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More successful than Hollywood – the box office hits from the production countries in our ‘FFC region’ often include gems that rarely make it onto the screens of international film festivals, but offer plenty of entertainment value and have something to say. We show them: Kyrgyz on a mission to Mars, preppers on a survival course, gangsters in a career slump; genre films, emancipation comedies and bestseller adaptations.

100 LITERS OF GOLD

100 LITRAA SAHTIA

Teemu Nikki
FI / 2024 / 88 min

When two sisters in rural Finland drink the 100 litres of home-brewed beer, based on an ancient recipe and made for their sister’s wedding, it not only leads to a hangover, but also a ludicrous odyssey of redemption centred around stubborn pride, a ...

MIKI

Jakub Kroner
SK/CZ / 2024 / 106 min

In the early 1990s, Mikuláš Černák – nicknamed Miki – became a feared gangland boss in the Slovak underworld. With its brutal gang wars, pervasive corruption, and regular contract killings, this biopic tells the story of the rise of an ...

ČERNÁK

Jakub Kroner
SK/CZ / 2025 / 109 min

The sequel to the Slovak gangster biography: As the "boss of bosses," Miki is now one of the major players in the criminal underworld. And yet the bloody power struggles over the division of territory continue to escalate, bringing ever bigger ...

GONE RUNNING

FUTNI MENTEM

Gábor Herendi
HU / 2025 / 104 min

An award-winning Hungarian comedy about emancipation that focuses on the lives of three very different sisters who, together with their mother, run a marathon in honour of their deceased father. Featuring timing, witty dialogues, and romanticism that ...

KYRGYZ ON MARS

МАРСКА УЧКАН КЫРГЫЗДАР

Nurlanbek Kamchybekov
KG / 2025 / 81 min

A B-movie full of intellectual depth. In a remote Kyrgyz village, a physics teacher has long dreamed of travelling into space. The rocket stands ready in the stable, and now a flight attendant has been found the journey can begin. Especially as the ...

MURPHY’S LAW

Ο ΝΌΜΟΣ ΤΟΥ ΜΈΡΦΥ

Angelos Frantzis
GR/CY / 2024 / 130 min

On awakening from a coma after an accident, Maria finds herself in a series of alternate identities that she could have led; as a mother, lover, artist, or stranger. She must decide whether to return to her original self—or lose herself in the ...

UNCLE TRUTHER

WUJEK FOLIARZ

Michał Tylka
PL / 2025 / 84 min

Against his will, Jakub is kidnapped from addiction therapy. He ends up in a village with his prepper uncle and the latter’s friends – all believers in almost every conspiracy theory who intend to convert the world via guerrilla TV. A colourful ...

WHITES WASH AT NINETY

BELO SE PERE NA DEVETDESET

Marko Naberšnik
SI/IT/HR/RS/ME/MK / 2025 / 144 min

As a young woman, Bronja defies cancer and looks back on her childhood in Yugoslavia, when her father spent most of his time sitting in front of the television and cursing the communists. Her reactions to Slovenian independence extend beyond simple ...