, dreaming his dream of transformation into a…
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…
Fluid life
Mini portrait of one place - atmosphere of solitude in the middle of the city - life change of one woman - water as an element. Short film poem flowing like a river with which our main character learns and learned to…
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,…
Heaven in the Underground
A story of secretly ordained catholic bishops and priests during the 1970s "normalization" era when the church faced the threat of being controlled by the Czech state or even the State Security. A life story of Fridolín…
Hell for Leather
Forth-year students of the Alternative Theatre at Prague Theatre Academy together Jana Počtová, a documentary filmmaking student, decided to take part in an experiment. They spent five days locked in the Řetízek Theatre…
Here and Now / Peace with the Brain
A portrait of the minds of three Czech and Slovak scientists (material physicist, cognitive scientist and researcher in the field of robotics), who are currently engaged in meditation. A film about the limits of…
I Can See You in Words That I Cannot See
A portrayal? A sketch? And who is portraying who here? A quest for the Czech experimental writer, translator and poet Bohumila Grögerová; a quest in words that we cannot see, and inner motion that is hardly visible to…
I Don't Know
Nóra and Olivér have been active members of the occupation of the university building as part of protesting against the new managment of it. The film presents them after the occupation ended, preparing for an online…
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…
Images of the Outer World
Happines. Sadness. A man. Life. A computer programme generates dozens of password images per second. The cell phone records the outside world into short clips. Their visual collage is accompanied by a voice-over – an…
Intention to Enrich a Pure Mechanistical World
Prof. Petr Vopěnka is a worldwide famous Czech mathematician, author of many books concerning history of Math, geometry above all. He is an original thinker, connecting mathematics with philosophy. He has become…
The Intruder
A film portrait of a Russian woman Raja who in the 1970s settled down in a small town in North Bohemia. She simply wanted to live a happy and quiet life... It did not really cross her mind that she might have been…
It's all fun and games until
The film deals with the topic of police repression in CR, what form it can take and mainly what impacts it has on those who take on the role of the state and take steps to solve the global climate crisis. In it the…
Jan's Return from His Paris Exile to Prague in the Summer 2003 /Jan Vladislav/
Jan Vladislav, Czech poet and author, signatory of Charter 77, publisher of the samizdat manuscript series Kvart, and translator of Dante, Shakespeare, Michaux and Eliot, was forced into exile in France in 1981 by the…
Jarmila Is Home for Good!
She spent her life dancing and, as she says with a smile, she would like to dance till the very end. Jarmila still has a lot of energy and shares it with others daily. However she decided to leave the US after 28 years…
Kalado
“There are many teachings in the world – karate, aikido, tai chi, yoga. But none teach you purification. Only kalado,” says the film’s protagonist, the performance artist Sai Kijima. As the viewer listens to his…
Karel Lampa
Karel Lampa - forty year old former gay prostitute in the theatre play of his life. Documentary portrait of a man, whose life was always influenced by theatre and his relationship with father Rudolf Lampa – famous…
The Kids in Wonderland
Believing in God is great. The director carries out a social probe into the roots of young charismatics in his hometown in Slovakia. Pop songs, ecstasy-like states, and modern merchandising all target youth. What do…
Kytlice, Zimmer Frei
Kytlice, Zimmer Frei explores the absurd history of Central Europe through the little village of Kytlice in former Sudetenland, situated on the Northern border of the Czech Republic. The film introduces Luděk Farkáš, a…
The Last 'V' of Vaclav Havel
A short film shot at the state funeral of Václav Havel during which the leaving statesman comments his own memorial service for the final time. For he has nothing more to lose he can finally say things without restraint…
Life to a Killed Frog!
“Nature cannot be invented, it must be born and then attempt to become stronger. Nature cannot be abolished by an act of thinking, but by killing. Nature is mutable, a relationship between birth and death. This…
The Little One
A Vietnamese girl grows up in a European town. As she gets used to what it means to be strange and at home at the same time, her family decides to leave back for Vietnam.
llllllIIIIl
The film’s title can be seen as an anti-captcha, a text that is easily machine-read but difficult for people to understand. Working in the style of a documentary essay, the film considers the problem of the autocracy of…
llllllIIIl
Quasi-interactive dystopic sci-fi documentary meta comedy about the thrills of behavioral marketing, technological determinism and wannabe alive machines that might likely end all human life as we know it.
Lucie Is Already in Bed
A documentary portraying a young woman trying to find and define issues concerning her unstable marriage. Using an expressive style, the film explores extremely intimate areas of married life. Although the issues…
Manual on How to Create a Terrorist
In the Basque region of Navarra, the director - a stranger - stops passers by next to pieces of political graffiti, letting them explain what they mean and why they were painted. A feature-length documentary about…
Message From Dement
Dement is simply a punker. He owns a music club in Sao Paolo, which makes him an unofficial boss of the local Antifa. The situation has been getting worse after the death of his best friend Johni, who was killed in an…
Midnight
An essay on the sources of light, the meaning of darkness and light pollution, with several layers of interwoven meaning. In one of them, the author describes her experiences during an experiment in which she was shut…
Midsummer Night's Dream
This film by Radek Tůma is a modern lyrical experiment that is fascinating for its formal immediacy and spontaneous expressions of joy as it emphasizes the sensual aspects of life and a return to nature. Tůma's film is…
MÍR: Hundred Years of Revolution
A small association in Iceland called MÍR was founded in 1950 to strengthen the cultural relation between Iceland and the Soviet Union. Three decades after the fall of the Iron Curtain the association keeps the…
MRG (The Marriage of Robert and Gábina)
A married couple. He is rich and works to be able to afford expensive cars. She works in the internet erotic industry to improve her body image. He is obsessed with luxury and himself, she likes small things.
