Games People Play: Non-Competition Films Wiz-Art 2026

HORDE // 7′, Janina Księska, Poland, 2025

A crowd of people under the influence of the alluring rhythm feels a sudden urge to come to a mysterious tower that’s standing in a middle of nowhere. Inside they are not able to stop moving, jumping or dancing. Unaware, they are performing a ritual arranged by a creature spinning on the top of the tower. Through the chaos that ensues walks a disoriented, indifferent, untouched by the mania person, who was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

RAGE // 19′, Fran Moreno Blanco, Spain, 2025

Eric lives in a juvenile center. He tries to rebuild his relationship with his mother so he can live with her again when he turns 18. When she doesn’t show up to visit him, he runs away to go to her house. There, he discovers she has a new family and that she has moved on with her life without him.

OUR WALLS // 7′, Živa Divjak, Slovenia, 2026

An animated documentary that, through an intimate conversation between a daughter and a mother, searches for understaning and explores family bonds. The film reveals the inner conflict between freedom and sacrifice. Gradually, walls that connect and confine us across generations emerge, shaping who we are to ourselves and to one another.

DETLEV // 13′, Ferdinand Ehrhardt, Germany, 2024

A constantly freezing man in his forties drives to a lonely petrol station every evening and orders a microwaved Toast Hawaii. Detlev indulges in this in a bizarre ritual, because it’s the only thing that warms him in his daily life. But when he is observed by a stranger one night, his world begins to crumble into shameful pieces.

ALTER TIME // 5, Anna-Maria Oueiny, Lebanon, 2026

A tour inside the mind of a parkour athlete, where a few seconds spent mid air are enough for time to slow to its absolute stillness, the body to dissolve into weightlessness, and questions to arise.

TRADING CARDS // 15′, Radheya Jang, Australia, United Kingdom, 2026

An enigmatic man journeys back in time to find his younger self, seemingly to revisit the nostalgia of trading cards. An exploration of identity, mental health and the erosion of childhood innocence, Trading Cards is a dark fantasy animated film about the weight of living with Obsessive-compulsive disorder.

MY LOVELY BEAST // 8′, Anasatasiia Tiahun, Ukraine, 2025

This is a story in the genre of analog horror about a family of that have just moved into a new house. They live as if in the classic American dream, until strange transformations take place with the husband. He loves his wife, but he loves eating and drinking much more. The wife cannot understand if he is still her husband or if she is now living with a real monster under the same roof.

PHANTOM CAROUSEL // 19′, Efosa Osaghae, United Kingdom, 2026

Bento Moura is a man running out of options. Broke, exhausted, and hounded for child support, he picks up covert work for a shadowy compliance firm, spying on London’s remote workforce. Armed with a Prius and a long lens, Bento’s job is to flag productivity crimes: An ad creative skipping agency calls, a project manager dancing in his underwear and a coder choosing the gym over his client status meeting.. But the deeper Bento drifts into this carousel of surveillance, the clearer it becomes that his targets aren’t corporate threats at all, just people trying to stay afloat. When the job escalates from casual stalking to forced entry, Bento must decide what he’s really willing to trade for access to his daughter.