26th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
FAMU Presents
FAMU presents a selection of the most remarkable documentaries that have been produced over the past year in various academy departments.

A journey from the big world to a lovely place, from the lovely place into a little hut, from the little hut deep into oneself.(FAMU)
Chýše
Ludmila Cimbůrková
Czech Republic / 2021 / 4 min.
section: FAMU Presents

Rodinný tón
Adéla Kaiserová
Czech Republic / 2021 / 2 min.
section: FAMU Presents

“I dreamt about a house in which I could only walk up. The higher I got, the larger and more spacious the rooms were. The storeys were stripped of anything unnecessary, which was replaced by functionality. In the end, all that was left was me. Me and an emptiness without human dimension. And? Luckily, it was just a dream…” (FAMU)
Sen
Jakub Kuthan
Czech Republic / 3 min.
section: FAMU Presents

A little girls’ playing with the big world reflects the connection between the world, phenomena and events. And a child that, perhaps, is also a god. (FAMU)
Letuchini
Šimona Müllerová
Czech Republic / 2021 / 2 min.
section: FAMU Presents

Is Covid to blame for the decline of village community life, or is it a universal phenomenon? Last year in the village of Vrhaveč in the Bohemian Forest, a community life full of traditions died out. Can a local band bring it back, or will their determination bring joy only to themselves? (FAMU)
Místní hlášení
Adéla Kaiserová
Czech Republic / 2021 / 7 min.
section: FAMU Presents

The filmmaker visits the Moravian villages hit by the 2021 tornado not in search of tabloid sensationalism but in an attempt at capturing the changed mental state of their inhabitants, while asking whether the catastrophe presented the locals with a transcendental experience. (FAMU)
Ohromná síla úžasná
Šimona Müllerová
Czech Republic / 2021 / 8 min.
section: FAMU Presents

Switchman Jiří has been waiting for a train for 26 years. A poetic reportage from a railway line overgrown with trees even though it has not been decommissioned; it is just temporarily out of service. (FAMU)
Pořád ho ještě slyším
Jakub Kuthan
Czech Republic / 2021 / 10 min.
section: FAMU Presents

An artificially made film about the artificially (re)created aurochs, the ancestor to domestic cattle, which is supposed to awaken not only the diversity of the landscape but perhaps also our own forgotten wildness. The film tries to answer the question of what is wild, what is natural, where wildness is an illusion and why we yearn for it so much. (FAMU)
PRATUR: Znovuzrození
Ludmila Cimbůrková
Czech Republic / 2021 / 7 min.
section: FAMU Presents

A film of useless decisions and missed opportunities. Can one identify with something that voluntarily has no identity? A cinematic metaphor for the inability to change. (FAMU)
Pěšci
Jakub Kuthan
Czech Republic / 2021 / 10 min.
section: FAMU Presents

A short film full of security cameras and the filmmaker’s opinions about them. We learn about all the places that little technological eyes are watching us and join the filmmaker as she tries to find out whether there is any way of hiding from them. But experts in the field and a middle-aged Croatian try to explain that her sharply negative stance towards cameras is exaggerated and that there is nothing to fear. Will the viewer begin to fear cameras along with her – even the one used to shoot this film? (FAMU)
Zavřete oči, procházím!
Maja Penčič
Czech Republic / 2021 / 19 min.
section: FAMU Presents

The Covid pandemic cut off senior citizens living in homes from their families. In an attempt at understanding this isolation, the filmmaker decided to spend ten days with her camera locked up with them. In this newfound closeness to old men and women yearning for human contact, she sought out stories and wisdom. After having spent several years volunteering at a rest home and two years after listening to a love story about a nurse and her client, the filmmaker spends eight days in a home for senior citizens. She wants to find out what forms love can take behind the wrinkles. To explore its recent forms, what memories remain, how it can be experienced. And to learn whether it is possible to depart without it or whether it is inevitable. (FAMU)
Příliš staří na lásku
Adéla Kaiserová
Czech Republic / 2021 / 10 min.
section: FAMU Presents

Vanesska, a 13-year-old girl, is getting to know herself again with her new (dis)ability. Through a magical journey towards the depth of acceptance, she becomes who she ought to be. (FAMU/ director's text)
C H R Y S A L I S
Eydís Eir Brynju-Björnsdóttir
Czech Republic / 2021 / 11 min.
section: FAMU Presents

Distance. How far are we able to go, when the mood is thickening? Distance. How far apart are we able to be and yet still be as close as possible? Distance. One round and you are out. (FAMU/ director's note)
D I S T A N C E
Radka Caldová
Czech Republic / 2021 / 5 min.
section: FAMU Presents
World Premiere

A cinematic poem about love, time and making a film. The filmmaker, originally a photographer, tries to show images that are real but that also have one foot in the world of the imagination. (FAMU)
Dear Deer
Šimona Müllerová
Czech Republic / 2021 / 6 min.
section: FAMU Presents

The River is looking for a unknown offender, who is playing with her. Not by a accident, it leads her to the corrupted police officer. The investigation is getting tangled. The River's craziness escalates until she passes away. After the new "old garniture" arrival, the River comes back as a Black water. (FAMU/ director's text)
Flow
Nora Štrbová
Czech Republic / 2021 / 13 min.
section: FAMU Presents
World Premiere

