Eliška Lubojatzká is a film director, music producer and audiovisual artist. She is currently completing her Master’s degree at the Centre for audiovisual studies at FAMU. Her first short film, Zagovory (2021), premiered at the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival and was shortlisted for the Jiné vize competition at the PAF in Olomouc. In 2023, she was selected for the FIDCampus residency programme for young filmmakers as part of the Festival International de Cinéma (FID) in Marseille. Her latest short film, Krajina opuštění I.: Dívka s bičem, is currently being prepared for its world premiere. During her studies, she took part in an exchange programme in Denmark and also studied at the prestigious École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Her work explores themes related to identity, mythology, queer issues and fantastical or dreamlike worlds. She also contributes to the film programming at the Mezipatra Queer Film Festival. She is also involved in music production through her solo project, Ashen Foals.

Jamaica Kindlová is a director and animator specialising in documentary subjects. As well as film, she works as an illustrator and has an interest in puppet theatre. Touching Darkness (2024), her student film from FAMU, created using sand animation, was selected for numerous film festivals and won several awards, including the Pavel Koutecký Award for Best Short Documentary. Her latest film, Gently (2026), drawn with charcoal, was awarded the Lotte Reiniger Prize at the prestigious Annecy International Animation Film Festival and is enjoying success around the world.

Filip Liška is in his final year of a Master’s degree in Film Editing at FAMU and is simultaneously completing a PhD in History at the Faculty of Arts at Charles University, where he is researching the history of public spaces. It is precisely at the intersection of history and film that he develops his own approach to exploring themes of collective memory, Czech society and identity. In his work, he frequently employs humour and seeks new approaches to the genre of contemporary social comedy. His short films Filip’s Grandad (2025) and The Last Day of Kamil Kroft (2024) won the FAMUfest Audience Award and other festival honours. Alongside his own work, he is working as an editor on a current Czech Television project about Charter 77 and is collaborating on exhibitions at the Centre for Architecture and Metropolitan Planning (CAMP).

Anna Wowra is a Polish director living in Prague, a recent graduate of the Department of Feature Film Directing at FAMU. Prior to that, she studied at the Wajda School and also Slavic Studies at Jagiellonian University. Her bachelor’s thesis film, Stuck Together (2023), premiered in the Future Frames section at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and won awards at the Tirana FF (Best GENERATIONs) and the Młodzi i Film festival in Koszalin (Golden Amber for Best Short Film). The film was also nominated for the 2023 Czech Lion Awards in the categories of Best Student Film and Best Short Film. At FAMUFEST, it won awards for Best Direction and Best Screenplay. Her master’s film First, Do No Harm (currently in post-production) was selected for the Focus SCRIPT programme at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival as part of its development. She is currently preparing her feature debut, In Good Faith, which has been selected for the Go Long! programme at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and the Talent Village programme at the Les Arcs Film Festival. She is also developing the film To Move Mountains, on which she is collaborating with her husband, director Vojtěch Novotný.

Tomáš Hlaváček studied philosophy and media studies at Masaryk University in Brno. He went on to study at the Department of Documentary Film at FAMU. He works as an independent documentary filmmaker and focuses on critically capturing contemporary political, social and socio-cultural issues. In his documentaries, he uses the method of engaged observation to delve into the worlds of ethnic minorities and social subcultures. He is the director of the documentary films Když máš práci, máš všechno (2016), Stadion (2018), We Are the Epicentres of Earthquake (2020), Housing Against Everyone (2021) and The Impossibility (2024), which won the main prize in the Czech Joy section at the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival and the Czech Film Critics’ Award for Best Documentary Film.