From 27 September to 04 October, the 38th LUCAS International Children's Film Festival will take place, proving once again with its extensive programme that children's films can not always only inspire a young audience. Good children's films also captivate parents. LUCAS 2015 wants to prove this once again with competition films, which include feature films as well as some short films. In the cinemas of the Deutsches Filmmuseum, the Cinestar Metropolis and the Caligari Wiesbaden, the various festival entries will be presented, some still in the original language of their country of production. The German translation, however, will be clearly spoken for all to understand. A total of six prizes will be awarded by three juries. Among them is, of course, the Audience Award, with which the most popular film of the festival has been awarded directly by the audience since 2010.
2015 there is an interesting innovation: in its 38th edition, the film festival presents successful and popular television productions on the big screen. LUCAS and its young visitors are particularly looking forward to a visit from world explorer Willi Weitzel. The reporter and presenter known from the show "Willi wills wissen" and other TV formats will be a guest at Cinestar Metropolis on Thursday, October 1, 4 pm. Under the title "Fliehen, Flüchtling, Flucht" (Fleeing, Refugee, Escape), Willi Weitzel will present his documentary film about a refugee camp in the African country of Malawi and report on an aid project for children on the Syrian border. With this event, LUCAS follows up on its highly acclaimed 2014 thematic focus on migration and once again sheds light on the fates of children who lose their homes.
For fans of the mystery genre, LUCAS will show the series event ARMANS GEHEIMNIS (Germany 2015, Director: Alex Schmidt) on the big screen for the first time on Friday, October 2, 4 pm. Fans will see the complete first season of the family TV series produced under the auspices of WDR and broadcast on ARD at Easter. It tells the story of five young people from difficult families who experience adventures on a horse farm. Using ARMANS GEHEIMNIS as an example, the International Children's Film Festival focuses on elaborately and complexly narrated television productions.
LUCAS foregrounds the importance of children's films in international cinema and thus dispels common prejudices, such as that children's films only come from Disney or must necessarily offer great 3D computer animation or very simple jokes. Children's films can also be original, funny, moving and profound in other ways. It doesn't matter where they come from. Whether Europe, Asia or Africa, these film industries also have quite a few highlights to offer, which festival visitors young and old should definitely see for themselves.
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An article by Frankfurt-Tipp