About festival

The Film Festival of the Faculty of Informatics is a short film festival established at the turn of the millennium as a platform for showcasing the film production of students from Masaryk University. Since 2019, it has also been open to the wider public.

Unlike most similar events, the festival is organized entirely by students. As part of the PV174 course, they manage the complete production of the event – from promotion and visual identity design to technical support and website development. Students enrolled in PV110 and PV113 courses then independently create their own short films under the guidance of their teachers.

Each year, around seventeen short films are included in the program, competing for the favor of both a professional jury and the cinema audience. The creators of the most successful projects receive financial and material prizes from the festival's partners and, above all, the iconic trophy – the Filmobola statuette. With growing interest, the festival continues to expand beyond the university grounds – last year, screenings took place not only at the Faculty of Informatics of Masaryk University but also, for the first time, at Cinema City Velký Špalíček in Brno, opening the festival to a broader audience.

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.