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FAMU ~ UMPRUM

Sugar and salt
Adam Martinec

A group of friends arrives at a forbidden and a secluded place somewhere near Krnov in the Sudetenland mountains. They've come here to celebrate their friendship as every previous years. Kájíček, Toník, Drobek a.k.a. Bonbon, Dalík, Pepa and a lambkin called Bohunka. This year is different from the others. Staňa's not here.

The individual nothing, the entirety everything
Ludvík Otevřel

100 years of Sokol, 120 meters of film

The Night of the Agama
Tomáš Janáček

Prague, a bus station on a winter night. Radka, together with her little daughter, a suitcase on wheels and a gym bag, gets off a bus. Down the streets of the same city, Ludek is taking his time going home, aware that nobody is waiting for him there. For a couple of hours before dawn, what was meant to be a fateful connection with one purpose only might resemble a family. The Night of the Agama is about an encounter of people who rely on others' help, yet they must primarily help themselves.

Days off
Filip Blažek

Too close but too far?! Two neighbours in the noise of building work, the hum of television sets and hushed up feelings.

Importance of everybody
Francesco Montagner

A Trip to the Moon
Vojtěch Kunc

A strange film about a dreamy trip of two young people, driving through the Czech countryside, heading to the Moon. A road-movie about spaceflights and about going through long distances in short time.

Me, Flamingo
Elvira Dul‘skaya

Anna is a young artist, studying UMPRUM in Prague. She has one little problem with her work - she cannot tell even one word about it. It is not because she is a foreigner in Czechia. She cannot speak about her ideas in any language, cannot express herself by words. Her strange art is the only way of communication, where she feels herself comfortable, but she is not able to defend her ideas, so she feels unconfident about it. Anna must tell something about it. Or not? May be non-verbal way of communication in art is enough? Or she will have to explain her works?

JailBreak
Duong Viet Anh

Dance movie, that points to the current situation of pollution and unnecessary overwhelming amount of the material around us, that limits us from perception and even movement.

Blue Squad
Ondřej Nuslauer

Darkness and heavy air. Routine mission of a mining rescue service portrays an unprecedented and physically demanding journey to the injured. A young member of the rescue team will experience first hand all the challenges common to this line of work.

Release
Sasha Stelchenko

Iva, mother of two, is unhappy in her marriage to Marek. Once a successful entrepreneur working abroad, he is now in prison. After years of his constant absence in the family, Iva finally decides to get a divorce. She comes for a conjugal visit to tell him.

Guerilla Gardening
Zdena Sýkorová

For a few flowers at the Vltavská station, the revolting elderly lady violates the rules. She finds a soul mate and together they rock it big time. This leads to a conflict with the guard ...

The collective
Greta Stocklassa

Every collective has its own rules and laws, but how does it act in questions outside of these guidelines, such as ethics and morality? What happens, when people have different interpretations of such? In this allegory a Scouting division is facing a moral dilemma, which exceeds the limits of a children's game.

Metro
Ludvík Otevřel

Who guards the guard?

Off with her head
Elisa Colette Chéradame

An young moroccan obliged to be anywhere but her home, paradoxically deal with uprooting while singing isolated on the stage.

Blooming
Dora Šustić

Two sisters, Alma (11) and Lila (6), enjoy their playful time together, having a bath. One evening, faced with a strange sensation, Alma experiences the beginning of a transformation from a child to a girl: she gets her first period. At first ignoring it, Alma deals with blood during the night, but is discovered by Lila. In panic, she asks Lila to keep a secret, but little Lila misunderstands it for sickness, thinking her sister is dying.

Moss ball
Anežka Horová

The mossball is one of the lesser known beautiful creatures of the sea. This postmodern documentary from the Center of audiovisual studies unravels it's role in our society. It's a perfectly cute plush green ball which can easily replace a pet.

Tube
Martin Jeřábek

Betty is a young rural girl dealing with unexpecting pregnancy. Father of the child is her boyfried Michal. They just have started to live together, but Betty is not sure if she wants to have a baby with him.

Elderpower
Hannah Saleh

Miloš Koutecký started working at National Theatre right after high school. He keeps taking care about the props despite the fact he could already retire. But since he was always passionate about his job, he still works there. One of the reasons can be his hobby – to dress up every visitor into costume and take a photo of her and him. Short documentary shows the beauty of old things and also a pleasure one can find in his profession...

CABARET CINEMA

Aquanaut
Tomáš Kotas

Rostislav Vítek is a 42 year old long distance swimmer with about 60 000 kilometres in his shoulders. In the documentary Aquanaut he shares moments from his career, which is also his life journey. Dark places that were brought to him by open water made him ice-cold calm and gave him strong, hardened soul.

