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In their production countries, Central and Eastern European productions often compete successfully with Marvel, Disney & Co for the favour of the audience. With their specific humour, their allusions to regional mentalities, political culture and history, they strike a chord with their audience. They bring the present to the screen in a straightforward and pointed way, from journalism on adrenaline to family fates that can affect anyone and everyone, to marital strife on a desert island - between sports and boycotts, hood and brotherly love, crime and comedy, action and family films.

Emergency Situation

Mimorádná událost

Jiří Havelka
CZ / 2022 / 101 min

A special trip to Velký Meziříčí. Somewhere in the Bohemian-Moravian highlands a train starts moving without its driver. The passengers are bewildered: A kidnapping? A shooting rampage? An Islamist attack? The fire brigade places a bouncy castle ...

Eviction

Kilakoltatás

Máté Fazekas
HU / 2021 / 86 min

The rules are the rules: In line with this motto a routine forced eviction in a district on the outskirts of Budapest goes spectacularly wrong. An overly ambitious bailiff and the police quickly come up against their limits when an elderly lady ...

Goldilocks and the Glorious Losers

CIERNE NA BIELOM KONI

Rastislav Boroš
SK / 2022 / 94 min

A gangster comedy set in the Slovak countryside reminiscent of Guy Ritchie's Snatch. From a dangerous lover to a new Cadillac, eight stylish episodes follow the lives of two wayward small-town gangsters. In the confusion of languages and cultures in ...

Illyricvm

Simon Bogojevic Narath
HR/SI/IT/XK/BA / 2022 / 95 min

An "Eastern" from pre-Christian times: Shot in Latin and full of powerful visuals, in this historical drama set in the year 37 B.C. Romans and "Barbarians" collide in the Roman province of Illyria. Told from the perspective of a young man who offers ...

Kikka!

Anna Paavilainen
FI / 2022 / 100 min

In her home country she was regarded as the Finnish Samantha Fox: singer Kirsi Sirén, aka Kikka (1964-2005). As of the end of the 1980s, she enjoyed huge success with her dance-inspired pop numbers and the sexy image that was imposed on her. Full of ...

Kings Of Rap

Koroli Repu

Myroslav Latyk
UA / 2021 / 100 min

A reluctant bad boy: In order to break out of the confines of their Ukrainian village, Dima and Zheka resolve to become rappers. At their second performance at a local club, everything goes smoothly, that is until Dima makes some shady acquaintances ...

Melchior The Apothecary

Apteeker Melchior

Elmo Nüganen
EE / 2021 / 90 min

A famous knight who rid the Baltics of roving pirates is found murdered, head and body buried separately. Horror and anxiety spread, the elites fear for their power: Melchior is tasked with identifying those behind the crime.

The Family

Porodica

Bojan Vuletić
RS / 2021 / 5x45 min

The final three days before the ultimate arrest of Slobodan Milošević on April 1, 2001. The former president of Serbia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia has barricaded himself in a villa where, surrounded by armed followers and bodyguards, he ...

The Game

A játszma

Péter Fazakas
HU / 2022 / 110 min

A changing of the old guard amongst spies: Eight years after the workers' uprising of 1956, the Kádár regime has consolidated power in Hungary. The secret service is keeping a close eye on what is happening in the Soviet Union, expecting Leonid ...

The Last Race

Poslední závod

Tomáš Hodan
CZ / 2022 / 102 min

In 1913, Czech ski star Bohumil Hanč competed against a German opponent in what was to become a legendary ski race in the Giant Mountains. It was a question not only of sport, but also national honour. When a tragic incident occurs after a sudden ...

The Nineties

Devadesátky

Peter Bebjak
CZ / 2022 / 60 min

No FFC without a Peter Bebjak: like no other, the Slovak-Czech genre master understands the exciting interplay between thriller and auteur film, fiction and reality. His current TV series revolves around authentic criminal cases in the 1990s in the ...

Toma

Dragan Bjelogrlić
RS / 2021 / 140 min

Heartbreak, melodrama and alcohol: the life trajectory of popular Serbian singer Toma Zdravković was no more linear than the lyrics of his folk songs, which enthralled the whole of Yugoslavia. In 1991, while war was bringing his country to the verge ...

Melchior The Apothecary: The Ghost (2)

Apteeker Melchior. Viirastus (2)

Elmo Nüganen
EE/ LV / 2021 / 90 min

After the apparition of a wealthy merchant's drowned daughter appears, unexplained incidents occur, in the course of which various people lose their lives. The evidence leads back to a monastery and its vault, which hides a dark secret.

Melchior The Apothecary: The Executioner's Daughter (3)

Apteeker Melchior. Timuka tütar (3)

Elmo Nüganen
EE / 2021 / 90 min

ORPHEA IN LOVE

Axel Ranisch
DE / 2022 / 107 min

Nele, who moved from Estonia to a big German city, is a dreamer. She earns her money with mini-jobs, and time and again she escapes from her everyday life into the world of opera, music and dance. And in doing so, she wonders about bizarre characters ...

BEHIND THE CURTAIN

Jan Hřebejk
CZ / 2022 / 75 min

The new dean at the art academy sets out to finally put an end to sexism on campus when one of her students becomes the victim of a sex murder. Cult director Jan Hřebejk takes a close look at sexism and political correctness in his new mini-series. ...

THE ULTIMATUM

ULTIMÁTUM

Michal Kollár
SK/CZ / 2021 / 61 min

Hostage-taking at the heart clinic: Dano Andrík, police negotiator, finds himself caught between the fronts. Here the unpredictable kidnapper Korňan, there the defense minister who has something to cover up. And then his own pregnant ...