International Competition #1: Wiz-Art 2026

THE RECCE 15′ Daniel Mann, Germany, United Kingdom, 2026

Drawing on a location test filmed in Uganda and an email exchange with the location scout, The Recce captures cinema’s ties to land and its entanglement with colonial imaginaries, binding the fiction of filmmaking with the fiction of state-building.

AUGUST AND THE WAR 15′ Leandro Netzell Cerón, Samori Tovatt, Sweden, 2026

August, who lives in the small town of Blomstermåla, cannot do military service. But as Sweden rearms and Preparedness Week reaches the his small community, he is given the chance to explore both his own and others’ willingness to defend, in a disarming and humorous portrait of one of the defining questions of our time.

STIINA 15′ Elisabeth Kužovnik, Estonia, 2026

STIINA (28) is a single mother raising her daughter EMMA (9) by herself. While Stiina is working, Emma is often left home alone. What Stiina doesn’t know is that Emma has an imaginary friend who keeps her company and comforts her when bad things happen. What neither of them know, is that Emma’s friend is actually more connected to them than they realise.

THE DREAM IS A SNAIL 15′ Thiên Ân Nguyễn, South Korea, Vietnam, 2026

A young artist develops an addiction to snails after landing a bizarre gig: serving as a motionless human racetrack for snails during a rejuvenation therapy workshop for seniors.

2000 20′ Renata Lučić, Chroatia, 2026

Lela and Vid are sister and brother growing up in a toxic family environment filled with violence and emotional weight. They are each other’s allies in dealing with their parents. But an incident leads to a conflict between them.

HOW TO FALL OUT OF LOVE 15′, Varvara Zarytska, Poland, Ukraine, 2025

Agata has just gone through a painful breakup and, digging through the dusty corners of her memory and video archives, she desperately tries to piece together the reasons for her romantic failure.

If our memory is a creation, then what is film?