The CEE Screenings 2025 today wraps up with three hit series from Croatia, Poland and Slovenia, and a pilot for a new show coming from Ukraine. For Better or Worse is the hit of this TV season for Nova TV, while Shadow Play aired successfully on TVP1 and Hidden in Paradise has been dominating the charts for POP TV. The sitcom pilot Smart Nanny comes from the creative team of Starlight Media.


For Better or Worse
Country: Croatia, Genre: Drama, 240x48'

Inspired by true events, the story brings a tale of an unlikely familial drama. A successful, loving businessman, faced with his own mortality, chooses to reveal a secret he has kept for 20 years. His picture perfect life starts to shatter as the truth of his double life and two families is revealed.


Shadow Play
Country: Poland, Genre: Crime, 13x45'

In the early 1950s, in the People’s Republic of Poland, a spy codenamed “Shadow” suddenly disappears. “Shadow” had been providing key information of national interest to British intelligence. The Minister of Public Security assigns Major Witold Kosek to capture the spy. Much to the dissatisfaction of Colonel Bartman, head of the counterintelligence unit, Kosek joins his department. Bartman orders one of his men to find compromising information about Kosek. Meanwhile, in another city, Doctor Helena Bielawska is accused of murdering a high ranking party official who was her patient. Her trial attracts Major Kosek’s keen interest. The story blends genres, including crime and spy thriller elements, with psychological drama and action, creating a vibrant cinematic spectacle filled with plot twists.


Hidden in Paradise
Country: Slovenia, Genre: Drama/Romance, 75x45'

The story is set on the coast, more precisely in the Istrian campsite Paradiso, where the series' characters take refuge during the summer. The focus is on the love story of medical student Marko (Matej Zemljič) and environmentalist Lara (Gaja Filač). The latter's father died in a sea accident five years ago, which has a significant impact on the story. Mark comes from a well-off medical family, but behind him lies a tragic past and many secrets. The medical mafia, whose goal is to privatise healthcare, also gets involved.


Smart Nanny
Country: Ukraine, Genre: Sitcom, 22x20'

An ordinary middle-class family gets a humanoid robot assistant with advanced artificial intelligence for testing. Can a logical AI handle unpredictable family chaos, help with parenting, and resolve marital conflicts? Synopsis An average family (a married couple, two children and a suspicious grandpa) lives in the suburbs of the metropolis, in a small town where everyone knows each other. They dream of starting their own business, opening a small roadside hotel, but there is always not enough money for that. Their application wins in the robot assistant testing program, but to the family's surprise it is not some advanced vacuum cleaner, but a humanoid robot AINA (Artificial Intelligence NAnny), which will now live with them. The very appearance of the robot, which is difficult to distinguish from a human, causes a storm of emotions and contradictions in the family. But they get good money for participation in the program, and the children are so excited about this high-tech toy that the parents agree to keep AINA. This development is a trade secret of the corporation, so no outsider can know that AINA is a robot. Things get even more complicated when their annoying neighbor and know womanizer starts flirting with AINA...