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FESTIVAL OF TOLERANCE
NATIONAL AND REGIONAL EDITIONS
& EDUCATIONAL MORNINGS TOUR
NARRATIVE REPORT
Organizer: Zagreb Jewish Film Festival Association
FESTIVAL OF TOLERANCE - 8. JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL ZAGREB
FESTIVAL OF TOLERANCE - 2. JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL RIJEKA
General
Round table on
Looted Art — The Monuments Men
8th Festival of Tolerance – Zagreb
Jewish Film Festival with its diverse
program, and a small two-day festival,
which was held in June in Rijeka, has attracted nearly 35,000 visitors from May
5th to May 24th 2014. During the seven
days of the film program in Zagreb, the
audience had the opportunity to see
70 movies (of which 6 films were part
of the Festival market) in Europa and
Tuškanac cinemas, and participate in
two Educational mornings, while seven
selected students from international
film academies (young film professionals) attended the 7th International
Talent Workshop. This year’s program
was enriched by the Festival Market, a
program that was launched as a pilot
project with the intention of presenting and spreading the network of
global festivals in front of a Croatian audience and professionals. This unique in
the world market has proven to be sufficiently challenging and we managed
to attract six world-renowned festivals
in very short period of time. Representatives of Helsinki DFF – DocPoint,
IDFA, LET’S CEE Film Festival, Rolling
Film Festival, Sarajevo and Pula festivals
presented themselves to the Zagreb
audience with short presentation and
screening of the film, which of course
deals with tolerance in sociological
aspect. Throughout the duration of the
film program at the Europa Cinema, in
the Müller hall, there was an exhibition
of 14 photographs, dedicated to the
20th anniversary of the Schindler’s List,
titled Photographs from the Schindler’s
List set, owned by Universal studios.
In early May an exhibition of selected
works by Slovak-Austrian painter Adolf
Frankl called Art against Oblivion –
Visions from Inferno was presented
in the Klovićevi dvori Gallery. It is an
exhibition of paintings and illustrations
of one of the most prominent artists
who addressed the Holocaust, and the
exhibition was carried out under the
auspices of the Croatian Ministry of
Culture and the City of Zagreb. Festival
reflects each year on youth activism
and regularly introduces innovations,
examines new media and encourages
engaged art to deal with the topic of
the Holocaust and tolerance. Within
this year’s program, by the direct call,
seven young street artists gave voice
to their own expression in the photographs of deportation, round-ups,
incarceration of our fellow citizens, but
also solidarity and humanity shown by
young people during World War II, and
caused great public interest because
the seven exhibits were placed in the
Centar Cvjetni, where the works were
seen by more than 20,000 people.
Festival of Tolerance – Zagreb Jewish
Film Festival is the only film festival of
its kind in the world that engages in
education about the Holocaust, with
special emphasis on the necessity of
tolerance in everyday life, trying to address pupils and students, as well as the
general public. As a necessity of developing civil society we adopted the definition of tolerance by UNESCO, written
in 1995, which says that tolerance is
respect, acceptance and appreciation
of the rich diversity of our world’s
cultures, our forms of expression and
ways of being human. It is fostered by
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knowledge, openness, communication,
and freedom of thought, conscience
and belief. Tolerance is harmony in
difference. It is not only a moral duty, it
is also a political and legal requirement.
Tolerance, the virtue that makes peace
possible, contributes to the replacement of the culture of war by a culture
of peace. In a society we accepted the
definition of tolerance that seeks to
improve the traditional perception
that it is a mere putting up with, where
majority puts up with the minority and
powerful with the powerless, with specific activities using art as a clear and
legible form and method of initiating
changes in society. It is with education
that we get to realize together with our
audience that the tolerance is based on
knowledge, openness, communication
and freedom of thought, conscience
and belief. With this idea, and programs that spread awareness about the
need for tolerance and acceptance of
diversity, with quality programs and
workshops we enrich everyday life and
build a foundation for a better coexistence through diversity and opening of
awareness and knowledge, especially in
children and young people, teaching
them that we can be accomplished
only through tolerance, peace and
good coexistence.
We express our concern over the lack
of concrete support by the institutions,
whose priority, and not only on paper,
should be the development of the civil
society and coexistence, so that one
day instead of wasting public budget to
prevent intolerance as 1,000 policemen
guard the Gay Pride in Split, they spend
these funds for progress of tolerant
society as a whole. We think that if we
do not know and do not accept the
past we cannot live well in the present
or hope for a better future. Generally
accepted distorted image of patriotism,
extolling the right-wing extremism and
closing your eyes in front of concrete
problems, avoiding concrete actions
and learning the necessity of coexistence, every day we close the doors
for the young, we do not encourage
them in their development, we do not
provide them with opportunities of
progress, and we do not urge them to
think. In the program of Educational
mornings the changes occur within
the small number (around 500) of
young participants who are looking for
answers on how to change the environment. Unfortunately, instead of having
the opportunity to encourage young
people, we are limited to rare meetings,
workshops with them several times
a year in cities and smaller towns of
the Republic of Croatia, giving them
solutions and answers to questions that
once troubled us. Mirko Ilić ended his
lecture “Symbols of Hatred” with the
message “If you want to do something
– come forward to such an organization
or any other similar organization and
ask – how I can help you? And, by the
way, if you really believe in it, you will
make your best work for them and
then someone will recognize that and
then you’ll get a nice job based on your
best works, and not counting on who
your aunt or uncle is. Being good really
pays off!”
Being good pays off is the message sent
to more than 400 young people who
participated in the program.
Educational mornings’ organized by
the Festival became an interesting and
comprehensive way of non-institutional education.
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Chantal De Rudder,
screenwriter of the Jewish Cardinal
Ralph Fiennes,
actor from the Schindler’s List
Screening of the Schindler’s List
Building a monument to tolerance
for eight years in a row now, this
festival becomes a platform where
day-in, day-out you can hear louder
and louder – “never again“, avoiding
clichés and actively acting on changes
in society. The films presented at the
Festival were chosen carefully by one
of the greatest authorities in Croatia in
the world of film, and the Holocaust
survivor – Branko Lustig. These are the
movies with a strong and clear message,
and the results are getting visible in
the wider community, thanks to the
effort of the entire Festival of Tolerance
team, and many prominent friends and
like-minded people. We are proud of
the fact that the audience gave highest
marks for the film program evaluated
as the best film program that is offered
on our micro-market, and we are especially satisfied that the average rating
by the audience was high 4.6.
The appeal of the festival was confirmed by an impressive guest-list who
shared their time and authority in
public, both in creation of films and on
the subject of tolerance.
Films like Radical Evil by the Austrian director Stefan Ruzowitzky, and
currently one of the world’s most
anticipated documentaries Night
will fall about the liberation of Nazi
concentration camps were presented
to the Zagreb audience. Documentary
talks about the horrors encountered
by Allies when they entered the
concentration camps, using archival
footage and testimonies of liberators
and prisoners. It explores how the
team of excellent filmmakers, including
Sidney Bernstein, Richard Crossman
and Alfred Hitchcock, joined forces to
make a film that provides indisputable
evidence of what the Allies have found.
Each new generation must have access
to the evidence, and Croatian audience
was among the first who had the opportunity to see it.
This year’s festival was visited by
numerous award-winning authors and
artists, and the Zagreb edition of the
festival, along with numerous guests
can highlight the support they have
expressed their visit to the Festival of
prominent European filmmakers such
as Ralph Fiennes, Jeanine Meerapfel,
Stefan Ruzowitzky, Volker Schlöndorff
and Andre Singer. Nenad Polimac, a
prominent film critic, praised the
quality of the program, saying that
“the new generation of courageous
filmmakers is the greatest discovery of
the Festival of Tolerance.” Soldier on
the Roof, Bethlehem, Heli and Class
Enemy are all achievements of the
young directors, the majority of them
debutants – Esther Hertog, Yuval Adler,
Amat Escalante and Rok Biček. A series
of world cinema films dealing with
human rights were also shown at the
Festival. If there was an award for that
category, it would most certainly go to
Amat Escalante for the Mexican drama
Heli. Escalante already got the last
years Golden Palm for Best Director in
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Mirko Ilić, author of the visual
identity of the Festival of Tolerance
and the visuals for the 20th
anniversary of the Schindler’s List
Video message from Steven
Spielberg, director of the
Schindler’s List, to the
Zagreb audience
Cannes.
Festival organizers believe that in
today’s world of endangered values
and increase of the influence of rightoriented extremism, it is necessary to
highlight positive life stories by the individuals who distinguished themselves
with courage, kindness and persistence
that every man should possess, in one
of the darkest periods of European history, the Holocaust. We wish to send
out the message to our faithful and
ever growing audience that tolerance
is a conditio sine qua non of a healthy
society that has the ability to follow
the kindness of individuals, we wish to
promote the values and criteria that
were established to combat prejudice
and promote understanding of the
different.
As we did during the previous seven
editions of the Festival, this year we
screened and promoted excellent films
from around the world. Our program
is rich with films from the region and
all the movies are recently produced
and closely associated with the themes
of the Festival – human rights and
the Holocaust. In addition, the festival
aims to promote multiculturalism and
respect and understanding among
different nations and all age groups.
