LUCAS – International Festival for Young Film Lovers, announced the winning films of the festival in an award ceremony in Frankfurt, Germany. Lucas International Film Festival For Young Film Lovers started on September 20th and concluded on September 27th. A total of 9500 people attended this festival in its eight days duration and 21 feature films and several short films had participated at the festival competitions. Lucas International Film Festival For Young Film Lovers has nine awards that six of them is offered by Lucas . This year for the first time Cinema Without Borders award it’s GoE Bridging The…
Author: Bijan Tehrani
Bijan Tehrani
Bijan (Hassan) Tehrani Founder and Editor in Chief of Cinema Without Borders, is a film director, writer, and a film critic, his first article appeared in a weekly film publication in Iran 45 years ago. Bijan founded Cinema Without Borders, an online publication dedicated to promotion of international cinema in the US and around the globe, eighteen years ago and still works as its editor in chief. Bijan is has also been a columnist and film critic for the Iranian monthly film related medias for 45 years and during the past 5 years he has been a permanent columnist and film reviewer for Film Emrooz (Film Today), a popular Iranian monthly print film magazine. Bijan has won several awards in international film festivals and book fairs for his short films and children's books as well as for his services to the international cinema. Bijan is a member of Iranian Film Writers Critics Society and International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI). He is also an 82nd Golden Globe Awards voter.
After his mother’s sudden death, Socrates, a 15-year-old living on the margins of São Paulo’s coast, must survive on his own while coming to terms with his grief. Socrates was produced by a crew of 16-20-year-olds from the Querô Institute, a UNICEF-supported project that provides social inclusion through filmmaking to underrepresented youths in the Baixada Santista region of São Paulo, Brazil. Produced by Ramin Bahrani (99 HOMES) and filmed with a micro budget of under twenty thousand dollars, Socrates is the debut feature film from 29-year-old Brazilian-American director Alex Moratto. Bijan Tehrani: Could we call Socrates a social justice film?…
LUCAS – International Festival for Young Film Lovers was opened on Thursday September 20th at Deutsche Filmmuseum in city of Frankfurt, Germany. The opening ceremony was started by Sylvia Weber’s welcome speech. After Sylvia Weber, Programming Head of Lucas, Fleissig, Director of the festival thanked filmmakers speech, that had participated in the festival and called cooperation with Cinema Without Borders for offering the GoE Bridging The Borders Award a good opportunity. https://vimeo.com/291387989 The ceremony was followed by showing teasers from the participating films and a cocktail party and concluded by screening of Transcendence directed by Wally Pfister.
In London’s CAMA, a gallery dedicated to the contemporary and modern art and opened by Tehran’s CAMA gallery there is an exhibition of photos by Iranian Filmmakers such as Jafar Panahi, the late Abbas Kiarostami, Nasser Taghvai, Kamran Shirdel, Majid Barzegar, Ebrahim Golestan and cinematographer Seifollah Samadian. The exhibition Time Lapse is at CAMA, London, until 2 October. The Guardian has published fifteen photos of this exhibition in a photo gallery that we present it to you in the video below: https://vimeo.com/290634159 About this exhibition CAMA’s site mentions: CAMA Gallery of Iranian art presents an exhibition of photographs by 7…
LUCAS – International Festival for Young Film Lovers, has announced nominees for the Cinema Without Borders’ Bridging The Borders Award sponsored by Go Energistics. The five feature films nominated for GoE Bridging The Borders Award are: Glasses (Einak) from Iran, Girl In Flight (La Fuga) from Chile/Italy, Amateurs from Sweden, Saturday Church from US and Rafiki from Zambia. A jury of seven formed by CWB will decide the winning film and Yeganeh Taheri, Cinema Without Borders Editor in Germany will present GoE Bridging The Borders Award to the winner at the festival’s award ceremony on September 27. https://vimeo.com/290400092 Nominees: Glasses IR 2017. D: Reza Aghaei. 74 min. Fiction film. Farsi OV with Eng.…
Souls of Totality, a short film directed by Richard Raymond happens during the Great American Eclipse, this is a love story about the sacrifices we make for love. Lady 18 (Tatiana Maslany) and Guy 3 (Tom Cullen) have a secret. They are members of a cult that believes if they die during a Solar Eclipse their souls will be taken to paradise. But that’s not their secret… They are also profoundly in love. Richard Raymond to introduce Souls of Totality in the video below: https://vimeo.com/289314957 Richard Raymond started his career at Pinewood Studios when he was 15 years old, establishing himself…
Cinema Without Borders has announced its jury members to decide the winner of GoE Bridging The Borders Award at the Lucas International Festival for Young Film Lovers, Germany. LUCAS – International Festival for Young Film Lovers, is Germany’s oldest festival for young audiences. In 2018 celebrates its 41st edition this year from September 20th – 27th. Within the competition sections in the age categories 8+, 13+ and 16+ | Youngsters, LUCAS festival puts its focus on outstanding, international productions of children and youth films, including all film forms from fiction, documentary, to animation and experimental formats. Cinema Without Borders presents…
Cinema Without Borders is proud to announce its partnership with Lucas International Festival for Young Film Lovers of Germany and offer GoE Bridging The Borders Award at this amazing film festival. CWB is also a Media Partner of Lucas LUCAS – International Festival for Young Film Lovers, is Germany’s oldest festival for young audiences. To learn more about this festival Yeganeh Taheri, CWB’s German Office Editor sat down with Marie Wolters, Head of Film Literacy and school cooperation at Lucas for a video interview. https://vimeo.com/288668511 LUCAS – International Festival for Young Film Lovers celebrates its 41st edition this year from September 20th…
If you go to Brave New Films’ YouTube channel, you discover a treasure of social justice films. In this channel there are tens of films on any social justice issues that you can imagine, from universal healthcare to immigration problems, to the war in Iraq and racism and many more. You may spend months and a few hours every night to watch the informative and interesting films on Brave New Films’ YouTube channel, and never get board. Actually I have got edited to this channel. To name a few Brave New Films productions that I have watched lately I name a…
For those looking for social justice films and films about environment protection, there is a new streaming service: ECOSTREAMZ. ECOSTREAMZ is ad-free, subscription-based VOD platform delivering factual and narrative content, both feature and short about environmental, conservation, human rights and social justice-themed issues, to laptops, mobile devices and HD televisions worldwide. In these polarizing and often difficult times we currently live in, easy access to information about important environmental and societal issues is critical to raising awareness and ultimately improving the world around us. Yet, the mainstream media, only covers a fraction of the problems we face on a daily…