Wiz-Art 2020 Winners

Grand Prix

“Stay awake, be ready” by Phạm Thiên Ân

Jury statement: “For originality in shaping a unique storytelling and for the richness of details delivered in a very subtle way”

Synopsis: A motorbike crash happening before the street stalls on a street corner was embedded in the mysterious story of three young men.

Special Mention – International Competition

“Austral fever” by Thomas Woodroffe

Jury statement: “For outstanding cinematography”

Synopsis: Amanda, a complaisant and lonely woman in her mid-forties, lives with Daniel, her sixteen-year-old son, in the mountains of southern Chile. Octavio, a friend of Daniel, is accidentally injured while hunting in the forest. Amanda takes over the healing sessions, developing an intimate bond between them. They discover that contact with the wound produces an addictive pleasure.

Best Script – International Competition

“Watermelon juice” by Irene Morey

Jury statement: “For the courage of tackling a tough subject in a gracious manner”

Synopsis: Barbara and Pol spend a few days on holiday with a group of friends in a house surrounded by nature. With the support of Pol, in the midst of nature, between tears and laughter, Barbara will heal old wounds and redefine her sexuality.

Audience Award – International Competition

“Tradition” by Ioseb “Soso” Bliadze

Synopsis: Two German tourists, Christian and Daniel are visiting Georgia as a tourist. They are searching for food in a village and suddenly they are invited to a Georgian wedding. Their real adventures start here.

Best Film – National Competition

“Save me, doctor” by Dmytro Greshko

Jury statement: “This year, among Ukrainian films, the winner is the one that could have the same logline as the festival — “I’m with you”.

For a respectful attitude towards reality that was structured by the author in a delicate story and for the incredible trust of the person in the frame to the author of the film holding a camera — we decided to give the main prize of the Wiz-Art Festival in the National Competition to the film “Save me, doctor!” by Dmytro Hreshko”

Synopsis: The film tells about the work of the ambulance team in the New Year holidays in Kyiv. The main characters are three ambulance workers: a doctor, a paramedic, and a driver, and the challenges and patients they face during their work shift.

Special Mention 1 – National Competition

“The carpet” by Natalia Kyselova

Jury statement: “For creating a lyrical image of a Ukrainian teenager whose life sees love and war enter rapidly and fatefully, generating an unfamiliar feeling of care and self-sacrifice in the process of growing up and accepting another”

Synopsis: Tolik is a teenager who lives with his mother in a front line city. Each day she asks him to clean on the carpet. But he has no deal with it — he has a business with his friends. Besides, he falls in love with a young woman and helps her with a baby. Through all of these vital difficulties nobody notices how the war comes.

Special Mention 2 – National Competition

“In our synagogue” by Ivan Orlenko 

Jury statement: “For a mature understated stylistic approach that captures the Kafkaesque essence of the original incomplete “The Animal in the Synagogue”. The short film takes liberty in manifesting the foreshadowing depicted in the short story written in 1923 that gives the film a life of its own”

Synopsis: A boy tries to find out what happened in the old local synagogue. Obsessed, he is chasing something he never saw and does not pay any attention to what is happening around him.

Audience Award – National Competition

“In our synagogue” by Ivan Orlenko

Synopsis: A boy tries to find out what happened in the old local synagogue. Obsessed, he is chasing something he never saw and does not pay any attention to what is happening around him.

Main prize of script workshop Keep It Short

“Luv” by Kirilo Zemlyaniy

Special mention of script workshop Keep it Short

“By the power given to me”

Jury statement: “For mixture of universal story and local context“

Additional prize of script workshop Keep It Short

“Luv” by Kirilo Zemlyaniy

Jury statement: For honest authorial vision and interesting world to observe