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This year's HITS once again presents the most successful box office hits from Eastern Europe. From a classic high school film about a Mediterranean wedding in distress to a reflection on sexualised violence in Central Asia, wrapped up in a horror story - something that commercial cinema can also do. Whether ‘just’ entertainment - simple, but well made - or relevant subjects in a commercial guise: these topics occupy the audience in ‘FFC territory’.

Popular cinema at it's best.

The Carer

JutalomJáték

János Edelényi
Great Britain, Hungary / 2016 / 89 min

Retired Shakespearean actor Sir Michael Gifford is suffering from Alzheimer's Disease. Nevertheless he remains as unbearably stubborn and yet amusing as ever. Why therefore should he agree to have Hungarian migrant Dorottya as his carer? An enjoyable ...

These Daughters of Mine

Moje córki krowy

Kinga Dębska
Poland / 2015 / 88 min

Once upon a time there lived a father who considered everyone and everything, apart from himself of course, to be utterly foolish. His two daughters, who couldn't be any more different, weren't spared this contempt, and in fact were never especially ...

Trabant - From Australia to Bangkok

Trabantem do posledního dechu

Dan Přibáň
Czech Republic, Slovakia / 2016 / 97 min

Nine adventurers, two of them in wheelchairs, set off with two Trabants, a Polski Fiat and two motorbikes on a grueling journey across Australia and South East Asia in this entertaining travel documentary that comes close to giving the viewer a sense ...

Lost in Munich

Ztraceni v Mnichově

Petr Zelenka
Czech Republic / 2015 / 107 min

When Daladier, Chamberlain, Hitler and Mussolini signed the Munich Agreement in September 1938 they were blissfully unaware that the French Prime Minister's parrot Sir P. was paying close attention. Seventy years later the talkative bird is ...