Empire builders
Andran Abramjan

The docufiction essay portrays self-taught but ambitious right-wing populists who long to play a high-stakes game. Through the character of a propagandist cinematographer and movie freak, the film follows the builders of a Czech local movement agitating against Islam and immigration in a country which refuses to accept refugees and where no refugees come.

The Act of Devouring
Emir Ziyalar

A tortured man is forced to repeat a grim task in 1940’s Czechoslovakia. Over time, he starts to fail his task and delves into working on his grotesque secret instead. The fear of the secret being exposed slowly becomes unbearable.

Babylon
Sheida Sheikhha

Babylon is a psychological thriller told through a series of therapy sessions in which a young girl discusses her life with her manipulative and controlling mother and yet, the images we see show a slightly different scenario; as these sessions progress, her struggle for freedom increases while the gap between the truth and her depiction of events decreases.

Room number 16
Vladimir Vladimirov

Valentin is a young boy who had experienced sexual harassment by his father who gets accidentally killed by Valentin in order to escape. As an under age murderer, Valentin is in a reformatory school where becomes one of many numbers and gets bullied, so to get protected he has to play the game of the principal.

It's nothing
Sheida Sheikhha

Lucia and Adam are in an unhealthy relationship. They rarely communicate and, when they do, it's with thinly veiled aggression and anger. Things seem to pile up until, one day, Adam reaches his breaking point; forcing Lucia into making a difficult choice and potentially reconsidering her relationship.

Behind the curtain
Melanya Hamasyan

Behind the Curtain is a poetic drama about a theater stage manager, Eva, who has recently lost her son yet needs to go about her daily work in the theater. Matěj, a novice actor in the theater group, becomes another obstacle to her work, as he is overcome by stage fright and the inability to distinguish between reality and surreality – between himself and the role his is playing, between backstage and stage. At first, Eva empathizes with the troubled actor, seeing in him a reminiscence of her lost son and as a result acts with maternal compassion. However, Matěj unravels further and refuses to follow her instructions as well as the forceful guidance of a chorus of fellow actors.

Garage
Matěj Piňos

In August 2017 Zdenek H. kidnapped a couple of teenagers and imprisoned them in the garage. The visual aspect of the film along with the audio dramaturgy reflects their situation. The only way out is in their minds…

Bloody Fairy Tales
Tereza Kovandová

Five classical fairy tales, recreated in an unreasonably violent way. Keep away from children. They might like it. Red riding hood, Cinderella or Beauty and the Beast. Those and two more famous stories twisted into one minute episodes filled with dark humor, cynicism, and also a bit of modernization. Unpredictable storylines, love, sex, drugs and lack of happy ends. Fairy tales for the new millennium.

The Edge of the Forest
Adam Kratochvíl

A middle-aged policeman Pavel was posted to a border town at the foot of the mountains. He fully gave in to his frustration as he soon realized that no prospect of promising future awaits him there. At the same time, he is beset with the stereotype of local life as well as his own. Until he’s allocated an apartment, he’s staying in a mountain guest house with his pregnant fiancée Anna. The timelessness of the land and Pavel’s life is interrupted by the arrival of a strange couple of young lovers that grab Pavel’s attention at dinner and invoke in him feelings of fascination and suspicion. Pavel is awake all night and tries to find out as much as he can about the young couple. Subsequently, he becomes a witness to the breakdown of their relationship, a tragic event and learns a surprising fact about the couple. The film is an adaptation of a short story of the same name by an Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard.

The Next Stop
Dominik György

A family life of a loving mother and her mentally disabled son became a daily struggle with the only one aim - to survive. She would do anything for her son who lives in his own fantasy world and will never grow up, but there is not much to do. Only a bus driver role play offers a short escape from a daily routine... Will be The Next Stop their final destination?

Requiem 8“ moll
Vojtěch Dvořák

A short film inspired by so-called Marlow movies. Murder, police and spiders in a cocktail that you like so much. Welcome to the crime scene.

The Collector
Murat Emkuzhev

A man, captured and tortured by mafia, encounters a mysterious being - the collector, who offers him a way to escape. But in truth all the collector wants is to add another slaughter to his collection.

Far from eyes
Grégory Montaldo

A snowy morning in a south Moravia farm. We follow Zdeněk and his pig, a day of slaughtering.

FAMU MEETS VŠMU

Pris

ROLE

Dukla

Good Times Only

FAMU ~ UMPRUM

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But I’m also happy
Martin Repka

Father from a village is going into the city to visit his son. Instead of meeting him, he meets his girlfriend. A girl he has never seen nor knew about. This film is a portrait of a father, who has lost contact with his son and now he is timidly trying to recover it.

