At the heart of LUCAS are the inter­na­tio­nal com­pe­ti­ti­ons with 20 short films as German pre­mie­res and 21 cur­rent fea­ture-length films. The juries award pri­zes in the age sec­tions »Kids«, »Teens« and »Youngsters«. The films will be shown in the ori­gi­nal lan­guage with English sub­tit­les and German voice-over (no voice-over for films recom­men­ded 14 and over).

Young cura­tors are also invol­ved at LUCAS this year: six young peop­le from Kosovo, Slovenia and Germany, the »Young European Cinephiles«, pre­sent a film seri­es on the the­me of “Identity”. The »Klassiker.Klasse«, based on the cur­rent spe­cial exhi­bi­ti­on WEIMAR WEIBLICH. Women and Gender Diversity in Modern Cinema (1918 — 1933) at the DFF, pres­ents the film ALICE JUNIOR. Guests at LUCAS are the Federal Association of Youth and Film and the film­club Blickwechsel Jetzt! This year, LUCAS is coope­ra­ting with the DIALOGMUSEUM Frankfurt. The »Minis« pro­gram­me “Formenspiel” alrea­dy fores­ha­dows the new spe­cial exhi­bi­ti­on LICHTSPIELPLATZ (from December 2023).

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