100 Days
Life is going on, people work and have children, out of love or out of lack of other motivation in life. As there is no God, the only certitude is 24 hours open Tesco hypermarket. 40 years ago, Apollo 11 landed on the…
59/184/84
"59/184/84" is a film dating ad of a permanently unhappy man waiting for life to start. Living an empty life of a loner, he nurtures the idea that something must happen; that destiny must grant him an ideal wife…
Alda
The screenplay for this film is based on the writings of a person suffering from the Alzheimer's disease. The story of Mrs. O. is told through a combination of documentary film footage and her own videos from a hand…
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…
Crisis Tourism Office
Muhammad Abu Bakr Müller is an Austrian artist, performer and so-called artterrorist. He was born as Bernhard Müller in 1952 in Austria. Twenty-eight years later, he was "reborn" in Turkey as Muhammad Abu Bakr.…
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…
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…
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…
My Body's Body
Film mediates certain kind of mental space of timelessness. At the edge somewhere unfolds maternal body. Images and sounds of the first months after author gave birth to her children constitutes film's distinctive…
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…
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…
Story of an Unborn Child
"I am an unborn child. I wasn't born to my parents."
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…
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.