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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

Jan Schmidt and Pavel Juráček turn their attention to the problem of Czechoslovakia's unloved cars in this whimsical documentary short.

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

Short musical comedy from Tomas Vorel.

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...

Young Eva chats with her Yugoslav friend Joca over a glass of wine about everything that connects their countries. Eva’s grandmother recalled...

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