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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.

ALIEN 2 OR THE RETURN OF VALDIS IN 17 CHAPTERS

TULNUKAS 2 EHK VALDISE TAGASITULEK 17 OSAS

Rasmus Merivoo
EE / 2024 / 100 min

20 years after he was abducted by aliens, Valdis returns to a new, ‘woke’ Estonia. In the matriarchy drugs are legal, men are delicate beings and electricity is renewable. For the simple-minded macho it's pure horror. Luckily however, he has ...

DASTUR

Kuanysh Beisekov
KAZ / 2023 / 101 min

In order to keep his son, a thug and rapist, out of prison, a provincial oligarch arranges a marriage with his victim - the starting point for a horror scenario that comes to haunt an entire family. Kuanysh Beisek produces a work that presents the ...

FOREVER HOLD YOUR PEACE

ŽIVI I ZDRAVI

Ivan Marinović
ME, RS, CZ, HR, MK, SI / 2023 / 100 min

On the day before his wedding, the whiny Momo is turned down by Dragana, his wife-to-be. But according to patriarch father Lebos, “what must be done must be done”, so the wedding and party take place. The deal: Dragana can do whatever she wants ...

GEPACK

Žiga Kukovič
SI / 2024 / 97 min

American Pie meets Slovenian road movie: Four best friends set off for a music festival on the Croatian coast with only one thing in mind: alcohol, partying and women. When they find out that one of them has a shipment of cocaine in his luggage ...

GUARDIANS OF THE FORMULA

Cuvari Formule

Dragan Bjelogrlić
RS, SI, MK, ME / 2023 / 120 min

In 1958 four Yugoslavian researchers are exposed to radiation during a secret nuclear experiment. Their last hope lies in a previously untested bone marrow graft intervention in Paris. In this thriller based on true events, Doctor Mathé and his ...

HER DRUNKEN DIARY

Zápisník alkoholičky

Dan Svátek
CZ / 2024 / 93 min

Míša feels both abandoned by her husband and trapped in her in-laws' house. To escape her loneliness, the young mother secretly turns to alcohol, thereby putting her child in danger. A psychological drama and box office hit from the Czech Republic ...

HIGH SCHOOL THIEVES

Hotii de Subiecte

Tudor Petremarin
RO / 2024 / 120 min

Sofia, Alex, Amalia and Tomita are about to graduate from high school. In order to finally be able to live out their post-school dreams, they need money and decide to leak the topics for their high school graduation exams online. Too many cooks spoil ...

WAVES

VLNY

Jiří Mádl
CZ/SK / 2024 / 131 min

Prague, the 1960s: Tomáš and his colleagues at Czechoslovak Radio are severely restricted by state censorship. The Prague Spring finally brings previously-unimagined freedoms, that is until the Warsaw Pact troops put an abrupt end to ‘reform ...