JOIN IN!
NOT JUST WATCHING, BUT PARTICIPATING: »Get Involved!« is the name of the participatory projects on offer before, during and after the festival week. You can get involved in a very practical way while experiencing and understanding film.
WHAT IS “GET INVOLVED!”?
Our own film series, our moderation, my film reviews: participation for young people is a top priority at LUCAS. Whether for cinema novices or die-hard cinephiles from Frankfurt, Rhine-Main and Europe, school classes or festival guests — there are “Get Involved!” projects at every level at LUCAS, which are the ideal starting point for an in-depth exploration of the medium for everyone. Discuss the works with filmmakers, gather knowledge, explore together why and how the events on the screen allow us to experience different cultures and feel things: Young people learn a lot about themselves and the world with “Get involved!” and experience international film culture together. The focus of all film education projects at LUCAS is to give film fans space for their own ideas, criteria, methods and decisions and to deepen the film experience, sometimes playfully, sometimes analytically, practically or intuitively.
Contact and Advice:
E‑mail: s.schmidt@dff.film
Phone: 069 961 220 672
Film Talks in Advance
Quiet on set, we’ll ask the questions here! In interviews set at the TV studio of the Medienprojektzentrum Offener Kanal Rhein-Main (MOK), young people talk to the filmmakers whose films are being shown in the festival competition. The young presenters prepare for the interviews in workshops and write down important questions — including: Where does the story come from? How did the actors prepare for their roles?
With the recorded interview, which can be viewed on the MOK’s cable program, in the Mediathek Hessen and permanently on the festival’s own YouTube channel, everyone can experience film talks regardless of time or place.
Click here for the Film Talks in Advance of LUCAS #47. All past film talks are available on the LUCAS YouTube channel
Critics | AI Edition
Which movie is great, which isn’t — and above all: why?
Writing reviews means formulating your own opinion in a stylistically confident and convincing way, and this is exactly what the critics workshop is all about. At the festival, the participants watch several competition films and then get to the bottom of their content and aesthetic design in workshops with film educator Lara Verschragen. AI-supported visualizations of the texts will also be tested at the upcoming edition. The resulting reviews will be published daily on the LUCAS website.
Including a festival pass for the entire LUCAS festival week.
Here you can read the movie reviews of the last years:
LUCAS #46 (2023)
LUCAS #45 (2022)
LUCAS #44 (2021)
Young European Cinephiles
The »Young European Cinephiles« are an annually changing group of young film-loving Europeans who curate and present their own film series — and thus bring a young, international perspective to LUCAS.
As part of this »Get Involved!« project, young people who have already been involved in projects at other European film festivals, cinematheques or film institutions will discuss their selections according to an overarching theme in online sessions leading up to the festival. During LUCAS, the »YECs« present their film series in the cinema and lead the film talk with the audience afterwards.
This year the »Young European Cinephiles« consist of teenagers and young adults from Croatia and Germany. The theme of the Cinephiles for LUCAS #47 is: “Togetherness”!
More about the “Young European Cinephiles” 2024 and their film series.
FR 1995. D: Mathieu Kassovitz.
US 2016. D: Travis Knight.
US/DE 2018. D: Wes Anderson.