LISFF Wiz-Art[1] is an annual International Short Film Festival, which takes place in Lviv, Ukraine at the end of July.

[5] Each year, the festival team choose a socially relevant theme which they use as the basis for visual design at the event.

For eight years of the festival existence representatives of the jury were: Ruth Paxton (Scotland), David Lindner (Germany), Vincent Moon (France), Igor Podolchak (Ukraine), Achiktan Ozan (Turkey), Anna Klara Ellen Aahrén (Sweden), Katarzyna Gondek (Poland), Christoph Schwarz (Austria), Gunhild Enger (Norway), Szymon Stemplewski (Poland), Philip Ilson (UK) and others.

There were screenings of Sean Conway (UK), Boris Kazakov (Russia), Milos Tomich (Serbia), Volker Schreiner (Germany) films and retrospective show of the works of the famous avant-gardist Maya Deren (USA).

Special guests were British movie maker and poet Julian Gende, German director Martin Sulzer (Landjugend) and Kevin Kirhenbaver, Russian producer and teacher Vladimir Smorodin.

There were retrospective shows of Scott Pagano and David Orayli works and the best movies of the Film School in Zlín (Czech Republic), Stockholm (Sweden), and Hamburg (Germany).

Special guests and members of the jury were Turkish director Ozan Achiktan, Slovak media artist Anton Cerny, Swedish filmmaker Anna Klara Oren, the Ukrainian producer Alexander Debych.

The Festival was attended by directors from Ireland (Tony Donoh'yu), Spain (Fernando Uson), Portugal (Ana Mendes), Poland (Tomasz Jurkiewicz), Ukraine (Anna Smoliy, Gregory somebody Dmitry Red, Mrs. Ermine).

The Grand Prix got the film "The Day of Life" (directed by Joon Kwok, Hong Kong).

Special guests and members of the jury were Scottish filmmaker Ruth Paxton, German producer David Lindner and Ukrainian director Igor Podolchak.

Grand Prix received the film Maybes (Florian Pochlatko, Austria, 2012) — an intimate story with larger issues at stake relating to the time we are living in.

The other winners of Wiz-Art 2013 are: Best Director — Tarquin Netherway for the film The River (Australia, 2012), Best Script — Prematur (Gunhild Enger, Norway, 2012), Special Mention — Jamon (Iria Lopez, United Kingdom, 2012), Audience Award — Touch and See (Taras Dron, Ukraine, 2013).

Wiz-Art Film School, an educational block, consists of lectures, Q&A sessions, meetings and workshops with festival guests.

October 11-15 - X festival, the theme "What is the theory of life" (with the deliberate mistake of emphasizing the superficial perception of the world, where it is customary to look for simple recipes for happiness, about trying to appear instead of being).

Special honors were awarded to the film "Ella - Essays on Departure" by Oliver Adam Cusio from Germany and "The Weightlifter" by Dmytro Suholytky-Sobchuk from Ukraine.

The winners were determined by an international jury consisting of director, producer and curator of art projects Nadia Parfan from Ukraine, director and screenwriter Jannik Dahl Pederson from Denmark and sales manager at Interfilm Berlin Short Sales&Distribution Sara Dombrink from Germany.

The Grand Prix of the festival and the prize for the best screenplay was won by the film directed by Bohdan Muresanu from Romania "Christmas Gift".

As part of Wiz-Art Lab, film screenings and Q&A with Nikita Lyskov, Yarema&Himey, Nadia Parfan, Sarah Dombrink and Yannik Dahl Pederson took place.

Due to quarantine restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the screening took place for the first time in a new format - offline in Lviv, as well as at the Wiz-Art Film Festival Online cinema.

The jury of the National Competition Program consisted of Deken Berenson, a British writer, Ivan Kozlenko, the general director of the Dovzhenko Center, and Kateryna Gornostay, a documentary filmmaker.

Natalia Kiselova's "Carpet" received a special award 1 in the national competition "for creating a lyrical image of a Ukrainian teenager, in whose life love and war enter equally rapidly and fatefully, giving rise to a hitherto unknown feeling of care and self-sacrifice on the way to growing up and accepting the Other."