GET INVOLVED!
DON’T JUST SIT THERE AND WATCH – »GET INVOLVED!« is the name of the participatory projects on offer before, during and after the festival week. You can participate in various ways in order to experience and understand film.
What is »GET INVOLVED!«?
Our own film selection, our presentation, my film review: The participation of young people is very important to LUCAS. Regardless if you’re a new cinema lover or a passionate cinephile from Frankfurt, the Rhein-Main area or Europe, school classes or festival guests – there are suitable »GET INVOLVED!« projects for anyone who wants to get in touch with the medium of film. You can have exciting discussions with filmmakers on eye level, in which you can explore why and how cinema lets us experience new worlds. »MITMISCHEN!« allows young people to realize many things about themselves and the world by experiencing international film culture in a collaborative setting. LUCAS puts an emphasis on film literacy projects, in which film lovers have an opportunity to explore their own ideas, work methods and decisions whilst also dealing films in either playful, analytical, participatory or intuitive ways.
Contact and Consultation:
E‑Mail: s.schmidt@dff.film
Tel: +49 (0)69 961 220 – 672
Film Talks In Advance
Quiet on set, we’re asking the questions! In the TV studio of the Medienprojektzentrum Offener Kanal Rhein-Main (MOK) young people interview filmmakers whose films are in the LUCAS competitions. Ahead of time these upcoming interviewers get to prepare for their interviews in workshops by thinking about important questions to ask: Where did this story come from? What do certain things stand for in the film? How did the actors prepare for their role? With the recorded Q&A, which can be seen in the MOK cable program, in the Mediathek Hessen and permanently on the festival homepage, everyone can experience film discussions regardless of time or place.
Click here to watch the »Film Talks in Advance« of LUCAS #46.
Critics
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 program is all about. At the festival, the participants first view several competition films and then get to the bottom of their content and aesthetic design in workshops with film educator Lara Verschragen. The resulting reviews will be published daily on the LUCAS website.
Take part and receive your free festival pass!
More information on the 2024 Critics will be published here shortly.
Here you can read the film reviews of the last years (in German):
LUCAS #46 (2023)
LUCAS #45 (2022)
LUCAS #44 (2021)
Stadtteiljury
The »Stadtteiljury« (English: “district jury”) is formed every year in a different Frankfurt neighborhood, the open offer is directed to children and young people who learn to express themselves in the project as differently as they are. This year, the »Stadtteiljury« comes from Höchst. For this, LUCAS is working together with the Jugend- und Kulturzentrum Höchst (JuKuZ).
Anyone between the ages of ten and 14 can take part. The project begins with a workshop week during the summer vacations from July 24 to 28 at the Jugend- und Kulturzentrum Höchst. There, the participants will watch short films, practise a precise, analytical view of film, decide together on evaluation criteria, deal with Web 2.0 formats for their film reviews: podcasts, interviews, vlogs and much more. During the festival, the »Stadtteiljury« then watches short film programs from the competition, debates opinions, decides on its winning film and presents it via multimedia laudation at the official award ceremony. The crowning glory: the »Stadtteiljury« presents its work and the winning film after LUCAS in Höchst. The »Stadtteiljury« project is made possible by the Hessian Ministry of Culture with funds from the Löwenstark — der BildungsKICK program.
For the multimedia film-reviews of the »Stadtteiljurys« of former festival editions (in German), click here.
More information on the »Stadtteiljury« 2024 will be published here shortly.
Young European Cinephiles 2023
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 attitude to life at LUCAS.
As part of this »Get involved!« project, six young people who have already been involved in projects at other European film festivals, cinematheques or film institutions network in the months leading up to the festival. During LUCAS, the YECs present their film series, which they have curated independently according to a specific theme or genre.
This year, teenagers and young adults from Kosovo, Slovenia and Germany are on fire for an intensive exchange. The theme of the Cinephiles for LUCAS #46: “Identity”!
More about the »Young European Cinephiles« 2023 and their film series.
More information about the »Young European Cinephiles« of the upcoming festival edition will be published here shortly.
SI 2022. D: Dominik Mencej.
XK/CH/AL/MK 2021. D: Blerta Basholli.
SE 1998. D: Lukas Moodysson.