Mt. Human
Jan Hecht

A doctor who is working in a Czech regional hospital has just turned forty and she feels like this is her last opportunity to move forward in her life. However, her ambitions to succeed in nearby Germany were encountered by her new colleagues in a small hospital where she started working and most importantly by her family. Film Mt. Human shows the insights of the Czech healthcare system which is facing a crisis of doctors leaving abroad.

Persephone
Nelisa Alcalde

On a Sunday morning, young Marie is preparing for the Holy Communion ceremony, dressing with the help of her mother. While having breakfast and waiting for her tea, Marie is pulled into a mysterious world of her fantasy, triggered by the vibrant red colour of the tea.

Apart
Diana Cam Van Nguyen

This animated documentary introduces 3 friends who share the same experience - when they were teenagers, one of their parents died. This film explore how they feel before and after this event. They tell us about their experiences - from the rejection to the anger and finally to the acceptance. This film is a portrait of young people, who had to grown up too soon.

Sheep Herding
Zdena Sýkorová

If you are capable of handeling a dog, you are capable of handeling the whole herd. You can compete and your dog might become a world champion. Here it is, about the new sport discipline, sheep herding.

Stillleben
Anja Gravs

Main character of this thriller with elements of magical realism is Filip. His job is simple, to take the truck from one point to another. He takes the money and he's not asking any questions. But after crossing the borders, something goes horribly wrong.

Crossing the line
Vojtěch Novotný

Šumava. 1951. A group of Czechoslovaks journeys through the woods with the hopes of crossing the border, therefore attaining their freedom from the communist regime.

Aktiv
Jan Rousek

The metaphor for last days of communist Czechoslovakia.

God’s Gift
Emir Ziyalar

A film crew attempts to shoot a documentary in an abandoned town in Czech Republic. The name of the town is ironically Boží Dar (God's Gift).

FAMU: The Beginning
Jakub Jelínek

A documentary film about a fight for a new dean of FAMU.

On the Edge
Barbora Chalupová

Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

Woo – Hoo!
David Stumpf

Alcohol, boobs, despair. And in the middle of it a perfect horse love story.

Big Sleep
Nikola Klinger

Film about young girl's bad dreams and about things you can still believe today.

BITING DOGS
Karolína Čejková

A film about a man who turned his despair into a fetish.

Central Bus Station
Tomáš Elšík

The architects' plans for Central Bus Station to swallow visitors has turned into an endless maze of corridors. Once a gift to the citizens of Tel Aviv now serves to the immigrants. Yonathan has been a guide there for 17 years and is able to show the other side of the station's significance to those who walk with him. Yonathan knows that the purpose of going down to the building is to find not only himself, but also a society that harbours its values, protects its original traditions and wants to defend its home.

Metro
Lubomír Ballek

This film is a visual study of Prague's underground and can be considered a short city symphony. The film celebrates the architecture, light play, and genius loci of Prague's underground system.

Zaspać
Tomáš Kotas

Zaspać is fragmented poetic movie based on a story about gypsy grandmother that told stories to children about sleep and death. She told them about other worlds that are accompanying us in our present, past and also take us to world that we've never been at.

Once it’s over
Vojtěch Petřina

Jakub works as a luxury cosmetics salesman and every year he goes to a post-apocalyptic festival, where he can spend 3 days in a Mad Max world. The festival is an opportunity to escape reality, have some fun while making costumes, but it is also a hollow play inspired by a cult movie.

Close Areas
Zuzana Lazarová

Art and thus artistic and gallery activities became for me an indifferent labyrinth of unfulfilled expectations, a trap for a spectacle. So, as I had no other choice, I returned back to what I still feel like doing. To looking for new appellations for contexts and experience one can hardly express otherwise than by the language of a poem. Each text by a curator was to give one poem.

Cycles
Jan Chajewski, Veronika Vaculíková

The film works in many layers, researching contrasts between performativity and placement in reality and contrasts in the monumental setting versus the vulnerability of coming out of the cocoon. The film built up the dramaturgy of how you feel reinventing yourself with knowledge.

Narkissós
Nora Štrbová

Short animated puppet probe into endless self-love, freely drawing on the ancient myth of Narcissus. Whoever wants to love others needs to (after) love each other

Synchronized swimming
Zdena Sýkorová

Above water, on water, below water, connected. From inside out, from outside in. Unified. Regularly, subtly, in one they are together. Repetitive kaleidoscopic patterns of Neptune aquabels.

Journey of dance
Adéla Márová

Traveling around Georgia for the beauty of nature, meeting with local people and finding inspiration for dancing.

