🎬 FAMU 80 – Best of (2026)

Jan Svěrák is a Czech film director, screenwriter and producer. He gained international recognition with Kolya (1996), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He frequently collaborates with his father, screenwriter Zdeněk Svěrák, and focuses mainly on comedy and family films.

Jan Němec is a Czech writer and literary critic, known for novels such as Dějiny světla (A History of Light) and Empathy. His prose is marked by an experimental approach to language and narrative. He regularly contributes to Czech cultural media and appears at literary festivals for author readings.

Vladimír Svitáček (1921-2002) was a Czech film director, screenwriter and occasional actor. He co-founded the Laterna magika theatre and helped create the pioneering interactive Kinoautomat at Expo 67 in Montreal. His best-known acting role is Professor Kingsley in Jára Cimrman ležící, spící (1983); despite being effe…

Helena Třeštíková is a Czech documentary film director, member of the European Film Academy, and briefly the Czech Republic's Culture Minister. She resigned from the position in January 2007 after serving less than three weeks.

Woody Vasulka, born Bohuslav Vasulka in 1937 in Brno, is a Czech pioneer of video art and experimental film. He studied at FAMU before emigrating to the United States, where he and his wife Steina Vasulka co-founded the influential New York arts space The Kitchen. His work explores the intersection of image, sound and…

Saša Gedeon is a Czech film director and screenwriter, a graduate of FAMU. He made his mark with the feature debut Indiánské léto (Indian Summer, 1995) and Návrat idiota (Return of the Idiot, 1999), which won recognition at international festivals. His films are known for quiet character studies and an understated nar…