The Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague or FAMU is one of the oldest film schools in Europe. Located in Prague

Prague

Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...

, Czech Republic

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

, FAMU was founded in 1946 as one of three branches of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague

Academy of Performing Arts in Prague

The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague is a university level school of music, dance, drama, film, TV and multi-media studies.- Faculties :*Film and TV School - FAMU*Music Faculty - HAMU*Theatre Faculty - DAMU-Notable alumni:...

. The teaching language at most of programs at FAMU is Czech, but FAMU offers also programs in English: summer workshops, one-year Academy Program, Special Productions - or MFA program Cinema in Digital Media. According to The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter

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weekly, FAMU is the best film school in Europe and No. 7 in the world.

Notable alumni

• Frank Beyer
  Frank Beyer
  Frank Beyer was German film director. In East Germany he was one of the most important film directors, working for the state film monopoly DEFA and directed films that dealt mostly with the Nazi era and contemporary East Germany. His film Traces of Stones was banned for 20 years in 1966 by the...
  
  
• Věra Chytilová
  Vera Chytilová
  Věra Chytilová is an avant-garde Czech film director and pioneer of Czech cinema. Banned by the Czechoslovakian government in the 1960s, she is best known for her Czech New Wave film, Sedmikrásky...
  
  
• Karel Cudlín
  Karel Cudlín
  - Career :Cudlín was born in Prague and started taking photographs in his teens. Borrowing his father's Exakta and supported by his uncle, a photography enthusiast, Cudlín soon started photographing the Roma people of Žižkov, the suburb where he lived...
  
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• Jasmin Dizdar
  Jasmin Dizdar
  Jasmin Dizdar is a Bosnian-British screenwriter, film director and author on cinema. He is known for his film Beautiful People which won an award for the best film in Un Certain Regard category at the Cannes Film Festival.- Biography :As a child Jasmin Dizdar was an award winning short story writer...
  
  
• Miloš Forman
  Miloš Forman
  Jan Tomáš Forman , better known as Miloš Forman , is a Czech-American director, screenwriter, professor, and an emigrant from Czechoslovakia. Two of his films, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus, are among the most celebrated in the history of film, both gaining him the Academy Award for...
  
  
• Rajko Grlić
  Rajko Grlic
  Rajko Grlić is Yugoslav film director and producer from Croatia of Jewish and Serbian decent...
  
  
• Agnieszka Holland
  Agnieszka Holland
  Agnieszka Holland is a Polish film and TV director and screenwriter. Best recognized for her highly political contributions to Polish cinema, Holland is one of Poland's most prominent filmmakers.-Personal life:...
  
  
• Juraj Jakubisko
  Juraj Jakubisko
  Juraj Jakubisko is a Slovak film director. In his movies he managed to catch life's most beautiful colors, unhinge the poetry behind the ordinary and to be ahead of his time without forgetting his roots....
  
  
• Vojtěch Jasný
  Vojtech Jasný
  Vojtěch Jasný is a Czech director who came to prominence in the sixties. He won a Cannes Special Jury Prize for Až přijde kocour/The Cassandra Cat ....
  
  
• Josef Koudelka
  Josef Koudelka
  Josef Koudelka is a Czech photographer.-Biography:Josef Koudelka was born in 1938 in Boskovice, Moravia, town of about 10,000 inhabitants. He began photographing his family and the surroundings with a 6 x 6 Bakelite camera...
  
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• Emir Kusturica
  Emir Kusturica
  Emir Nemanja Kusturica , is a Serbian filmmaker, actor and musician, recognized for several internationally acclaimed feature films...
  
  
• Markéta Luskačová
  Markéta Luskacová
  Markéta Luskačová is a Czech photographer known for her series of photographs taken in Slovakia, Britain and elsewhere. Considered one of the best Czech social photographers to date, since the 1990s she has photographed children in Czech Republic, Slovakia, and also Poland.- Biography :In 1968...
  
   (photographer)
• Goran Marković (film director)
• Jiří Menzel
  Jirí Menzel
  Jiří Menzel is a Czech film director, theatre director, actor, and screenwriter. His films often combine a humanistic view of the world with sarcasm and provocative cinematography...
  
  
• Jan Němec
  Jan Nemec
  Jan Němec is a Czech filmmaker whose most important work dates from the 1960s. Film historian Peter Hames has described him as the "enfant terrible of the Czech New Wave."- Biography :...
  
  
• Goran Paskaljević
  Goran Paskaljevic
  Goran Paskaljević is a Serbian film director. He was raised by his grandparents in Niš, following the divorce of his parents, and 14 years later returned to Belgrade where he worked in his stepfather's cinema....
  
  
• Ivan Passer
  Ivan Passer
  Ivan Passer is a Czech-born film director and screenwriter.A significant figure in the Czech New Wave of the mid-1960s, Passer worked closely with Miloš Forman on many of his films, and directed his first feature in 1965...
  
  
• Josip Knežević
  Josip Knežević
  Josip Knežević is a Croatian international footballer, currently playing for Amkar Perm.-Career:Josip Knežević has started his career in senior professional team of NK Osijek on 2005/2006 at the age of 17. He has regularly played for Croatian national team U-18, U-19, U-20 and U-21, has total 13...
  
  
• Filip Remunda
  Filip Remunda
  Filip Remunda is a Czech film director, cinematographer and producer.-Biography:Filip Remunda graduated at FAMU–documentary directing department in the masterclass of Karel Vachek...
  
  
• Karol Sidon
  Karol Sidon
  Rabbi Karol Efraim Sidon is a Czech Rabbi, writer and playwright. He is the current chief rabbi of the city of Prague and of the Czech Republic.-Life:...
  
  
• Tono Stano
  Tono Stano
  Tono Stano is an art photographer living and working in Prague, Czech Republic.Tono Stano attended the secondary school of applied arts in Bratislava in 1975-79, and then, from 1980-86, the FAMU in Prague . Still during their studies, he and his fellow students Tono Stano (born 24 March 1960 in...
  
  
• Jan Svěrák
  Jan Sverák
  Jan Svěrák is a Czech film director. He is the son of screenwriter and actor Zdeněk Svěrák. He studied documentary filmmaking at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague...
  
  
• Woody Vasulka
  Steina and Woody Vasulka
  Steina Vasulka and Woody Vasulka are pioneers of video art, having practiced in the genre since its early days in the late 1960s....
  
  
• Lordan Zafranović
  Lordan Zafranovic
  Lordan Zafranović is currently "the most controversial Croatian cineaste".-First films:After receiving a degree in literature and visual arts at the University of Split, Zafranović enrolled at the famous FAMU in Prague where he studied film directing and where he eventually graduated in 1981...
  
  
• Sulejman Suki Medencevic
  Sulejman Suki Medencevic
  Sulejman Medencevic is an internationally recognized cinematographer and producer, winner of Best Cinematography Award at 2005 Valencia Festival of Mediterranean Cinema. He went to the National Film School for Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, Yugoslavia and obtained a masters degree in Cinematography...
  
  
• Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason
  Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason
  Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason is a founding member of Icelandic experimental band múm and has been a part time member of other Icelandic bands such as Benni Hemm Hemm, Singapore Sling, Slowblow, Skakkamanage, FM Belfast and Represensitive Man. In his native country he is also known as a poet/author...
  
  
• Srđan Karanović
• Nevenka Rezdic Toth/Nena Toth/ Director of Photography/ Filmmaker/