About festival

The Faculty of Informatics Film Festival is a short film festival that was established in 2000 as a showcase for films made by Masaryk University students. However, since 2019, the festival has also been open to external creators. Contributions come mainly from students of secondary and higher art schools throughout the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

The festival is unique in that it is almost entirely run by students as part of the PV174 course. Over the course of two semesters, students take care of the entire production of the event—from creating the visual identity to promotion, organization, and technical support. Students of the PV110 and PV113 courses then independently create and shoot their own short films under the guidance of their instructors.

Each year, the program offers approximately seventeen short films that compete for the favor of the expert jury and the live audience. The creators of the most successful projects receive financial and in-kind prizes from the festival's partners and, above all, the iconic Filmobol trophy.

With growing interest, the event is gradually expanding beyond the university grounds. Since last year, the films have been screened not only at the Faculty of Informatics, but also at the Cinema City Velký Špalíček in Brno, opening the festival to a wider 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