Famu Movies

Family visit turns wild.

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

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

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

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 color puppet film based on the famous ballad of K. J. Erben "Aquarius".

A film about filmmaking.

The new pub patron is advised to take a stew. He asks for its recipe from the hostess, but she refuses. Then he sneaks into the kitchen and peeks...

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

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

Final train station turnes out to be something much more different...

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...

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

Young Eugene from the provinces travels to Prague in search of fame. Once there he gets an offer to write engagé lyrics for pop songs...