A studio exercise conceived as stylized reconstruction of the Exctinction Rebellion's protest that took place at Zara store, on the Na Příkopě boulevard. Combining acting and an authentic testimony of twenty years old girl Néa, the film aims to reflect the inner states of mind that activists experience during the tough moments of "direct action". (FAMU/ director's text)
Get Dressed in the Name of Law
Mikoláš Arsenjev
Czech Republic / 2021 / 11 min.
section: FAMU Presents
World Premiere

Nóra and Olivér have been active members of the occupation of the university building as part of protesting against the new managment of it. The film presents them after the occupation ended, preparing for an online play. Meanwhile, they have to make a decision whether to keep on resisting or receive their diplomas from the renewed institution. (FAMU/ director's text)
I Don't Know
Márton Simó
9 min.
section: FAMU Presents
World Premiere

Politicaly frustrated masses are looking for somebody to repair all the demages caused by czech prime minister Andrej Babiš and his government, during covid pandemic. Meanwhile the society needs to deal with creeping threat of global warming and for this fight we need a real change – "revolutionary change". (FAMU/ direstor's text)
Ideal Climate for Revolution
Martin Imrich
Czech Republic / 2021 / 19 min.
section: FAMU Presents

The film deals with the topic of police repression in CR, what form it can take and mainly what impacts it has on those who take on the role of the state and take steps to solve the global climate crisis. In it the author draws on her specific personal experience when last autumn she was falsely accused of blocking a coal excavator in the Vršany. (FAMU/ director's text)
It's all fun and games until
Lála Myslíková
Czech Republic / 2021 / 7 min.
section: FAMU Presents

June 2021
Klára Kacířová
Czech Republic / 2021 / 8 min.
section: FAMU Presents

A small association in Iceland called MÍR was founded in 1950 to strengthen the cultural relation between Iceland and the Soviet Union. Three decades after the fall of the Iron Curtain the association keeps the revolution alive with weekly Soviet film screenings. But is it all just nostalgia or do they have a legacy to preserve? (FAMU/ director's text)
MÍR: Hundred Years of Revolution
Haukur Hallsson
Iceland, Czech Republic / 2020 / 21 min.
section: FAMU Presents

Pavel’s childhood was strongly influenced by restitution of a huge homestead. Currently he’s thirty six years old and remained the only member of the family with will and vision to bring new life to the decaying farm. Yet due to property disputes he has no right to do so. The fatal bond with the place makes Pavel question his true identity. (FAMU/ director's text)
Pavel
Mikoláš Arsenjev
Czech Republic / 2021 / 15 min.
section: FAMU Presents
World Premiere

Can a child save the world if no one listens to him? The ninth birthday celebration becomes a struggle for a bare life. The parable of Global Warming. Catastrophe. (FAMU/ director's text)
Permafrost
Jan Šolc
Czech Republic / 2021 / 14 min.
section: FAMU Presents
World Premiere

The documentary film She's not mine follows through two parallel narratives: diary-like entries that focus on the personal experience of the disease and the conversations she has with two other women who suffer from endometriosis, as well as her partner and mother who have been close bystanders through the years. (FAMU/ director's text)
She's not mine
Katarina Zrinka Šarić
Czech Republic / 2021 / 27 min.
section: FAMU Presents
World Premiere

SHITFACE
Michael Jiřinec
Czech Republic / 2021 / 31 min.
section: FAMU Presents
World Premiere

A jumble of fragmented images of a hectic city, through which the filmmaker wanders like a confused animal, trying to live in it as she talks to her mother on the phone. She is looking for things she knows: the river, flowers... but, oops, they’re plastic. People pretending to be civilized emanate a sense of animality. “We can’t hide the animal, so let’s show it in this concrete jungle.” (FAMU)
Welcome to the Jungle
Ludmila Cimbůrková
Czech Republic / 2021 / 7 min.
section: FAMU Presents

A young family decides what to have for dinner. They have to deal with unexpected difficulties while trying to get the right ingredients for the long-awaited pancakes. (FAMU/ director's text)
What's for Dinner?
Maja Górczak
Czech Republic / 2021 / 11 min.
section: FAMU Presents
World Premiere

A peaceful landscape, four seasons and two sheep. Dried slices of bread and a shepherdess from an alternate place, where sheep have changes their roles. Their owners no longer keep them for meat and wool, but only for the peace that emanates from them. The most advanced entities decided to follow the animals. Calm stillness is the new ambition. (FAMU/ director's text)
When I See the Blue Jeep
Anežka Horová
Czech Republic / 2021 / 6 min.
section: FAMU Presents
World Premiere

There are various types of zagovory, Slavic word magic, which has its tradition mainly in Eastern Europe. This short movie works with the motifs of Slavic folklore, body, and natural scenery and transforms their mysterious beauty into comprehensive visuals, supplemented by a voiceover, reading some of the authentic zagovory in Russian. (FAMU/ director's text)
Zagovory
Eliška Lubojatzká
2021 / 5 min.
section: FAMU Presents