Schedule 2025
Program 2025
-
Operator VS Documentary Film: Film Workshop with Les Lieskov
A practical and theoretical lecture by cinematographer Les Leskov on what a cinematographer does in documentary filmmaking: from life hacks in preparing for a project to choosing the most successful creative tools and equipment. Location: America House Lviv
-
Balconies of Time: Opening Films Wiz-Art 2025
BRIGHT WHITE LIGHT // 14 min., Henna Välkky, Eesu Lehtola, Finland, 2024 WHERE RUSSIA ENDS // 20 min., Oleksiy Radynski, Ukraine, 2024 WE MADE A FILM // 14 min., Tota Alves, Portugal, 2024 OBITUARY SERVICE FOR YOU // 12 min., María Salafranca, Cuba, 2024 THE SOIL, WHICH CONNECTS US // 8 min., Richard Marx, Germany, 2023 TOO CLOSE // 12 min., Eugene Slupchuk, Ukraine, 2024
-
Winners of European Film Festivals: Selection #1
LOVE TO DEATH // 26 min., Ingrid Heiderscheidt, Belgium, 2024 BETWEEN DELICATE AND VIOLENT // 14 min., Şirin Bahar Demirel, Turkey, Netherlands, 2023 FISH RIVER ANTHOLOGY // 9 min., Veera Lamminpää, Finland, 2024 TWO PEOPLE EXCHANGING SALIVA // 36 min., Natalie Musteata, Alexandre Singh, France, United States, 2024
-
War on Art
WAR ON ART // 73 min., Andrzej Miekus, Estonia, 2025 On February 24, 2022, Google locations of Ukrainian museums are switched off, and Ukrainian art goes underground. Lacking official guidance, a courageous network of volunteers embarks to save artefacts, risking their lives to preserve Ukraine’s cultural identity. War on Art is a story of resilience in the face of destruction, where the struggle to save art is a battle to save a nation.
-
Worlds Clash: Non-competition Films, Selection #1
FOUR WALLS OF MEMORY // 12 min., Joanna Płatek, Poland, 2024 GRANDMA NAI WHO PLAYED FAVORITES // 19 min., Chheangkea, Cambodia, France, United States, 2025 WORLD AT STAKE // 20 min., Susanna Flock, Adrian Jonas Haim, Jona Kleinlein, Austria, 2025 BAD FOR A MOMENT // 15 min., Daniel Soares, Portugal, 2024 HURIKÁN // 13 min., Jan Saska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czechia, France, Slovakia, 2024 SPA // 12 min., Ieva Šakalytė, Lithuania, 2024
-
Dad's Lullaby
Dad’s Lullaby // 78 min., Lesia Diak, Ukraine, 2025 The unseen damage inflicted by war on personal relationships pushes war veteran Serhiy away from his family. Haunted by loss and war, he battles to reconnect with his wife, Nadiia, and their three sons, Sasha (11), Artem (8) and Nikita (3). The film takes an unexpected turn when Serhiy turns the camera on the director herself. This role reversal creates a space for vulnerable dialogue about love and human relationships as the filmmaker shares her own experiences of a breakup with another Ukrainian war veteran. The trust and empathy built between the protagonist and the filmmaker not only convey war’s lasting emotional toll but also showcase the healing potential of storytelling and documentary filmmaking.