This year’s festival opened with the
French feature film Jewish Cardinal,
based on the true story about JeanMarie Lustiger, a Polish Jew, who joined
the Catholic priesthood and was
appointed Bishop of Paris. There, he
openly celebrated his dual identity as
a “Catholic Jew” making friends and
enemies from both religions. Lustiger’s
split allegiance is tested to the core
when a group of Carmelite nuns decide
to build a monastery on the edge of
Auschwitz.
On May 18th, 2014, the 8th Festival of
Tolerance – Zagreb Jewish Film Festival
was opened by:
• Ms.NatašaPopović,
director of the Festival
• Mr.BrankoLustig,
president of the Festival
• Mr.MilanBandić,
Mayor of the City of Zagreb
• Ms.LeonaParaminski,
host
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Film program
Still from the motion picture Calm at Sea
Academy Award winner Volker
Schlöndorff, director of Calm at Sea
Zagreb, May 18-24, 2014,
Europa and Tuškanac cinemas
Screenings of 64 national, regional and
foreign production:
• 15 feature films
• 42 documentary films
• 7 short films
Out of more than 300 pre-selection
films, 64 were presented to the Zagreb
audience, which is 6 more than last
year. They were thematically related to
the Holocaust (theme which is covered
by the Festival from its very beginning),
but also to the tolerance in the broadest sense of the word. We kept the
practice of screening the films in two
theatres, with the traditional venue,
Europa cinema, and for the first time
since the first edition of the Festival
we returned to Tuškanac cinema. Film
program experienced a great response
from the audience and the media.
The program is special because the
movies are shown for the first time in
Croatia, and we can be proud of some
of the world’s premiers (like Croatian
documentary Some things shouldn’t be
hidden) or international premieres (like
the Austrian feature-documentary film
Shattered night). Film The Olive Tree in
the Forest had its European premiere,
and Blind Love a European festival
premiere. One of this year’s programs’
most intriguing films that Alfred Hitchcock used to work on, The Night will
Fall, we presented only the second in
the world after the Berlinale. This year’s
festival was dedicated to Schindler’s
List, one of the most famous films of
all time, film that won seven Academy
awards. Schindler’s List, filmed in 1993,
directed by Steven Spielberg is still one
of the top 10 international films. The
fact that almost 70% of young people
under 25 years of age have not even
heard of the movie is devastating, even
though the Croatian producer Branko
Lustig won an Oscar as its producer.
On May 22nd we marked 20th anniversary of Schindler’s List with special
screening. We are honoured that Ralph
Fiennes, a famous British actor, was a
special guest of the Festival. It should
be noted that the projection was attended mainly by young people.
Also, other guests of the Festival
sparked considerable interest – the
world famous representatives of the
seventh art – who presented their films
and enthusiastically responded to questions from the audience and journalists.
We should point out guest appearance
by Volker Schlöndorff, German director,
screenwriter and producer, winner of
an Oscar, Golden Palm and some thirty
other awards, who had a conversation
with the audience after his film Calm
at Sea; Stefan Ruzowitzky, Austrian
director and screenwriter, Oscar winner
for the film The Counterfeiters, who at
the Festival presented the film Radical
Evil, acclaimed by audience and critics; André Singer, a world-renowned
producer and director, with Prisoner of
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Academy Award winner Stefan
Ruzowitzky, director of Radical Evil
Paradise and The Act of Killing in his
portfolio, who presented the aforementioned film Night will fall, and Rok
Biček, whose directorial feature debut
Class Enemy won awards across Europe,
and our audience engaged in nearly
one-hour discussion with the young
filmmaker.
This year’s film program includes
many films that won awards on many
prestigious world festivals. We should
mention Jewish Cardinal by director
Ilan Duran Cohen, film that opened
this year’s Festival (Boston Jewish Film
Festival – The Audience Award for best
feature film, Seoul International Drama
Festival – Golden Bird Prize, 53rd
Monte Carlo Television Festival – SIGNIS
award, Festival de Luchon Grand Prix),
Aftermath by the director Władysław
Pasikowski, controversial film, banned
from some of the Polish theatres for interfering with Polish history (Jerusalem
Film Festival – The Avner Shalev Yad
Vashem Chairman’s Award, Polish Film
Awards – Eagle for best actor, production and design), Betlehem by director
Yuval Adler, one of the most successful
contemporary films from Israel (Israely
Film Academy award for best motion
picture, director, screenplay, supporting
actor, casting and video editing, Venice
Film Festival – award for best motion
picture), aforementioned Class Enemy
by Rok Biček (Athens Panorama of
Europeans Cinema – FIPRESCI Prize,
Bratislava International Film Festival:
best actor, FIPRESCI Prize, Grand Prix,
Castellinaria International Festival of
Young Cinema – Three Castles, Slovene
Film Festival – Association of Slovenian
Film Critics Award: Feature Film, Stop
Magazine Award: best actor, Vesna:
best motion picture, actor, supporting
actress, costumography and camera,
Venice Film Festival – Fedeora Award:
best motion picture (International Film
Critics Week) and Heli (Camerimage –
Silver Frog, Cannes Film Festival – best
director, Havana Film Festival – Grand
Coral – 1st award, Lima Latin American Film Festival – Elcine First Prize,
Montréal Festival of New Cinema 2013
– Louve d’Or, Palm Springs International
Film Festival 2014 – Cine Latino Award,
Stockholm Film Festival 2013 – best
cinematography). Documentaries that
should be mentioned are The Lady
in Number 6: Music saved my Life,
Academy Award winner for this year’s
competition in short documentaries category, Open Heart, last year’s
Academy Award nominee in short documentary category (Aspen Shortsfest
Video message from Liam Neeson,
protagonist from the Schindler’s List
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Still from the documentary Night will fall
Still from the Aftermath
– audience award; Boulder International
Film Festival – BIFF Award for best
short documentary, Newport Beach
Film Festival –Jury Award for best short
documentary), Tinghir – Jerusalem,
Echoes from the Mellah, Rabat International Film Festival best human rights
picture, Morocco Ahmed Attia Award
intercultural dialog MEDIMED, best documentary on Jewish Eye Festivalu, best
debutant – Tanger National Film Festival, best documentary – International
Berber Film Festival…) and Soldier on
the Roof (IDFA – Dioraphte Award for
best Dutch picture, jury award for the
best international film – DocAviva,
2013, Special Commendation – Rai
International; Emmy nominee in Current Affairs category, audience award
– HumanDoc, Warsaw).
After each screening we asked the audience to participate in the evaluation of
a film, giving it a score on the prepared
ballots. All films shown got fantastic
reviews and we have to point out that
among the best ones there is a very
little difference. Analysis of received ballots showed that many movies rated
an average of over 4.6 (score range
1-5). On a scale of most impressive
projections, the highest ranking got the
documentaries: The Lady in Number 6:
Music saved my Life – the average of
4.86 (109 year old Alice Herz Sommer,
the oldest living pianist and the oldest
woman Holocaust survivor shares her
insights as to how to live happily ever
after. She speaks of the vital features of
music, laughter and optimistic outlook
on life. This powerful film tells about
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her incredible story of survival and how
she managed to encourage herself and
others in a concentration camp with
her music); It’s better to jump – 4.83
average (in the historical and ancient
city of Acre in northern Israel, It’s
better to jump explores centuries old
port, and gives voice to Arab families
threatened with deportation despite
generations who call this country
home), Open Heart – average 4,79 (the
story is about eight Rwandan children
who leave their families and head out
on a journey of life and death in order
to perform high-risk heart surgery in
the only free cardiac hospital in Africa,
Salam Centre, run by Emergency, an
Italian NGO.)
Top rated feature film was Zaytoun,
with an average of 4.73 (Fahed lives in
poverty with his father in the Shatila
Palestinian Refugee Camp. His father
obsessively tends his sickly olive tree, a
remnant of the home they fled in 1948.
He refuses to plant it until they return
to their ancestral land. Bright, smart
and knowing how to work the streets,
Fahed and his group of friends are playing one day when they see something
come off an Israeli jet. What they are
not expecting to find is Yoni, a proud,
second generation fighter pilot in the
Israeli Air Force. Face-to-face with the
enemy Israeli, Fahed predictably takes
his anger out on the pilot, and receives
the same in return. It’s not until Fahed
realises that the olive tree is dying and
uses Yoni to get him past the border
Still from the Jewish Cardinal
Still from the Zaytoun
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and into Palestine to plant it).
Zaytoun and The Lady in Number 6,
got the audience award in the feature
film and documentary categories,
and they received the Tolerance
plaquette. Most popular movies were,
as expected, Schindler’s List, seen by
approximately 530 visitors (Europa cinema capacity is 503 seats) and Jewish
Cardinal, the only film shown twice, at
the same time in both theatres, seen by
total of nearly 670 visitors.
As a Festival that wants to be socially
and financially accessible to all social
groups, with the support of the City of
Zagreb as patron and all the sponsors,
as in previous years, entry was free for
all visitors.
Rijeka, June 9-10, 2014,
Art-kino Croatia
Last year’s Festival of Tolerance was
organized in Rijeka for the first time,
and the second Festival of Tolerance
was held on June 9th and 10th in the
Art-kino Croatia cinema, splendid
location in the centre of Rijeka. 7 films
selected from Zagreb program in the
categories of feature, documentary
and short films were shown during the
two days of the Festival in Rijeka. Film
program got a great response from
the audience and the media, and the
analysis of received ballots showed that
all movies rated highly (average score
was 4.6). What we do, Empty Boxcars
and Broken Silence were the highest
ranked. Approximately 200 people
attended the film program of the 2nd
Festival in Rijeka.
