FAMU Presents

An immersion into a world where death for one's country is considered the greatest act of self-sacrifice. The Russian-born director naively thought he had escaped such a world.

The film captures the workings and sheer joy of existence as such of a football team from Litoměřice FK Třeboutice, which is last in the lowest football league and therefore last in the in the country.

A room full of bubbling aquariums. Hundreds of fish with only glass separating them from people. The film is a probe into the lives of a married couple of aquarists who have dedicated their lives to fish and to each other. Aquaristics as a job that never ends. In my film, I observe how an aquarium exchange works, where fish are bought and sold, and I think about how deep a relationship can be with both fish and another person.

The author explores what the experience of (not) using cameras in police work can tell us about the limits of documentary filmmaking. To answer this question, the viewer is offered a glimpse into the darkness with which each film begins and ends.

The film is an exercise of the first year of the Department of Documentary Filmmaking at FAMU.

A view of a divided eastern Slovak village. A story about them, about us and about fire.

In my film, I try to understand what it's like to be a mom, but not to be where moms are, somewhere at home with their kids. So I ask my distant aunt, who went to Banat for four years, what it was like. How did she cope with the pressures of her surroundings, the homesickness and all the hard and beautiful things that surrounded her decision. I visit the place where she lived and reflect on what I would have done myself.

Edek lives with his wife and dog in a house by the forest. Because of his rapidly deteriorating eyesight and his love of music, he decides to teach his dog to sing.

The Berounka River is flowing, a boat is sailing, Vladimir is driving the boat, before, Ota's uncle Prošek was driving the boat. The Berounka swims, nothing changes.

The film is an exercise of the first year of the Department of Documentary Filmmaking at FAMU.