Mr. Mireček
Mr Mirecek, mysterious visit and a little bit of homespun philosophy. Super 8 mm film about loneliness. In colour and with music.
The Neighbours
At the very end of small village in the middle of Czech Republic is constitutional institutions over a hundred years old, which is used as a home care for mentally ill women. Fifteen years ago new director was called to…
Never Been Better
People know very little about present-day situation of Bosnia and Herzegovina even though it has almost all model examples for various social and political problems. Never Been Better is a satirical and personal insight…
On the Other Track
Marie Horníková aka Majka is a fifty-year old vendor of the Novy Prostor magazine (equivalent to Big Issue) at the main train station. A confident ballet dancer with a duck-like walk and coarse voice. Neither a homeless…
Pangolin
In January 2020, Prague and Taipei officially became sister cities, and Taipei gave Prague a gift – a pangolin. This documentary was made before the formal signing of the contract. In the film, the director works to…
Pavel
Pavel’s childhood was strongly influenced by restitution of a huge homestead. Currently he’s thirty six years old and remained the only member of the family with will and vision to bring new life to the decaying farm.…
Permafrost
Can a child save the world if no one listens to him? The ninth birthday celebration becomes a struggle for a bare life. The parable of Global Warming. Catastrophe. (FAMU/ director's text)
Porodní plán
What does childbirth look like? How can it affect the baby's life? And how does it affect the life of the woman? What are the current conditions in this country under which we bring children into this world? In this…
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.
Puddles, I Don’t Know
Dry ground, gravel, cracks in the asphalt, a look into a microscope, and a weather map as parts of an associative string based on the theme of waiting for the rain. The visual poem shows the soil in close-ups, adding…
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…
Republic of Jagr
Why Czechs have chosen Jaromi Jagr, a nation wide heroe and our the best ice-hockey player, as thier God?
Roma Boys, the Love Story
The film explores the taboo subject of homosexuality within the Roma community through the personal story of a Roma activist who happens to be gay. Though his job has earned him respect among his peers, by coming out…
Rules of the Game - Delimitation of Space
The project entitled Rules of the Game developed into a series of institutional portraits. The first part Defining the Space takes place during the NATO Summit in Prague in 2002. It deals with the specificity of such a…
Sanctity Growers
The unique group of "The Producers of Sacrament" that was established to support the general development of holiness is quite bizarre. Adam Olha's film is an attempt to enter the movement, to describe the rules that…
Searching for a Dream
There is one telephone in the refugee camp in Gabcikovo, Slovakia. The story of the film tells about the relationship between refugees accomodated in the camp and the telephone. Sometimes it gives them hope, sometimes…
She's not mine
The documentary film She's not mine follows through two parallel narratives: diary-like entries that focus on the personal experience of the disease and the conversations she has with two other women who suffer from…
Sikora. A Small Personal Marketing Epic.
According to the dominant liberal idea each is responsible for his own fate. In the post-industrial era man is a commodity and to shape his own fate means to move between the poles of sell yourself – don’t sell yourself…
The Skull Man
A film about teeth, grave robbing and the joy of life.
Solos for Members of Parliament
Twenty-one politicians reply to the question of how they view the Czech Republic’s future. The survey, built on the democratic principles of equality and freedom of speech, provides the same conditions for all of the…
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.
Story of an Unborn Child
"I am an unborn child. I wasn't born to my parents."
Tears of Steel: Vladimír Stehlík Meets Lubomír Krystlík
A documentary comedy about an era of high hopes and even greater disillusions, about the wild Czech journey to capitalism, about a steep rise and deep fall. Also, a film about the art of aging and the ways of dealing…
That Old Lizard
When Zdenka Tomášková was 13 years old, she met poet Petr Bezruč for the first time. At the age of 16, she became his secretary of her own accord. After his death, she has not talked about him for 40 years. Now at the…
THE CIRCLE – A Portrait of a Demonstration
Portrait of one demonstration in Litvínov that ended up with a fight on the streets.This was break-through in the Czech history, because local people marched against the ghetto of gypsies for the first time along with…
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…
This Kind of Spring Has Never Been Yet
This personal essay relates the perception of space to the mental universe of screenwriter and director Pavel Juráček who found his “truly ideal place” in the town of Příbram. The sensitive combination of journal…
TON - Work instruction
Ton je významná česká nábytkářská firma, která je proslulá především svými židlemi. Film odkrývá tajemství dřeva a zhudebňuje postup jeho zpracování.
To Rule, to Work, to Earn, to Pray, to Collapse
According to leading Czech Egyptologist, professor Miroslav Bárta, there are increasing signs of impending collapse of our society. On the background of his thoughts, we watch documentary short stories that ask, whether…
True or False
A documentary collage about recent Sino-Czech relations combining the esthetics of TV reels, advertising, old and new propaganda videos, documentary shots creating all together an absurd political grotesque.
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…
Ultramarine
The audio-visual poem tells the story of the Scottish mythological figure - the selkie - driven from the depths of the ocean to land, from which she longs to return and merge once again with the sea. The juxtaposition…
Village B.
A documentary film about Blšany - the world's smallest village with a premiere league soccer team, located in Central Bohemia - consists of two different views. One of them is the view of the filmmakers, the other one…
Window an Eye of Heart, Into an Eye Window of, a Soul
Abroad a human perception is, ... again the human perception, but the point of view determinate its subsequent interpretation. The number of people, the number of diferent results for one particular situation. The human…
Women of Horses
The Women of Horses is dealing with the relationship between humans and their horses. Using stories of three selected women we try to come to the general metaphor of human destiny.
Zagovory
There are various types of zagovory, Slavic word magic, which has its tradition mainly in Eastern Europe. This short movie works with the motifs of Slavic folklore, body, and natural scenery and transforms their…