Conglomerate Eternity

24
Bára Anna Stejskalová

Wake up! You are 24 now. How is it looking into the mirror? Who are you gonna be today? You have got so much work, but can’t stop thinking about sex? Are you just desperately trying to fit in? Does it make you depressed? Well…welcome to the life of the Pink – The Red – The Blue – the Turquoise and the Yellow one, heroines of 24, the movie.

Brothers
Michal Kováč

Two brothers are bringing iron scrap to a scrapyard to make some extra coins and they are treated unjustly. The older brother takes offence and breaks a window, they get into trouble and the older brother manages to escape while the younger one doesn’t.

Where my home is?
Manri Kim

In Prague, when a Turkish man is working in a Turkish restaurant, there’s a demonstration outside on Wenceslas Square. One protester customer forgets to take his placard, the Turkish runs into the demonstrators to return it to him.

Transition
Vojtěch Dvořák

Short movie about a boy and his guide on the border of two worlds.

There is no direction
Václav Pavlíček

We are in a man-made landscape. We watch a bunch of marching people doing the same moves. They are all dressed equally, and their overall look suggests that there is no place for someone to make a distinction. The group stops. They hold their hands. Their movement is synchronized. Suddenly, however, one man in the group stops repeating the movements of others. As if he woke up…

Greenhorn
Marin Jeřábek

The group of the dudes is coming to the party in the nearby village. The plan is clear. Enjoy a lot of fun for no money and maybe pick up some chicks.

How To Make a Film
Martin Janoušek

In today’s modern times when a film material loses its old potential is this paraphrase of old instructional films from 50s and 60s a tribute to the obsolete way of shooting. The film is playing with its own form and content. Its moderator Milan Cyroň guides the audience through the film production process itself from writing a script through filming on a set to distribution. It contains typical aspects of old instructional films and some film jokes.

CINERGY & FAMUFEST - Our madness

Lukas Landa

Purplefox Town

Rescue

HOW TO DO PITCHING

FAMU ~ UMPRUM

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Summer 2006
Farah Abou Kharroub

Beirut is a city that witnessed several wars throughout the years. A connection happened between Farah and her father after filming different events from the Lebanese war, and this connection turned out to be a healing process from the trauma that the war caused them.

My unknown soldier
Anna Kryvenko

How does it feel to become an occupier without your own intentions? Using known as well as never published archival materials from the whole Europe and Russia we tell a family story of the director Anna Kryvenko about how the high politics destroys the lives of ordinary people.

SERIAL KILLER

MASTERCLASS WITH JAN PAVLACKÝ: Director for hire

The Double Life of David Mayer
Eilat Ben Eliyahu

David struggles to shape his Jewish identity amidst a faith crisis.

Portrait of Lubor D
Matěj Piňos

Imprint of Lubor Dohnal`s world in film material.

Our Number Eight
Petr Mischinger

This animated documentary was created to celebrate the 100th anniversary of our independence. The number 8 has often played an important role in our lives. This is OUR NUMBER EIGHT.

Inspection
Helena Fikerová

A short informative documentary about what goes on with an airplane when it is not in the air.

It's worth it
Tomáš Kotas

Do not let the political ignorance to disappoint ourselves. We don’t forget.

The Bark Beetle of Šumava
Dimitri Martin Genaudeau

In the Šumava National Park, in the south of the Czech Republic, a small invasive insect, the bark beetle, thrives in the spruce wood, causing severe damage to the forest since the early 2000s. The extent of the destruction caused by the insect led to a violent controversy in 2011 between the administration of the park and several environmental organizations. In the middle of this titanic fight, the beetle gathers his forces and struggles for his survival…

This kind of spring has never been yet
Tereza Kozáková

This kind of spring has never been yet is based on the diaries of the screenwriter and director Pavel Juráček. The movie is about a place in his native city Příbram, which he wrote in his diary as "a really perfect place". So I'm going to Příbram to find this place, especially the impression Juráček mentioned. The essence of the place that is mirrored in Juráček's future films is making a parallel to the political situation of the 60s in Czechoslovakia.

Thor Be Praised
David Payne

A documentary film about the colourful social life of modern Czech Vikings.

Sun will not hurt you by day
Martin Repka

Few summer days of a Slovak family living in old house near the forest. At the end of these days, the family will not be the same as it was before. This film is an intimate observation of children leaving the house. Sun will not hurt you by day was made from everyday observation of this unusual event, when two of my older sisters were getting married in just one week, after they spent their whole life in one room together. The fact that I am thier brother allowed me to break through most intimate spheres of our family with the camera.

CLOSING CEREMONY

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Humdrum Lighthouse

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