{"id":2734,"date":"2026-09-06T14:28:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T11:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wiz-art.ua\/festival\/?p=2734"},"modified":"2026-09-08T21:43:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:43:48","slug":"international-competition-1-wiz-art-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wiz-art.ua\/festival\/en\/program\/international-competition-1-wiz-art-2026-2734\/","title":{"rendered":"International Competition #1: Wiz-Art 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lviv International Film Festival invites you to the screening of the first selection of the International Competition!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Screening date:<\/strong> September 23, 6:30<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Screening location:<\/strong> Lviv Art Palace, 17 Kopernyka str.<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedbtn.kb-btns2734_eeb1cf-1b{gap:var(--global-kb-gap-xs, 0.5rem 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src=\"https:\/\/wiz-art.ua\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/The_Recce_-_Still_1-1-1024x535.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2726\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wiz-art.ua\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/The_Recce_-_Still_1-1-1024x535.webp 1024w, https:\/\/wiz-art.ua\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/The_Recce_-_Still_1-1-300x157.webp 300w, https:\/\/wiz-art.ua\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/The_Recce_-_Still_1-1-767x401.webp 767w, https:\/\/wiz-art.ua\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/The_Recce_-_Still_1-1-1536x803.webp 1536w, https:\/\/wiz-art.ua\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/The_Recce_-_Still_1-1.webp 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>THE RECCE<\/strong>\u00a015\u2032 Daniel Mann, Germany, United Kingdom, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Drawing on a location test filmed in Uganda and an email exchange with the location scout, The Recce captures cinema\u2019s ties to land and its entanglement with colonial imaginaries, binding the fiction of filmmaking with the fiction of state-building.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/wiz-art.ua\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/August_4-1-1024x576.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wiz-art.ua\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/August_4-1-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/wiz-art.ua\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/August_4-1-300x169.webp 300w, 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But as Sweden rearms and Preparedness Week reaches the his small community, he is given the chance to explore both his own and others\u2019 willingness to defend, in a disarming and humorous portrait of one of the defining questions of our time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"553\" src=\"https:\/\/wiz-art.ua\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Stiina-3-1-1024x553.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wiz-art.ua\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Stiina-3-1-1024x553.webp 1024w, https:\/\/wiz-art.ua\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Stiina-3-1-300x162.webp 300w, https:\/\/wiz-art.ua\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Stiina-3-1-767x414.webp 767w, https:\/\/wiz-art.ua\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Stiina-3-1-1536x829.webp 1536w, https:\/\/wiz-art.ua\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Stiina-3-1.webp 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>STIINA<\/strong>\u00a015\u2032 Elisabeth Ku\u017eovnik, Estonia, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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&#8217;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&#8217;s friend is actually more connected to them than they realise.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/wiz-art.ua\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TDIAS_Still-9-1-1024x576.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wiz-art.ua\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TDIAS_Still-9-1-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/wiz-art.ua\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TDIAS_Still-9-1-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/wiz-art.ua\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TDIAS_Still-9-1-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/wiz-art.ua\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TDIAS_Still-9-1-1536x864.webp 1536w, https:\/\/wiz-art.ua\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TDIAS_Still-9-1.webp 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>THE DREAM IS A SNAIL<\/strong> 15\u2032 Thi\u00ean \u00c2n Nguy\u1ec5n, South Korea, Vietnam, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"707\" src=\"https:\/\/wiz-art.ua\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2000_still_1-1-1024x707.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2730\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wiz-art.ua\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2000_still_1-1-1024x707.webp 1024w, https:\/\/wiz-art.ua\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2000_still_1-1-300x207.webp 300w, https:\/\/wiz-art.ua\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2000_still_1-1-767x529.webp 767w, https:\/\/wiz-art.ua\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2000_still_1-1-1536x1060.webp 1536w, https:\/\/wiz-art.ua\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2000_still_1-1.webp 1565w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2000<\/strong>\u00a020\u2032 Renata Lu\u010di\u0107, Chroatia, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lela and Vid are sister and brother growing up in a toxic family environment \ufb01lled with violence and emotional weight. They are each other\u2019s allies in dealing with their parents. But an incident leads to a con\ufb02ict between them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"615\" src=\"https:\/\/wiz-art.ua\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/How_to_fall_out_of_love_Zarytska_1-2-1024x615.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2731\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wiz-art.ua\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/How_to_fall_out_of_love_Zarytska_1-2-1024x615.webp 1024w, https:\/\/wiz-art.ua\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/How_to_fall_out_of_love_Zarytska_1-2-300x180.webp 300w, https:\/\/wiz-art.ua\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/How_to_fall_out_of_love_Zarytska_1-2-768x461.webp 768w, https:\/\/wiz-art.ua\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/How_to_fall_out_of_love_Zarytska_1-2-1536x922.webp 1536w, https:\/\/wiz-art.ua\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/How_to_fall_out_of_love_Zarytska_1-2.webp 1799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>HOW TO FALL OUT OF LOVE<\/strong> 15\u2032, Varvara Zarytska, Poland, Ukraine, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If our memory is a creation, then what is film?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>The project is supported by the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation.<br><br>Festival partners: ZMIN Foundation, Ukrainian State Film Agency, M-Rental, Morshynska, America House Lviv, Lviv City Council, Megogo, Morshynska, Lviv Film Hub, Suspilne Culture, Sebto Media, Zahid.Net<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lviv International Film Festival invites you to the screening of the first selection of the International Competition! Screening date: September 23, 6:30 Screening location: Lviv Art Palace, 17 Kopernyka str. 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