Famu Movies

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.

Family visit turns wild.

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

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

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...

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...

A film about filmmaking.

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...

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...

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