Famu Movies

On a rural farm, a young woman desperate to leave home clashes with her overbearing father.

Czechoslovakia, summer 1968. Charlotte is rushed to hospital following a collapse resulting from a heart defect. The medical verdict is that the only way to save her life is a heart transplant.

They think as Czechs, they speak as Czechs, but they look as Vietnamese. How is the second generation of Vietnamese people in Europe?

The story of a married couple who are visited by an old friend.

The story of two sisters from the Slovak-Hungarian border who, after a long separation, reveal the common moments of their complicated childhood. They return to a bleak landscape and an abandoned hotel, forced to deal with urgent questions of responsibility to...

After a girl gets raped, the only possibility for getting her life back to normal is a memory wipe. But when they meet again, only one of them still remembers the past...

A massive segment of the Sun has broken off and is heading for Earth, whose surface is slowly heating up to an unbearable level. A strange mood pervades a debilitated world: anything could happen, virtually anywhere, without warning. Even in a sleepy town, whe...

Two clerks in a night club, milk, stuffed head of an antelope, voices from afar, homo-erotic tension and the question, if it is possible to extricate from routine and emptiness with the help of a crime. A black and white nightmare in psycho bits.

A surprisingly intimate portrait of how the dream of running one’s own business can take on monstrous contours. Managed by the father of one of the singers, over the course of five years the girl band 5Angels had reached the gates of pop fame. But it is a path...

Thesis film about three friends (director, violinist and a sex-shop owner) who are addicted to computer games.

Like many others, Daniil has decided to leave his native Georgia and move to Prague in search of better pay. Originally a teacher, he finds a job with Ukrainian laborers controlled by a Russian boss called Sergei and thus becomes a cog in the machinery that ta...

A bittersweet summer story about the emotional isolation of two young friends in the closed world of a boarding school in a small spa town. A long-awaited agency arrives in town looking for new faces in the modeling world. A dubious casting call begins, one of...

A district hospital doctor has passed the age of 40 and feels she has one last chance to move on in life. But her ambition to succeed in neighbouring Germany is clashing with the mindset of her colleagues at the small hospital and especially her family.

Anna and Jakub are a young couple on a journey to make friends. Their car breaks down and they are stranded in a small town where they have to spend the night. They stay in a hotel and get to know the locals. As the whole small town prepares for an upcoming me...

In this mockumentary, the European Space Agency forms a team of scientists to craft a message to send to alien civilizations. As they work to compile a comprehensive report on humanity, the team is faced with unexpected challenges, including debates on what sh...

For Tomáš the mine is the centre of his life, along with soccer, his kids and the cosy after-work beer. The 44-year-old has worked as a miner for 21 years, until the mine was closed down for economic reasons. Tomáš then re-trains as a coder in the appropriatel...

Tereza cherishes moments of being the carefree girl she once was. She enjoys time with her boyfriend, but her thoughts drift to fears about raising Karla. She keeps her worlds apart, but one night changes everything. The Tower is a short film about losing ones...

Short animation by Diana Cam Van Nguyen