-
Winners of European Film Festivals: Selection #2
HEALTHY CURE // 18 min., Lucía G. Romero, Spain, 2024 ROSE // 18 min., Annika Mayer, Germany, 2024 MY SECRET CYBERLOVE // 30 min., Bartosz Stankiewicz, Poland, 2024 PERCEBES // 12 min., Alexandra Ramires, Laura Gonçalves, Portugal, 2024
-
International Competition: Selection #1
ROCK PAPER SCISSORS // 20 min., Franz Böhm, United Kingdom, 2024 HUN TUN // 15 min., Magdalena Hejzlarová, Czechia, 2024 RUTH // 22 min., Sonia Martí Gallego, Spain, 2024 LIVING STONES // 20 min., Jákob Ladányi Jancsó, Austria, Hungary, 2025 CRUST // 26 min., Jens Kevin Georg, Germany, 2023
-
International Competition: Selection #2
CRITICAL CONDITION // 24 min., Mila Zhluktenko, Germany, 2025 PERCEBES // 12 min., Alexandra Ramires, Laura Gonçalves, Portugal, 2024 THE MAN WHO COULD NOT REMAIN SILENT // 13 min., Nebojša Slijepčević, Croatia, 2024 WORMS // 19 min., Domenico Distilo, Italy, 2025 THEIR EYES // 20 min., Nicolas Gourault, France, 2025
-
International Competition: Selection #3
SMOKE OF THE FIRE // 22 min., Daryna Mamaisur, Portugal, Ukraine, 2023 SUCKER’S DEATH // 21 min., Krzysztof Grudziński, Poland, 2023 THE SHYNESS OF TREES // 9 min., Bingqing Shu, Maud Le Bras, Jiaxin Huang, Simin He, Lina Han, Loïck du Plessis d’Argentré, Sofiia Chuikovska, France, 2024 BLUE HEART // 15 min., Samuel Suffren, Haiti, 2025 MADE OF SUGAR // 25 min., Clàudia Cedó, Spain, 2024
-
Free 60s. An Uncensored Balcony Party
We invite participants and guests of the film festival to an atmospheric networking event in the style of the 1960s. Accompanied by music from Kostia Vidmotay’s cassette tapes and records, we will be transported back to the days of the 1960s apartment concerts. Kostya Vidmotay is an artist, researcher of Ukrainian popular music of the 60s-80s, vinyl digger, and specialist in digitizing audio tapes at the “Dim Zvuku” department of Lviv Radio. Special guest Olena Zaretska, head of the Horska and Zaretsky Foundation, will share her memories of those legendary evenings. The event is dedicated to the birthday of Alla Horska, an artist and dissident. Everyone will have the opportunity to create a postcard or poster with quotes from the artist.
Entrance is free with a donation to the Wiz-Art x AZOV.ONE fundraiser for the rehabilitation of soldiers’ needs related to examination, treatment, and rehabilitation. All funds will be transferred to the Support Service of the 12th Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine “Azov.” You’ll have to show a screenshot of the donation at the entrance. -
Ukrainian Competition: Selection #1
DRIVING LESSONS // 18 min., Anastasiya Gruba, Ukraine, 2024 HOME IS 1117 KM AWAY // 17 min., Marta Smerechynska, Ukraine, Hungary, 2024 KYIV CAKE // 22 min., Mykyta Lyskov, Ukraine, Estonia, 2025 BLUEBERRY SUMMER // 19 min., Masha Kondakova, Ukraine, France, 2024 CURFEW // 23 min., Yelyzaveta Toptyhina, Ukraine, 2025
-
Ukrainian Competition: Selection #2
BEWARE OF THE GOOD DOG // 26 min., Adelina Borets, Ukraine, Poland, 2024 UNAVAILABLE // 20 min, Kyrylo Zemlyanyi, Ukraine, 2025 I DIED IN IRPIN // 11 min., Anastasiia Falileieva, Ukraine, Slovakia, Czechia, 2025 HELLO, I’M ON THE HILL // 14 min., Liza Pyrozhkova, Ukraine, 2024 ADDITIONAL SCENES // 15 min., Roman Khimei, Yarema Malashchuk, Ukraine, 2024
-
Ukrainian Competition: Selection #3
A DAY WITH POLLY // 12 min., Nazar Onufriv, Ukraine, 2025 SHRIMP, SWITCH, CIGARETTE BUTT & A LITTLE BOTTLE // 17 min., Olha Pyrozhyk, Ukraine, 2025 THOUGHTS ON PEACE IN AN AIR RAID // 16 min., Vyacheslav Turyanytsya, Ukraine, 2025 DADDY’S LITTLE SCRATCH // 24 min., Yehor Harmash, Ukraine, 2025 SONIA’S BLOSSOM // 15 min., Nataliia Suprun, Ukraine, 2025
-
Antonio Lukich on People Planet. Moderated by Volodymyr Byehlov, The Ukrainians
A conversation with Ukrainian director Antonio Lukich (My Thoughts Are Silent, Luxembourg, Luxembourg) moderated by Volodymyr Byehlov as a special event within the People Planet project by The Ukrainians media.
-
La Paliciada
La Paliciada // 100 min., Philip Sotnychenko, Ukraine, 2023 Ukraine, 1996. 5 months before the moratorium on the death penalty, two old friends, a police detective and a forensic psychiatrist, investigate a murder of their colleague.
-
Nostalgia for the Future: Non-competition Films, Selection #2
MAYBE ELEPHANTS // 17 min., Torill Kove, Canada, Norway, 2024 PLACE UNDER THE SUN // 20 min., Vlad Bolgarin, Moldova, 2024 ABEL // 15 min., Dekel Berenson, Paul Wesley, Mexico, United Kingdom, United States, 2024 FROM MADRID TO HEAVEN // 19 min., Pablo Pérez, Spain, 2025
-
Closing of Wiz-Art 2025
Closing of the festival and screening of winning films.