Famu Movies

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 comple...

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

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

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

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

A run-of-the-mill family is terrorized by strangers dressed in military garb who invade their private realm.

On a sunny afternoon an old man speaks to a laundress about his love for Provence, then a black flag is unfurled outside the town monument: news has a...

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

Her first foray into documentary filmmaking was a short called Green Street (1959),a look at an over-loaded freight train departing from Prague. Thou...

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 Wojciec...

Hrích boha (God's Sin) is Agnieszka Holland's poetic vision of the world as a trap, based on the novel by Isaak Babel.

A short documentary about the production of movie marquee art for cinemas in Prague.

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

Fati Farari, a black man from Africa, is completing his studies in classical piano at the Music Academy of Prague. It's the day before his first solo...