Still from the Radical Evil
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Educational program
Educational mornings on Holocaust
Pupil participating in
discussion after the lecture
As part of the 8th Festival of Tolerance
– Jewish Film Festival Zagreb, we
organized two educational programs
designed for elementary schools pupils
and high school and college students.
Before we invited our youth to participate in education, we sent the program
to the Ministry of Science, Education
and Sports for evaluation. The Ministry
gave recommendation for the program
which is considered suitable for teaching young people about the Holocaust.
Moreover, from day one, this program
gets the recommendation of the
Ministry of Science, Education and
Sports and the support of the Croatian
Education and Teacher Training Agency,
which cites Educational mornings as a
positive example of non-institutional
education about the Holocaust.
Program in Zagreb is organized in two
parts.
Due to the great interest, exceptional
response and numerous inquiries for its
rerun, the program intended for high
school students and college students
in Zagreb held on May 19th 2014, the
second year in a row, was hosted by
Mirko Ilić, a world-renowned graphic
designer, illustrator and lecturer, who in
recent years gets accolades from across
the region for his lecture “Symbols of
hatred”. Mirko Ilić talked about the
pervasive neo-fascist iconography in
public areas on the territory of the
former Yugoslavia, primarily Serbia,
Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia.
Displaying slides of fans, their tattoos,
choreography, web pages and banners,
pointed out the significance of the
presented symbols, seen very often, but
not aware of their origin and meaning. The emphasis of his lecture was
put on a local and regional problem
of suppression or negligence of the
public perception of these symbols
and graphic hate speech neo-Nazi
groups. Educating the audience about
how to recognize these signs, he urged
the youth to create a better society
through activism and democracy. “It is
very difficult to re-educate someone,
but it is somewhat easier to raise
someone who is young. The reason
I’m talking to you, why they are here
mostly high school students is that I
want to show you what it is – for you
to see these symbols, so you can identify them, and react earlier than when it
is already too late.” He stated elections
as the greatest power of youth to
make the change. Through his lecture,
Mirko Ilić managed to create a great
interest of the audience and develop a
fantastic discussion. The program was
attended by approximately 400 young
people. Students and teachers from ten
high schools in Zagreb, Zaprešić and
Vukovar attended the lecture, as well
as students from four colleges, and a
great number of students signed up
personally. The program is supported
by the Ministry of Science, Education
and Sports and the IHRA.
The program held on May 21st 2014
at the Europa cinema in Zagreb was
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Academy award winner Branko Lustig,
lecturer at the Educational morning
about Holocaust, with Terence Pike,
UNHCR representative in Croatia
intended for elementary school pupils
(7th and 8th grade) and high school
juniors. Again this year the program
had the highest attendance, bringing
together around 570 young people
from 17 elementary and 7 high schools.
Thanks to the now traditional cooperation with our partner, UNHCR Croatia,
students arrived from Banovina area
which was hit by the flood tragedy. The
program began with the screening of
the film Run, boy, run, the film adaptation of the Uri Orlev bestseller, directed
by Academy Award winner Pepe Danquart. It’s the true story of nine year old
Jurek, who escaped in 1942 from the
Warsaw ghetto into the woods, where
he must survive on his own until the
end of the war. He learns how to sleep
in trees and how to hunt squirrels with
his slingshot. However, coldness and
loneliness keep driving him back to
civilisation. Run, boy, run is a compelling film based on true events.
This German-French production motion picture earned three nominations
in Germany, and won the Audience
Award at the Cottbus Film Festival. It is
suitable for the pupils who visited the
program and covers perfectly topics
of the Festival as well as it promotes
its idea: acceptance of diversity, love of
others, regardless of their nationality, religion or race. The program also
brings the topic of the Holocaust closer
to the children, through the perspective of the protagonist who is of similar
age to the audience. The film had a
great response and a very good reaction from the children. The film was
shown thanks to the great help from
the Goethe Institute, and the entire
program is co-financed by the Ministry
of Science, Education and Sports and
the IHRA.
After the screening, the president of
the Festival, a double Oscar winner
and Holocaust survivor, Branko Lustig
came on stage. Building on the film, he
mentioned almost a million and a half
children who fell victims during the
Holocaust. He gave a lecture about his
own experiences in Nazi concentration camps and from his own rich life
experience pointed out the message
about the necessity of forgiveness
and love for others, and the need for
respect for every human being. “Please
remember this movie, remember that
we are here to love each other in our
beautiful country, try to erase the hatred between us if there is one – let’s all
be one and let’s fight it to make things
better.”
Then Mr. Terence Pike, UNHCR representative in Croatia and long-time lecturer at the Zagreb Educational morning took over. Having shown a short
film about the global refugee crisis, he
spoke to the pupils that there are many
children in the world who are separated from their friends, parents and
loved ones, refugees fleeing war and
persecution in the quest for peace and
security. His question about how they
promote tolerance and understanding
among themselves has encouraged
pupils to debate. “All people are equal,
there is no difference between us. We
can bring peace to the world with love
and respect”, concluded one pupil.
Mirko Ilić, lecturer
at the Educational morning,
“Symbols of Hatred”
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International Talent Workshop
ITW - JFF Zagreb
May 17-24, 2014 – HFS, locations in
Zagreb, Tuškanac cinema
International Talent Workshop
(hereinafter ITW) is a continuous part
of the Festival since 2008 when it was
founded as a documentary workshop.
Immediately after that first year the
concept was changed, based on the
offer of film workshops in the city and
country, and the first international
motion picture workshop was founded.
It consists of two courses – theory and
practice, aiming at producing short
films, which makes this workshop
unique on the Croatian market.
The subject of the workshop, in accordance with a theme of the Festival,
is tolerance, and the participants were
selected according to the quality of applications, with special emphasis on the
quality of the proposed scenarios on a
given topic and CV’s.
The objectives of the International Talent Workshop is not only to educate
and promote the young talents from
around the world but also to provide
students with theoretical lectures
and the opportunity to work in small
groups with the guidance of renowned
filmmakers; in the eight-day intensive
training they go through all the stages
of filmmaking; they create a short film
and screen it on the final day of the
Festival in Zagreb.
The first step in the organization of the
workshop is to invite tenders for a brief
synopsis of the film and the competition for the other participants of the
workshop (director, cinematographer,
video editors, sound masters). This is
followed by the selection of applied
synopsis for a short film on a given
topic.
ITW is promoted in a number of
European and international film and
educational institutions, and also by
distribution of promotional material
and contacting and cooperating with
world renowned film academies and
festivals. The target group for tender
are: students of film academies from
around the world, students of the
Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb,
Split and Rijeka.
Some of the institutions we cooperated
with are: International Film Institute of
New York, New York Film Academy,
Cinema Arts & Tech, San Francisco
School of Digital Filmmaking, Stanford
University, UCLA School of Theater, Film
and Television, Conservatoire Libre du
Cinema Francais, German Film and
Television Academy Berlin, Ecole superieure d’etudes cinematographiques
Paris, L’Escola de Cinema i Audiovisuals
de Catalunya (ESCAC), FAMU, Krakowska
Szkoła Teatralna i Filmowa, London
Film Academy, The Sam Spiegel Film &
Television School, Jerusalem, Warszawska Szkoła Filmowa, Akademija umetnosti, Beograd, Akademija scenskih
umjetnosti, Sarajevo, etc.
Tendering was open from March 6th
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Still from the ITW set of Games, acting Ema
Pražić, Jadranka Đokić and Janko Volarić Popović
ITW talents
until April 17th 2014.
The winner of this year’s screenplay
tender was young screenwriter Ana
Feil from Zagreb, whose screenplay was
made into a short film Games.
The first part of the practical aspect
of the workshop was finishing and
development of the scenario within
the group and the development of
storyboard.
The second part consists of the production and assembly of parts of the
film under the expert guidance of the
workshop’s supervisors’.
The third part consists of the lectures
by Festival guests’ and experts in specific areas. They are an integral part of the
theoretical program of the workshop
and all the lectures are in English.
Lecturers for this year’s ITW
BrankoLustig – president of the Festival, born in Osijek, Croatia and graduated in Acting from Zagreb’s Academy
of Dramatic Arts. One of the most
notable producers working today, he
is the only Croatian to have won two
Oscars (in 1994 for Schindler’s List and
in 2001 for Gladiator), alongside his
many other prestigious awards. Among
others he worked on Branko Bauer’s
Don’t Look Back, My Son (1956), Veljko
Bulajic’s Kozara (1962) and The Battle
of Neretva (1969), The Tin Drum (1979),
Sophie’s Choice (1982), Hannibal (2001),
Black Hawk Down (2001), Kingdom of
Heaven (2005) and American Gangster
(2007).
JeanineMeerapfel – Argentinian director of German ancestry, winner of numerous awards, i.e. FIPRESCI in Cannes
for Malou (1980). She has participated
in numerous festivals with her films or
as a jury member (Berlin, 1984).
StefanRuzowitzky – Austrian film
director and screenwriter. Best known
for his feature film The Counterfeiters
that won the Oscar for Best Foreign
Language Film in 2007.
BrankoLinta – born in Zagreb in 1968.
He graduated in film and television
photography from the Academy
of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb. He has
worked as director of photography on
numerous feature length films, such as
Fine Dead Girls (Fine mrtve djevojke),
100 Minutes of Glory (100 minuta
Slave), I Love You (Volim te), Nobody’s
Son (Ničiji sin), The Blacks (Crnci).
