On September 13, the winners of the 13th Lviv International Wiz-Art Short Film Festival were announced. The Grand Prix of the festival was won by the film "Don't Sleep, Be Ready" directed by Pam Tien Ana.
The winners were determined by an international jury consisting of Bohdan Mureshan, Yulia Sinkevych, Anna Korinek, Dekel Berenson, Ivan Kozlenko and Kateryna Hornostay, as well as the audience. 30 films competed for the attention of the jury and the audience - 12 in national and 18 in international programs.
Grand Prix: "Don't sleep, be ready" Pam Tien An. Jury comment: "For originality in the formation of a unique storytelling and for the skillful and subtle richness of details"
Special award in the international competition: "Southern Fever" by Thomas Woodruff. Jury comment: "For unsurpassed camera work"
The best script in the international competition: "Watermelon Juice" by Irene Morai. Jury comment: "For a bold and elegant disclosure of a complex topic"
Audience Award of the International Competition: "Tradition" Ioseb "Soso" Bliadze
The best Ukrainian film: "Save me, doctor" by Dmytro Hreshko. Jury's comment: "This year, among Ukrainian films, the winner was the one that could have the same logline as the festival -" I'm with you ".
For respect for the reality packed 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 - the main prize of the Wiz-Art festival in the national competition we decided to give the film "Save me, doctor!" Dmitry Greshka
Special award 1 in the national competition: "Carpet" by Natalia Kiselyova. Jury comment: "For creating a lyrical image of a Ukrainian teenager, in whose life love and war enter equally rapidly and fatefully, generating a hitherto unknown feeling of care and self-sacrifice on the way to growing up and accepting the Other"
Special award 2 in the national competition: "In our synagogue" by Ivan Orlenko. Jury comment: "For a mature and restrained stylistic approach, which skillfully conveys the Kafkaesque essence of the unfinished story" The Beast in the Synagogue ". The short film skillfully creates a sense of foreshadowing, typical of the story of 1923, and this is what gives the film to live its own life.
Ivan Orlenko's film "In Our Synagogue" won the audience award in the national competition. He received a nomination for the European Audience Award (he will be represented at 10 European film festivals), as well as a grant of 100 thousand hryvnias from the Lviv City Council for the shooting of the next film in Lviv.
The Wiz-Art Festival took place in a combined format from September 7 to 13. All films were available for viewing after registration in the virtual cinema of the festival (https://wizartfest.bigshort.com.ua/).
The 13th Lviv International Wiz-Art Short Film Festival was supported by the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation, the State Agency for Cinema and the Lviv City Council.
Press release Wiz-Art
