Prague’s FAMU Film School Ranked Among Top 15 Global Film Schools

Prague’s famous FAMU Film School has once again been included in The Hollywood Reporter’s prestigious annual list of the 15 Best Global Film Schools, alongside institutions such as the London Film School and France’s La Fémis.

The US weekly described FAMU as one of Europe’s top-tier film schools, which offers one-year intensive programs and two and three year master’s degrees in directing, cinematography and editing, including accredited programs in English.

The Hollywood Reporter described the FAMU as one of Europe’s top-tier film schools, offering one-year intensive programs and two- and three-year master’s degrees in directing, cinematography and editing, including accredited programs in English.

The magazine noted that the school’s alumni include Milos Forman, Vera Chytilová, Jirí Menzel and Jaromil Jires, “who created a new dark and funny take on life behind the Iron Curtain”.

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

In the 1960s and 1970s, several young directors from Yugoslavia were FAMU students (Rajko Grlić, Srđan Karanović, Emir Kusturica, Goran Marković, Goran Paskaljević and Lordan Zafranović).

All of these directors would become very successful in the following decades, prompting the coinage of the term Praška filmska škola (“Prague film school”), or Praški talas (“Prague wave”), which is sometimes considered a prominent subgenre of the Yugoslav cinema.

Today, FAMU continues to uphold its reputation as one of the most prestigious film schools in Europe, with a focus on comprehensive training programs that are designed to meet the evolving demands of the film industry.

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