Some of the most important awards he
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has received are Golden Arena for best
photography in I Love You and Best
artistic achievement for The Blacks.
The process of talents selection – applicants fill in an online application on
the website of the Festival of Tolerance
– International Talent Workshop, made
up of a series of questions related to
education, experience, expectations
and motivation, and if applicable they
submit show reels.
Selected participants are provided
with free accommodation and food
for the duration of the workshop, and
it should be emphasized that the
workshop is free for all students and
it covers all costs of preproduction,
production and postproduction.
Foreign participants cover their travel
expenses.
ITW talents 2014
1. Terez aKovarova
(Czech Republic) – director
2. KevinPedersen (Denmark)
– director of photography
3. AndrejGeorgijev (Macedonia) –
script
4. TamaraKotevska (Macedonia) –
co-director, prop master
5. TomaZidić (Croatia) – director
assistant, video editing
6. AnaFeil (Croatia) – screenwriter /
affiliate member
7. AnitaBilandžić (Croatia) –
affiliate member
The result of the eight-day teamwork,
dedication, perseverance and innovation is a short film titled Games, which
premiered in Tuškanac cinema on May
24th, 2014 at 8.15 PM, and the Art-kino
Croatia in Rijeka, June 10th, 2014 at 9 PM.
Total number of visitors who saw the
film was 284, and the visitors rated it
with high grade 4.42.
It should be noted that this year’s
workshop, with support of partners
and sponsors, raised the standard for
future workshops visually and creatively,
producing the short film Games that
touched the hearts of the audience,
not only with its quality, but also an
exceptional subject.
This year the young participants had at
their disposal a professional HD Canon
C300 camera, video editing of the film
was done with Apple’s Final Cut Pro
system, and the final image processing
was done in a professional studio Tu
i tamo boja, by one of the lecturers
at the ITW, well-respected director of
photography Branko Linta.
Renowned theatre and film actors
Jadranka Đokić and Janko Popović
Volarić played the title roles, and the
young protagonists are participants
of the acting workshop for children
Praktikum.
We would like to point out that the
actors recognize the importance of the
project and are therefore involved in it
without any financial compensation.
Supervisors of the ITW were director
Andrej Korovljev and renowned film
editor Staša Čelan.
May 22-24, CENTAR CVJETNI
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Festival Market
Hrvoje Pukšec,
member of Art Council of Pula Film Festival
Festival market, presented for the
first time as part of the 8th Festival
of Tolerance – JFF Zagreb, in Centar
Cvjetni, May 22-24 – innovative festival
program designed as a space of communication of renowned European
and world film festivals, film industry
professionals, but also presenting festivals and their programs to the Croatian
audience, amateurs and students. This
way we can make some space for
future cooperation among festivals,
participants and visitors of the Festival
market. One of the biggest goals of the
Festival market is not only connecting,
but also the possibility of bringing
international and regional festivals to
the domestic audience. 8th Festival of
Tolerance – JFF Zagreb has hosted six
festivals in the Festival market program.
GuestFestivals
IDFA (International Documentary Film
Festival Amsterdam),
DocPoint – Helsinki Documentary Film
Festival,
LET’S CEE FILM FESTIVAL, (Vienna)
ROLLING FILM FESTIVAL, (Priština)
SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL, (Sarajevo)
PULA FILM FESTIVAL (Pula).
During the three days of Festival
market, every day two festivals were
presented, each showing one film.
Each festival offered a film that best
describes its program and subject. That
way the domestic audience had the
opportunity to see films that have
so far shown only at foreign festivals.
All three days of the Festival market
attendance was very satisfactory and
in line with expectations: there were
about 200 visitors, four presentations,
and screening of six films.
What was one of the goals – connecting representatives of various festivals
and creating a dialogue regarding the
future cooperation and joint projects
– got successfully accomplished. In
addition to a good turnout of young
film professionals and students for
their great interest in the programs of
the festival, especially the accompanying programs, such as workshop and
educational program, we can point out
a few examples of interconnection and
agreement on cooperation between individual representatives of local and visiting festivals. Nenad Puhovski, director
of Zagreb DOX festival, held a meeting
with a representative of IDFA Martijn
te Pas, as well as other representatives
of the local festivals and production
companies targeted Martijn te Pas, Ulla
Bergström (DocPoint) and Magdalena
Zelasko (LET’S CEE) for information and
discussion related to their professional
activity in the field of film or in the
organization of various festivals, such as
Oliver Sertić (Liburnija film Festival, Restart produkcija), Agron Lešdedaj (ETNO
film Festival), Hrvoje Mabić (FADE IN
production) and others.
At screenings of the films used by
17
festivals representing their program,
besides students and film professionals,
the audience consisted of high school
students, as well as elderly who had the
opportunity to see these films thanks
to the Festival Market program. After
the screenings there were discussions
between representatives of the festival
and the audience who was asked many
questions and offered a lot of insight,
thanks to the interesting and intriguing
topics presented by films.
Ulla Bergström, executive director,
DocPoint Helsinki Film Festival
Magdalena Zelasko,
director, LET’S CEE Film Festival
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PROGRAM
May 22nd – Thursday
6 PM – presentation LET’S CEE FILM
FESTIVAL (Magdalena Zelasko)
7 PM – screening of the film Home 26’
LET’S CEE Film Festival is held every
year in Vienna and presents films from
Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). One
of the main goals of the festival is to
promote and distribute films from
Central and Eastern Europe at the
international level, as well as creating a
sort of a forum for the promotion of
cooperation of film professionals from
the region.
MagdalenaŻelasko, founder and
director of the festival, originally from
Poland, has been living in Vienna
for over 15 years now. The university
lecturer with focus on culture and
communication is also involved in a
number of associations and supports
several non-profit organisations
8 PM – presentation IDFA Amsterdam –
Martijn te Pas
8.30 PM – screening of the film Matt
Shepard is a friend of mine 89’
IDFA is one of the world’s leading
documentary film festivals. The focus
of the festival is promotion and presentation of creative documentaries.
For this purpose in addition to the
international film program, during the
festival are held various workshops,
forums and lectures (IDFAcademy).
Also, two very important film markets
for promotion and distribution of
documentary films are held every year
during the festival – Docs for Sale and
IDFA Forum.
MartijntePas, as the coordinator of
the International Documentary Film
Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) program
department he is responsible for overseeing all research activities, processing
and viewing film festival entries. He
selects the short films, music films and
compiles the IDFA Competition for
Student Documentary. He has been
working for IDFA since 2000.
May 23rd – Friday
6.30 PM – presentation Rolling FF
(video message by Milica Milović)
7 PM – screening of the film Our School
94’
ROLLING FILM FESTIVAL
Thanks to its program and activities
Rolling Film Festival has become most
respected event in Kosovo in the
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context of the integration of Roma
community and culture. Every year it
brings new films that promote and
encourage society of equality without
discrimination as well as the presentation of the diversity and richness of the
Roma culture.
MilicaMilović has been on the Rolling
Film Festival production team since
2010 as a project developer and project
manager. Milica is Executive Coordinator of Volunteers’ Center of Vojvodina
from Novi Sad, she works in the field of
peace promotion, social justice, sustainable development, respect of environment, education and integration of
marginalized and minority groups,
especially with Roma.
8.30 PM – presentation DocPoint
Festival (Ulla Bergström)
9 PM – screening of the film 6954
Kilometers to Home 56’
DocPoint – HELSINKI
DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
One of the largest documentary film
festivals in the Nordic countries that is
held in Helsinki and Tallinn. The festival
program, except presentation of recent
documentaries, with a heavy emphasis
on Finnish documentary production,
includes a variety of lectures, seminars
and master classes. Documentary
program for children and youth DOKKINO is important part of the festival
program.
UllaBergström has been working as
Executive Director at DocPoint –
Helsinki Documentary Film Festival
since August 1st 2012. Before DocPoint,
Bergström worked at Turku European
Capital of Culture 2011 Programme
team as a Production Coordinator. Bergström also has worked as
an animation director, animator and
character designer. She regularly
lectures about media production and
animation expression and acts as Vice
President on the board of Cinemaja, association for film events in the Helsinki
Metropolitan Area.
May 24th – Saturday
11 AM – presentation Pula Film Festival
(Hrvoje Pukšec)
11.30 AM – screening of the film Circles
113’
PULA FILM FESTIVAL
Pula Film Festival has great significance
as the oldest national film festival in
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the world. In addition to screening
recent Croatian films, festival regularly
offers international program as well as a
variety of thematic programs and retrospectives. Pula Film Festival takes place
in the famous Arena and several other
locations in Pula, and it is one of the
most visited cultural events in Croatia.
HrvojePukšec has been a member of
the Croatian Society of Film Critics and
is currently a Coordinator for international communications and member of
their Council. Since 2014 he has been
a member of Art Council of Pula Film
Festival, where he has been working as
spokesperson for the last seven years.
5 PM – presentation SARAJEVO FF
(Garret Tankosić Kelly)
5.30 PM – screening of the film Finding
Family 56’
SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL
One of the most important festivals
in South East Europe held in Sarajevo
with over than 100.000 visitors every
year. SFF is an international film festival
with a special focus on the region
of Southeast Europe, with organized
various high-quality educational and
developmental programs and wide
networking platform is created during
the festival and throughout the year.
