{"id":2533,"date":"2026-08-29T16:07:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T13:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wiz-art.ua\/festival\/?p=2533"},"modified":"2026-08-29T16:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T13:07:14","slug":"national-competition-2-wiz-art-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wiz-art.ua\/festival\/en\/prog2026-en\/national-competition-2-wiz-art-2026-2533\/","title":{"rendered":"National Competition #2 Wiz-Art 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Presenting the second selection of national competition of Wiz-Art 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The screenings will take place on September 26 in Lviv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ON A STRINGER<\/strong> \/\/ 14′, Sashko Roshchyn, Ukraine, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At noon, in the shade of riverside trees \u2014 as if in the middle of life \u2014 you lose something. Yet love is as strong as the river. A man is going through abrupt changes in his life \u2014 personal and those caused by the war. He spends a day alone with the river, revisiting forgotten hobby – fishing. A sense of love and acceptance fills the man, but only for a brief moment \u2014 he must return to the war.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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(RE)COVERED MEMORY<\/strong> \/\/ 11′, Oleksandra Pletenetska, Ukraine, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A group of activists is fighting to preserve a historical landmark in the center of Kyiv from a developer. Their struggle is an exact parallel to the fight for memory that took place a century ago, when the soviet government attempted to erase Ukrainian identity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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GIANT<\/strong> \/\/ 17′, Vadym Mochalov, Ukraine, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While waiting for the results of the Molodist Film Festival selection, queer film director and bachelor\u2019s graduate Tim has not-so-pleasant encounters in Kyiv with his friends, relatives and colleagues, who became part of his 30-minute thesis film.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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IN 769 KM, NEW YORK<\/strong> \/\/ 15′, Sofiia Buhrii, Ukraine, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In one of the few bakeries in Kyiv, people with mental disabilities make bread. Along with their own challenges, they have to live through the experience of war. However, their daily work saves the locals on frontline territories, which are under constant shelling by Russian forces, from the food crisis. Though strangers, they are united by bread, which acts as a guide on this journey from baking, packaging, and delivering to those who need it most. The final stop: New York, a Ukrainian village in Donetsk region, now occupied by Russia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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SELF-PRESERVING NUDITY<\/strong> \/\/ 7′, Nelly Shylova, Ireland, Ukraine, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After her death by a russian missile, a ukrainian woman finds herself in the purgatory of the Irish countryside \u2014 between past and present, life and death. A poetic film-essay about trauma, exile as death, and the struggle to exist in an unreal world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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FUCK THEM ALL<\/strong> \/\/ 15′, Polina Biliaieva, Ukraine, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kira, a 30-year-old Ukrainian, flees to Poland at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, after losing her husband. Her thoughts remain with her war-torn home, but here a new challenge awaits her: Kira finds out that she is pregnant. Already traumatized, she doesn\u2019t want to bring a new life into this world, but it is impossible for her to terminate the pregnancy in Poland. Kira decides to return to Ukraine, which is still in the middle of war, to have an abortion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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THE FERRY FLOWS<\/strong> \/\/ 18′, Zhora Papoian, Ukraine, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A grey-haired music teacher from a small, yet picturesque Ukrainian island prepares his tiny brass ensemble for a spring concert with a song called “Draw me the night”. Soldier funerals come to town, turning him into a military conductor. A ferry that carried city residents through the Dniester River is now drawing night after night.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

The project is supported by Ukrainian Cultural Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Festival partners: ZMIN Foundation, Ukrainian State Film Agency, M-Rental, Morshynska, America House Lviv, Lviv City Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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