Famu Filmes

Jakub, The Old Believers, and Piemule are three documentaries about forgotten people by director Jana Sevciková. All three are distributed on...

A zoologist and a biochemist go out into an oilfield with a cameraman and filmmaker to observe and study the elusive oil gobblers.

The young Marta has made a break in her medical education to fully invest in her career as a model. We follow her for a day in her life, almost...

The initiation of a young Jewish child into Guernica's world.

Symbols and political analogies abound in this dramatically frustrating first work by a recent film-school graduate. In the story, Vojtech has...

A student work by Jiří Menzel, filmed during his second year at the FAMU film school. Views of old Prague and its tenement buildings,...

In this six-minute short, a man’s attempt to burgle a home is interrupted by a child.

Family visit turns wild.

A character from a musical film falls into the real world in this short, predating similar films by Woody Allen (The Purple Rose of Cairo) and...

Journalist learns about battle in a small village.

Jakubisko’s graduation work which examines the lives of young people on the eve of their joining the army for national service.

Day in the life of teenagers.

In a series of juxtaposed images and sounds, Jaromil Jireš comments on the tragic premature death of thousands as well as their posterity due...

Short musical comedy from Tomas Vorel.