GarretTankosićKelly – has been
involved in films in Ireland and abroad
since the 1980’s working on major
Hollywood films as a Trainee Assistant
Director as well as local documentary
productions. Having spent 14 years
working with the United Nations in the
Republics of Former Yugoslavia – with
his last posting as the Head of the United Nations in Montenegro during the
period of their push for Independence
– Garret left the UN for family reasons.
He began working once again in film
and journalism and academic writing
for the Irish Time s as well as local
newspapers on amongst other issues
Irish Film Makers and Film Festivals in
the region. His many endeavours in the
culture and media industries include
numerous articles and papers about
film for both the local and international media. He has extensive links to
the European/Irish film industry. Garret
current lives in Sarajevo and is an Executive Producer on an in production
called Finding Family about an orphan
from Sarajevo searching for his Mother.
When we talk about the future of the
Festival market, it is important to emphasize that a large number of festivals
(17 of them) have expressed a clear
interest in participating in the Festival
market at the Festival of Tolerance –
JFF in 2015.
Some of these festivals are: Film de
femmes (France), Athens International Film Festival, Sheffield Film
Festival (London), One World Film
Festival (Czech Republic), Monaco
International Film Festival, Krakow Film
Festival, San Sebastian Human Rights
Film Festival, Locarno Film Festival,
Millennium Film Festival (Brussels),
Trieste Film Festival, CinEast Festival
(Luxembourg).
Garret Tankosić Kelly,
Sarajevo film festival
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Exhibitions
This Festival is an important public
platform that every year gets visited
by more and more people and ever so
clearly reminds us of the terrors of the
Holocaust: it should not be forgotten!
and it mustn’t happen ever again!
Through the programs on offer, we are
working on the prevention of discrimination, racism, homophobia, xenophobia and general violations of the rights
of minority groups, striving towards a
developed society where most people
do not perceive that minority as a
threat to their own identity. We believe
that it is possible to fight against hate
speech and prejudice, working on that
every such incident clearly and timely
gets condemned by the public and relevant institutions. Thus arose the need
and desire to present an art exhibition
by painter and Holocaust survivor
Adolf Frankl, called Visions from Inferno – Art against oblivion in Zagreb,
the Croatian capital. Visits of elementary and high schools were organized
with professional guidance through
the exhibition, and we attempted
to direct the children in morally and
historically right direction, showing
them through artistic expression how
tragic Holocaust was and how many
lives of Roma, homosexuals, Jews and
other innocent victims it took. The
exhibition was accompanied by a film
about the life and work of the artists.
Through the next few years there will
be very few witnesses who will be able
to tell personal stories and memories of
what happened during the Holocaust.
And when the last survivor is gone, the
legacy will remain only in memories for
future generations to ensure that the
history of the Holocaust is not forgotten. Exhibition of Adolf Frankl Visions
from Inferno – Art against Oblivion is
the heritage through the visual arts for
generations to witness the truth about
the Holocaust. The emphasis on the
arts, derived from Holocaust victims
restores dignity to those who were
killed. Only using education can we
teach all levels of society about human
responsibility in civil society, to speak
up, to prevent and stop the hatred,
disrespect for diversity and make us
free from prejudice.
Surrounded by countries like Hungary,
Slovakia, Austria, Bulgaria, Romania and
not far from Greece, we are riddled
with tension and are in danger of an
explosion of right wing extremism like
never before. Almost every day in the
past couple of months, we are faced
with neo-Nazism and fascism. At the
end of 2013, two specific incidents in
Croatia made global news, making us
ashamed to live here but at the same
time giving us hope that now is the
perfect opportunity to teach tolerance
and raise awareness among young people. One, a civilian initiated referendum,
supported by radical right wing conservatives, passed in Croatia with a vote
of 2:1 in favour of an amendment to
the Croatian constitution which now
defines marriage as the union of a man
and a woman. Two, a Croatian soccer
player was sanctioned by FIFA because
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he rallied the crowd at a soccer match
with fascist Ustaša hate speech. These
two events make it clear that fascism
and neo-Nazism is alive and well in
Croatia despite the fact that the current government is left wing liberal and
that we entered the EU only recently.
Inge Frankl, Andrea Zlatar Violić,
Thomas Frankl and Andrea Ikić Böhm
at the opening of the exhibition
Adolf Frankl – Art against Oblivion
ADOLF FRANKL “ART AGAINST
OBLIVION – VISIONS FROM
INFERNO“
Gallery Klovićevi dvori,
May 5-25, 2014
Adolf Frankl was born in 1903 in
Bratislava, Slovakia. After primary and
secondary education he enrolled in the
art history and painting studies under
František Reichentál i Gustáv Mallý in
Bratislava. After college he entered the
interior decoration business with his
father, got married and founded his
own firm that was later expropriated
through aryanisation. In September
1944, Adolf Frankl was arrested in
Bratislava and taken to the Slovakian
concentration camp Sered’ and little
afterwards deported to AuschwitzBirkenau. His family was hiding at
various locations in Bratislava and
they survived. After the evacuation of
Auschwitz-Birkenau, Frankl survived in
the typhus-ridden barracks in Althammer where he was liberated by the Red
Army on January 27th, 1945. In late April
of the same year he returned to Bratislava and began the cycle „Visions from
the Inferno – Art against Oblivion”.
The 1949 communist regime forced
Frankl to leave his „beloved hometown”,
as Bratislava is often called in the titles
of his paintings, again. In the 1950 he
migrated with his family and after living
in different world cities for some time,
he finally settled in Vienna, where he
continued to create until his death on
August 18th, 1983.
In addition to the artist’s memories
of war and sketches, in Frankl’s works
there are many reflections, full of
obvious and hidden comparisons,
symbols and metaphors. In such way
Frankl makes a construction of the
face of Adolf Eichmann out of the
suffering victims’ bodies’, Adolf Eichmann – anthropomorphic view, while
countless faces, figures and outlines of
the buildings in Bratislava, like a mosaic,
can be found on the Remembering
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Ralph Fiennes and Branko Lustig at the
exhibition of photographs from the set
of Schindler’s List
the Rabbis from Bratislava. Bratislava,
as an important element of Frankl’s
inspiration, is beautifully illustrated in
the painting Approaching doom where
the sky above the picturesque town is
full of mysterious faces and images that
symbolize the imminent disaster.
Dynamics, inherent to Frankl’s images,
is aimed at showing the transformation
of human nature when it comes to disorder and chaos. These transformations
are shown metaphorically, even in the
context of naive art.
Son of Adolf Frankl, Mr. Thomas Frankl,
opened the Art Forum gallery in
Vienna in 2006, on Judenplatz, Jewish
Square, the historic centre of Vienna’s
Jewish life. In addition to the permanent exhibition in Vienna, Frankl’s
paintings were presented on a variety
of important exhibitions over the last
forty years in Austria, Germany, Israel,
Poland, USA, Italy and Slovakia.
Frankl has devoted more than 50
years of his life to art. His works were,
to some extent, inspired by Chagall,
Picasso, as well as less-known artists.
Studying painting in interwar Central
Europe, the artist could not remain immune to the major artistic tendencies
that have drastically changed the visual
arts. Although the Holocaust is not the
only theme that Frankl dealt with, it
still is a central focus of his work. According to the recollections of Thomas
Frankl, Adolf’s son, Mr. Frankl never
talked much about experiences during
the Holocaust, but he expressed his
memories through his art. The whole
project “Vision from the Inferno” is under the auspices of the UN since 1996.
After Zagreb, the exhibition will be
shown in Sarajevo, within the regional
activities of the Festival of Tolerance,
and negotiations are under way for
Ljubljana and Belgrade.
The exhibition was viewed by 963 visitors. Entry was free.
School of applied arts and design
Zagreb, Hospitality school Utrine,
elementary school Lauder-Hugo Kon,
high-school students from Našice,
Vinkovci, and others were only some of
the visitors.
EXHIBITION – PHOTOGRAPHS
FROM THE “SCHINDLER’S LIST” SET
8th Festival of Tolerance – JFF Zagreb
decided to dedicate part of this year’s
program to the feature film Schindler’s
List. 20 years after its creation, as part of
the festival program, in the foyer of the
Europe Cinema for the very first time
in Croatia we could see the exhibition of photographs from the set of
Schindler’s List, all property of Universal
Studios. Famous actor Ralph Fiennes
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Slaven Lunar Kosanović,
artistic intervention on a photograph
of the Maksimir Stadium
Street Art against Oblivion
visited the exhibition and together
with Mr. Branko Lustig recalled filming.
The exhibition was seen by 3850 visitors.
STREET ART AGAINST OBLIVION
May14th,2014,Wednesday,2PM
HomeoftheCroatianAssociationof
Artists,Žrtavafašizmasquare16
May15-25th,2014inCentarCvjetni,
PetraPreradovićaSquare6/1
Considering public space an excellent
platform for communication with
citizens through art and with the desire
to include in the Festival activities
cooperation with urban subculture
groups, associations and organizations
whose ideas of acceptance, the right
to diversity, art and education are the
focus of action, the need to draw attention to graffiti and inscriptions that
appear every day on the streets, sports
stadiums and similar sites, the Festival
has recognized an opportunity to point
out to the citizens the unacceptable
messages that promote hatred, intolerance and fascism.
