About festival

The Film Festival of the Faculty of Informatics is a short film festival that was established in 2000 as a showcase of films produced by students of Masaryk University. In 2019, the festival also started including movies made by art students from high schools and universities in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

The festival is unique in that it is almost entirely prepared by students of Masaryk University as part of the PV174 course (until 2023, it was prepared as part of PV113). Students can participate in the organization or PR of the festival, they have the opportunity to create visuals, videos and websites for the festival or manage the technical background, or they can participate in the creation of films for the festival in the PV113 and PV110 courses.

The Faculty of Informatics of Masaryk University will present its annual Film Festival again this year. If we were to look briefly into the history of FFFI MU, it has come a long way since the original audiovisual project "All Five Together", which was created to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the faculty (1999). In the beginning, those interested in student multimedia production from the turn of the millennium, despite the great enthusiasm of the former students, did not have the necessary technology and mentoring. The university's course Multimedia Electronic Publications was created.In the Lemma Lab course, it is the "organizational souls" who can use PR, graphics or fundraising to ensure the smooth running of the festival. LEMMA itself, the Laboratory of Electronic and Multimedia Applications, specializes in technologies for processing and publishing large text and multimedia data collections, including film production and post-production. It develops new technologies based especially (but not only) on free software.It started in 1999 and in 2001 a Development Fund grant enabled the construction of an editing suite.It was thanks to this laboratory that the facilities for teaching the above mentioned subjects and thus the festival itself were created.This subsequently evolved into the courses FI:PV110 Fundamentals of Film Speech,FI:PV113 Production of Audiovisual Works and FI:PV174 Laboratory of EM Applications, which can be taken by students across Masaryk University.Over the course of two semesters, students can create their own short film works under professional guidance. Whether they are attracted by script writing, camera work, production, editing or post-production or festival organization.