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.

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.

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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.

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