Communicating with the public
through street art, our desire is to
convey how tragic Holocaust was and
how many lives of children, women,
elderly, Roma people, homosexuals, Jews and other innocent victims
were taken, with a special focus on
the victims of Zagreb. In collaboration
with young Croatian artists we have
organized an urban intervention on
the photographs of places that have
special meaning. Places of deportations,
destruction, imprisonment... With their
work, Ana, Sretan Bor, Lunar, Miron,
Pukovnik Kesovija, Berislav and Stipan
will pay tribute to the shadows of our
fellow citizens.
Photographs: Filip Beusan
• Zagrebačkizbor, today Studentski centar, French pavilion
• Ustašajail,on Žrtava fašizma
square, today student polyclinic
• Praška, ex synagogue
• Mainrailwaystation
• Zavrtnica, ex transit camp,
barracks
• GymnasiuminKrižanićeva,
detention camp before
deportation
• MaksimirStadium, now
Stadium FC Dinamo
AutHorS
Ana Belošević
Born in 1979, Ana graduated from the
Academy of Fine Arts in 2006. Since
then she’s been flirting with sculpture,
painting, animation, ambient installation and performance. She’s been
creating covers for Algoritam publishing house. Ana exhibited in several solo
and group exhibitions, is a proud associate of DD produkcija and a favourite
teacher in Trades and Crafts School.
Sretan Bor
Illustrator and muralist, graduated from
the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb,
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member of the Croatian Association
of Artists and Master Jury Member at
Sint-Lucas Beeldende Kunst in Gent,
Belgium. Since 2006 he’s been practicing urban interventions under the
moniker Pas (Dog) and later Sretan Bor
(Happy Pinetree). A regular participant
of festivals in the region such as MUU
Zagreb, Sinestezija Herceg Novi, Škver!
from Mali Lošinj. Member of the exgroup Art of Asfalt which promoted
urban art. He has exhibited in numerous exhibitions in Croatia, Slovenia,
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Austria,
Germany, Italy, France, Netherlands,
Turkey... For five years he worked as
an animator for children’s program on
Croatian Television. He lives and works
between Belgrade (Serbia) and Osijek
(Croatia). Sretan Bor is Mario Kolarić.
Slaven Lunar Kosanović
Slaven Lunar Kosanović is a Zagrebbased artist who emerged from the
early Croatian graffiti scene painting,
exhibiting and publishing his works
worldwide.
He has visited numerous cities across
the globe including Amsterdam,
Athens, Auckland, Berlin, Hanoi, Lisbon,
London, Melbourne, New York, Oslo,
Paris, Saigon, Seoul, Sydney and Tokyo.
He lists Playboy, Outdoor advertising
magazine, Forbes magazine, Nissan and
Hope Box among his clients.
Miron Milić, intervention on a photograph
of a Križanićeva Gymnasium hallway,
Street Art against oblivion
Miron Milić
Miron Milić was born in 1980 in Croatia where he enrolled at the School of
Applied Arts. Eight years later, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts
in Zagreb where his interests focused
on drawing and illustration. Up to
now, Miron has worked as an illustrator
for various advertising agencies, book
publishers, record labels, and magazines
both in Croatia and abroad. Miron
is one of the most notable Croatian
street artists and his works have been
exhibited in Berlin, Kiev, Vienna, Zürich,
Madrid and Montpellier. Some of his
better known clients include Playboy
Magazine and Ellesse Sportswear.
Marko Nujić
Marko Nujić is a graphic designer from
Zagreb. He was born in 1980, and has
been drawing since forever. Apart from
his work as a freelance designer / illustrator, his major interest, for more than
half of his life so far, is graffiti art, as well
as, more recently, paper collage.
Berislav Šimičić
Born in Našice, works in Zagreb, where
he graduated from the Academy of
Fine Arts in 2006. Berislav is an illustrator and „street artist“, and he has had
solo and group exhibitions in Rovinj,
Zadar, Zagreb and Velika Gorica.
Stipan Tadić
Stipan was born in Zagreb in 1986. He
graduated from Academy of Fine Arts
in Zagreb in 2011. in the class of prof.
Kauzlarić Atač. His first solo exhibition
is in 2009 in Vladimir Bužančić gallery,
Remetinec culture centre, Zagreb. Since
then he participated in solo and group
exhibitions in country and abroad.
Stipan won numerous awards and
since 2010 he is a member of Croatian
Association of Artists. He lives and
works in Zagreb.
Exhibition in an open space of Centar Cvjetni
Street Art against Oblivion
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Literary evenings
& Round tables
This year Festival of Tolerance continues
with literary evenings that raise awareness for the need to talk about Festival
related topics on all artistic levels and
to develop civil dialogue with topics
being critically questioned.
The program of literary evenings begun
in 2013 and as a part of this year’s Festival two books will be presented:
“THE LAST JEW OF TREBLINKA”
CHIL RAJCHMAN
May22nd,2014,INSTITUTFRANÇAIS,
Medijateka,Preradovićeva5
This exquisite and crushing memoir was
originally written in Yiddish and was
translated by famous writer Gilles Rozier (author of bestseller „Love without
Resistance”) who will be the guest of
this evening and talk about the art of
translating.
Publisher Seid Serdarević will also participate as a guest during this literary
evening. The program is carried out in
cooperation with Institute Français and
publishing house Fraktura.
GillesRozier – He graduated from
l’Essec business “Grande école” in 1984
and started learning Yiddish in 1986 at
the Hebrew University. He continued
his Yiddish studies in Paris with Yitskhok Niborski and Rachel Ertel and in
Jerusalem with Avraham Nowershtern
and Chone Shmeruk. He completed his
PhD in Yiddish literature on the life, literary work, and the cultural activity of
the Yiddish writer Moyshe Broderzon.
Since 1994 Gilles Rozier serves as the
director of the Medem Yiddish library
in Paris. In 2006 he created Gilgulim,
a Yiddish literary magazine. Gilles
Rozier’s novels include Un amour sans
résistance (translated into Love without
Resistance in Great Britain and into The
Mercy Room in the US), La Promesse
d’Oslo, which has been translated up
to now into Dutch and German, and
Projections privées.
Author
ChilRajchman, born on June 14, 1914
in Lódź. He survived the hell of Treblinka. After escaping from the camp,
he was hiding until the end of the war.
Notes on his life in the camp were
made immediately after the escape, but
he kept them for himself. In 1946 he
immigrated to Uruguay where he died
in 2004. Until then, many have heard
of his testimony, but only family members had a chance to read his book.
Published for the first time in 2009 in
publishing house Les Arenes in Paris,
his book has so far been translated into
dozens of languages.
“HENOK”
IVAN KLARIĆ
May23rd,2014,
BOOKSA,Martićeva14d
There are three problems in the core of
this historical novel: death, creation and
history. The main character Izak Perlberg, journalist, fights the demons of
creations, but his life and his perspec-
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tive on world change when he meets
Sophie, a German girl of noble descent
who fled from Hitler’s Germany. Izak
changes with her and goes back to
poetry which will give whole another
meaning to his departure to concentration camp.
Author
IvanKlarić, born in 1972 in Šibenik
where he attends elementary and
middle school, and graduates from Law
University in Split. He likes music and
studies philosophy and religion. Until
now he published three poetry collections: Ruže i ništavilo, Mjesečeva kuća
and Noino zrcalo. The first two collections were published via DHK-Ogranak
in Rijeka in 2006 and 2009, while
the third was published by Naklada
Bošković as well as the novel Henok.
He was also published in magazines:
Forum, Republika etc. He lives and
works in Šibenik.
ROUND TABLE “LOOTED ART –
THE MONUMENTS MEN”
MuseumofArtsandCrafts,
May9th,2014
As to present to the wide audiences
topics that are close and interesting
to the festival and encouraged by
the success of “Monuments Men” by
Robert Edsel and the eponymous Hollywood blockbuster, we have decided
to dedicate this year’s round table to
the issues of art that was looted during
wartime, controversial questions of
origin in various private and museum
collections as well as real problems
concerning return and restitution of
art-pieces on the level of state policies, especially to the chapter about
deserving individuals who had, through
professional involvement, in various
ways helped to prevent manipulations,
finding the missing artworks, saving the
cultural heritage...
Dražen Ilinčić, our prominent TV
journalist will moderate the round
table with participation of Mr. Seid
Serdarević from publishing house
Fraktura that published the book “The
Monuments Men”.
Participants of the round table “Looted
art – The Monuments Men”:
MiroslavGašparović – art historian,
director of the Museum of Arts and
Crafts and host to the very manifestation. From 1995 until 2003 Gašparović
was the senior curator and Head of
paintings and graphics collections of
the museum. Prior to that, from 1983
Museum of Arts and Crafts,
round table on
Looted art – The Monuments Men
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Medijateka, promotion of the Chil
Rajchman book — The last Jew of Treblinka
to 1994, he led the Italian masters’
collection at Strossmayer’s Gallery of
Old Masters at Croatian Academy of
Sciences and Art. He is the author of
numerous scientific and professional
critic reviews and essays on art, since
2000 he teaches at the Academy of
Fine Arts in Zagreb. As the host and
Museum director he will talk about
his own professional experiences and
issues of art collection provenance.
AntonijaMlikota – art historian,
assistant at the Department of Art
History at the University of Zadar. She
graduated in Art History and Sociology
at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zadar,
and received Ph.D. in 2013 at the Department of Art History at the Faculty
of Arts in Zagreb. During the research
for her dissertation she dealt with
the specific theme of “Monuments
Men” - Roberts’ Commission archive
with data on the territory of the former
Yugoslavia with the list of the most
important monuments and artworks,
and field reports about alienation and
resettlement during World War II.
BrankaŠulc – archaeologist, curator,
author of numerous publications,
prominent cultural worker. Retired
advisor and assistant of the Ministry of
Culture, appointed as President of the
International Commission for return of
cultural goods of Republic of Croatia,
Serbia and Montenegro, worked at the
Ministry of Culture. She’s also president
of Commission for achieving agreement on succession of archival records
of former Yugoslavia and restitution
of archival material from the Republic
of Austria. Member of the Croatian
Commission of UNESCO and winner
of multiple awards and recognitions
among which is medal of the Order of
Danica Hrvatska with Marko Marulić
for special merits in culture.
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Music program
Free screenings, lectures, workshops,
exhibitions, literary evenings and
various educational facilities are only
part of the 8th edition of the Festival
of Tolerance – JFF Zagreb. Every year
the festival strives to present the best
possible music program with the intention of attracting a greater number of
younger audience and to introduce
additional styles of music such as
klezmer music, developed as a blend of
different cultures and traditional Jewish
music. It creates a pleasant atmosphere
for dancing with the rhythms of jazz.
In addition to many years of excellent
performances klezmer bands, the
festival boasts a film festival with top
quality program of electronic music.
So far, it has hosted many renowned
foreign and domestic producers and
DJs such as: Phon.O, Clonious, Cid Rim,
LeFto, Romare, KU BO/Stereotyp, Ogris
Debris, CFSN DJs and many more.
Wednesday, May 21st, 2014
@ VIP club
TrgbanaJosipaJelačića9
VITA MAVRIČ &
AKORD QUARTET (SI)
Jewish chansons ethno concert
Vita Mavrič is famous, award-winning
Slovenian musician and singer-songwriter. Her new project is a collection
of both cheerful and melancholic
Jewish klezmer chansons that emerged
from the myriad of traditional and
timeless tunes which had the key role
in European music art development.
Especially interesting translations and
rich music adaptation are masterfully
handled on her album “Mandeljni in
rozine” (“Almonds and raisins”). The
main feature of Vita Mavrič’ opus are
beautifully melancholic vocal expressions that grow into passionate lyrics
and music interpretation.
Friday, May 23rd, 2014 @ VIP club
TrgbanaJosipaJelačića9
JOYCE MUNIZ (Exploited / AT)
Funk Guru & phillipe b2b (CFSN)
Lucija & Maja Pa b2b
Born in 1983 in Sao Paulo, Joyce Muniz
arrived in Vienna during the midnineties and was soon introduced to
the vibrant Viennese electronic music
scene. Short after her first DJ gig at
the tender age of 16, she began collaboration with impressive list of artists:
Markus Dohelsky aka Shanti Roots (Vienna Scientists) and I-Wolf (Sofa Surfers/Klein Records), Stereotyp, Cusmos
(Kruder & Dorfmeister label G-stone),
Flore, Buscemi and Skero. Her first solo
release “Party Over Here“ DJ Mag has
hailed “the electro single of the month”.
Her second release “Bedstories”, heavy
pumping big-boned party house, and
“Pulp Fiction”, her 3rd release, were for
the Berlin label Exploited.
Joyce Muniz is featured as a singer on
the current Munk Album “The Beat
and the Bird”. In “New in Town” Joyce
teams up with Sketch, “Pray for Peace”
is pure tropical future afro house
while “Back Down” is jacking house
in the sense of Sneak but with those
melancholic Julio Bashmore moments.
“Messing With My Mind” Ep (part 1
and part 2) were released to the top of
the Beatport charts in March and June
2012. It features a Joyce Muniz exclusive
remix of the MFiddler track “When the
Morning Comes”.
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vip club
Vita Mavrič & Akord kvartet
vip club
Joyce Muniz
In addition to her DJing and production work, Joyce earned an Amadeus
(Austrian equivalent to a Grammy)
for her vocal work with Austrian rapper Skero. Furthermore, Joyce Muniz
released the Ep “Droppin’ Pressure”
on legendary UK House Label 20/20
Vision. Now, Brazilian-raised, Viennabased producer returns on Exploited
with her tightest, deepest house yet:
“Please Break My Heart” feat. Dave.
Lately, Richie Hawtin featured a new
tune of hers in his Boiler Room Set: A
collaboration of rapper Baby Bam from
legendary Hip-Hop group The Jungle
Brothers.
Saturday, May 24th, 2014 @ Klub
PavlaHatza16
PHILLITCHEVANJE (itch&phillipe)
Anto (Bounce, Whateverest)
Programmed for party, they combine
the incompatible. Their music is futureretro and they are eternal children
who replaced their toys with mixing
equipment.
Phillitchevanje is musically more
laid-back program organized by two
cfsn DJs. For that occasion they are
taking off their nerdy uniforms and are
indulging themselves in true boyish
impulses where there are no boundaries and no rules. They are not nostalgic
nor do they think that ten years ago
everything was better, but instead they
are more than happy to remember the
moments when we used to play in
front of MTV/VIVA TVs.
Phillitchevanje is a parade of wellknown old and new music numbers
mixed with love and feeling for rhythm
by the old dancing music-lovers.
Klub
Phillitchevanje
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Evaluation of project results
1.
Number of visitors
0f film screenings
8027 - Zagreb,
197 - Rijeka
2.
Number of visitors
Educational mornings – 998
3.
Number of attendants and visitors of the follow-up activities:
round table, exhibitions, music
program, literary evenings –
25.682
4.
5.
Number of films;
Zagreb
a) film program; 64 screenings –
national, regional and foreign
production: 15 feature films, 42
documentary films, 7 short films
b) Festival market: 6 festivals attended Festival market; 6 screenings
Rijeka
a) film program: 7 screenings –
national, regional and foreign
production: 2 feature films, 3
documentary films, 2 short films
Evaluation of the film program:
average mark: 4.6
highest mark for feature film: 4.73
highest mark for documentary
film: 4.86
6.
Number of Festival guests – 46
7.
Media coverage and the number of distributed promotional
materials – 401 media advertisements in total, out of which 71%
were on web portals
(www.tportal.hr – 21 ads,
www.net.hr – 17 ads,
www.vecernjilist.hr – 14 ads...);
AVE – 4,570,427.22 kn
PRV – 17,623,246.92 kn
8.
Monitoring the contribution
of voluntary work that relates
to the quality of production
of the project (each year the
interest of the volunteers for
the Festival is growing); this year
we had 70 volunteers of all age
groups – Intergenerational
Solidarity Project.
9.
Following and evaluating the
quality of films by the audience
– the whole film program got high
ratings; average mark of the film
program is 4.6 (ratings are 1-5) in
Zagreb and same in Rijeka.
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Intergenerational solidarity project
For several years in a row, the organizer
of the Festival conducts the development of intergenerational solidarity as
a pilot project, opening the possibility
for all generations to participate as
volunteers in the organization and implementation of the project. Numerous
applications and the interest shown for
volunteering at the 8th Festival of Tolerance JFF Zagreb are the best indicators
that the Festival is on the right track to
achieve goals that have been set.
Through this project, we encouraged
the elderly in the Republic of Croatia
to volunteer and socialise at the film
festival. Volunteers aged 15 to 80+
engaged themselves in the project,
which showed us that in Zagreb and
Croatia there is an interest for active
involvement of all the generations in
community work. We must emphasize
that volunteers, actively participating
in the organization of the Festival with
their suggestions and ideas, have also
enriched this year’s Festival.
A call for volunteers has been closed
two weeks before the deadline because
of the large number of applications we
had received. Altogether, 70 volunteers
were involved in the project in Zagreb
and, judging by the number of applications and the shown enthusiasm, we
can happily and with confidence conclude that there will be opportunity for
all of those we couldn’t accept this year.
We will be counting on them in the
years to come because only with them
we can continue to develop the project
recognized by wider public.
We believe that the next year our
project will be recognized by some
other institutions with which we could
further improve it and thus invite others to follow this idea of the Festival of
Tolerance – Jewish Film Festival.
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RalphFiennes
Festival of Tolerance Guests
Volker
Schlöndorff
Jacques
Ouaniche
Georg-Christian Stefan
Lack
Ruzowitzky
Andrea
IkićBöhm
Bob Entrop
OrhanGaljuš
Chantal
DeRudder
DanTana
AndréSinger
RokBiček
EdGaffney
Jeanine Meerapfel
Ottfried
Fischer
Ulla
Bergström
Hermann
Weiskopf
Richard Peter
Benson Mair
Simon
Wieland
MartijntePas
VitaMavrič
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Ralph Fiennes, Laura Coates, Dan
Tana i Biljana Strezovski, André Singer,
Stefan Ruzowitzky, Jacques Ouaniche
i Laure Balzan Ouaniche, Mirko Ilić,
Jeanine Meerapfel, Bob Entrop, Orhan
Galjuš, Ed Gaffney and Aine O’Healy
Gaffney, Volker Schlöndorff, Hermann
Weiskopf, Peter Mair, Simon Wieland,
Richard Benson, Ottfried Fischer, Tom
Sharir, Chantal De Rudder, Kamal
Hachkar, Rok Biček, Martijn Te Pas, Ulla
Bergström, Magdalena Zelasko, Patrick
Zwerge, Garret Tankosić Kelly, Kayvan
Mashayekh, Vita Mavrič, Zvonimir
Zvonar, Maja Šubarić Mahmuljin, Valerija Bužan, Nives Jagodić, Lidija Špegar,
Maja Čuljak, Doris Schechter, Elissa
Blaser, Denise Benmosche, Xavier Sarras,
Gilles Rozier, Ivan Klarić, Hrvoje Pukšec,
Joyce Muniz, Thomas Frankl, Inge Ruth
Frankl.
KamalHachkar
MirkoIlić
Milan Bandić, mayor of the City
of Zagreb; Zrinka Vrabec Mojzeš,
President of the Republic of Croatia
Social Activities Advisor; Stipe Mesić,
Andrea Zlatar Violić, Agi Da-Don and
Kotel Da-Don, H.E. Moulay Abbès El
Kadiri, Abelaziz Tadjousti, Nouza Sahel
(Morocco Embassy), Marc van der
Linden (Netherlands Embassy), Boris
Ljubičić, Josipa Lisac, Damir Terešak,
Ognjen Sviličić, Vojo Šiljak, Mira Wolf,
Lordan Zafranović, Hrvoje Hribar, Silvija
Luks, Luciano Prelević, Dubravka Šuica,
Anita Malenica, Ljubo Šikić, Slavko
Goldstein, Nenad Puhovski, Đurđa
Tedeschi, Jelena Veljača, Dubravka Jusić,
Vlatka Kolarević, rev. Milan Dančuo, H.E.
Andrea Ikić Böhm (Austria Embassy),
Georg-Christian Lack, Terence Pike, Bojana Gavrilov, Vladimira Spindler, Davor
Štern, Alfi Kabiljo, g. Josip Roglić, Orbico Member of the BoD, Damir Urban,
Milica Czerny Urban and numerous
other dignitaries and guests from different spheres of social and public life.
Magdalena
Zelasko
Doris
Schechter
Denise
Benmosche
ZvonimirZvonar
JoyceMuniz
Maja Šubarić
Mahmuljin
Lidija
Špegar
Blaž
Kužnik
LaureBalzan
Ouaniche
TomSharir
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Project segments
Press conference in Zagreb
May 8, 2014
Hotel Sheraton, Kneza Borne 2, Zagreb
(12 accredited journalists)
Press conference in Zagreb
May 22, 2014.
Europa cinema, Müller hall, Varšavska 3,
Zagreb (34 accredited journalists)
Round table “Looted art – The
Monuments Men”
May 9, 2014
Museum of Arts and Crafts, Trg
Maršala Tita 10, Zagreb (76 attendants)
Film program in Zagreb
May 18-24, 2014
Europa cinema, Varšavska 3;
Tuškanac cinema, Tuškanac 1, Zagreb
(8027 visitors)
Film program in Rijeka
June 9-10, 2014
Art-kino Croatia, Krešimirova 2, Rijeka
(117 visitors)
Educational morning in Zagreb
(educ. program about the Holocaust
intended for el. school pupils and
high school students)
May 19, 2014
GuestlecturerMirkoIlić,
“SymbolsofHatred”
Europa cinema, Varšavska 3
(425 visitors)
May 21, 2014
GuestlecturerTerencePike,the
UNHCRRepresentativeinCroatia,
andBrankoLustig,Presidentofthe
FestivalandtheHolocaustsurvivor
Europa cinema, Varšavska 3
(570 visitors)
International Talent Workshop
(international film workshop
intended for film school students
from all over the world)
May 17-24, 2014
HFS, Tuškanac 1, Zagreb (7 attendants)
Festival market
May 22-24, 2014
Centar Cvjetni,
Trg Petra Preradovića 6/1
(223 visitors)
Thematic exhibitions in Zagreb
May 5-25, 2014
AdolfFrankl,ArtagainstOblivion,
Klovićevi dvori Gallery,
(963 visitors)
May 18-24, 2014
Schindler’sList,photographsfromthe
set,Universalstudios
(3850 visitors)
May 14-24, 2014
StreetArtagainstOblivion
Dom HDLU, Trg žrtava fašizma 16,
artistic intervention on photographs;
Centar Cvjetni, Trg Petra Preradovića
6/1, exhibition of the works
(It is estimated that over 20,000 people
saw the exhibition over the period of 10
days, and the assessment is made on
the basis of avg. daily attendance, which
amounts to 20,000 people a day)
Literary evenings
May 22, 2014
Medijateka, Preradovićeva 5, Zagreb
(48 visitors)
May 23, 2014
Booksa, Martićeva 14 D, Zagreb
(37 visitors)
Music program
May 21, 2014
VitaMavrič&AkordQuartet
VIP Club, Trg bana Jelačića 9, Zagreb
(43 visitors)
May 23, 2014
JoyceMuniz, VIP Club,
Trg bana Jelačića 9, Zagreb
(app. 300 visitors)
May 24, 2014
DJItch,DJPhillipe, Klub,
Pavla Hatza 16, Zagreb
(102 visitors)
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Partners, sponsors and media coverage
Zagreb and Rijeka
ZAGrEB
General sponsor of the Festival
City of Zagreb
Patronage of the Adolf Frankl
exhibition
Ministry of Culture, Republic of Croatia
Golden partners
Mirko Ilić corp.
Orbico d.o.o.
Atlantic grupa d.d.
International Holocaust Remembrance
Alliance
Mercedes Benz | Star Import d.o.o.
Unex Group
Silver partners
Hrvatski audiovizualni centar
Zaklada Adris
Ministarstvo znanosti, obrazovanja i
sporta
Društvo hrvatskih filmskih redatelja
UNHCR Hrvatska
Hotel Sheraton Zagreb
Austrijski kulturni forum
Saints Hills
Overseas Express
PPD Distribucija – Aperol Spritz
Bronze partners
Europapier Adria d.o.o.
Veleposlanstvo Sjedinjenih Američkih
Država
Goethe Institut u Hrvatskoj
Miadria d.o.o.
Paprenjak d.o.o.
Rezolucija d.o.o.
Francuski Institut u Zagrebu
Press clipping d.o.o.
Jadran film d.d.
Veleposlanstvo kraljevine Nizozemske
u RH
Veleposlanstvo kraljevine Maroko u RH
Veleposlanstvo države Izrael u RH
Veleučilište VERN
AVC d.o.o.
rIJEKA
Grad Zagreb
Mirko Ilić Corp.
Hrvatski audiovizualni centar
International Holocaust Remembrance
Alliance
Art-kino Croatia
Orbico d.o.o.
Atlantic grupa d.d.
Zaklada Adris
Press clipping d.o.o.
Media partners
HRT
Jutarnji list
Otvoreni radio
KlasikTV
Radio 808
City time
Net.hr
MojTV portal
Queer.hr
Arteist.hr
Pazi snima se
Bug
Zarez
DNA
Monitor
Forum.hr
Kanal RI
Radio Rijeka
Venues
Europa cinema, Tuškanac cinema,
Centar Cvjetni, Dom HDLU, Klovićevi
dvori Gallery, Museum of Arts and
Crafts, Institut Français, Booksa, Vip
club, Klub, Art-kino Croatia
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Promo materials
ZAGrEB
Program booklet
Festival poster B1
Program poster B1
Program flyer Festival ZG
Street Art flyer
Festival market flyer
Music program flyer
Literary evenings/Round table flyer
Schindler’s List flyer
Educational mornings’ poster – Ilić
Educational mornings’ poster – Lustig
Invitations FoT
Invitations “Schindler’s List”
Invitations Adolf Frankl
Acknowledgement volunteers
Acknowledgements partners (HR/EN)
ITW plaquette
Catalogue Adolf Frankl
Poster Adolf Frankl B1
Poster Adolf Frankl 2m X 2m
Promo book ITW
Folder
Balnk notebook FoT
T-Shirts FoT
Badge FoT
Canvas bags with logo
City Lights
Ballots
Hats
5000 pcs.
50 pcs.
50 pcs.
5000 pcs.
500 pcs.
500 pcs.
1000 pcs.
500 pcs.
500 pcs.
100 pcs.
100 pcs.
800 pcs.
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500 pcs.
80 pcs.
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1000 pcs.
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500 pcs.
500 pcs.
1000 pcs.
300 pcs.
30 pcs.
(15 locations, May 01-28, 2014.)
20 pcs.
(10 locations, May 01-28, 2014.)
10000 pcs.
200 pcs.
rIJEKA
Program flyer
Poster B1
500 pcs.
20 pcs.
Billboards
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FESTIVAL OF TOLERANCE
REGIONAL EDITIONS
General
FestivalofTolerance is a culturaleducational platform that started with
its activities in 2007 in Zagreb, under
the name Jewish Film Festival, and listening to the pulse of the audience and
partners, in 2011 it has been renamed
to its current name, thereby expanding
thematic areas it covers. The mission of
the platform is to make a wide range
of high quality art works available
throughout the region, thereby conveying the message about the necessity of
tolerance and acceptance of diversity.
Through high-quality cultural and
educational program, with the support
of relevant institutions and other civil
society organizations, the intention of
the organizers of the Festival is to get
closer to the largest possible number
of visitors and make it the leading
platform in the region and beyond to
pass the experience from the past with
the help of the contemporary works
values, whose message the visitors will
recognize and spread in their surroundings. The organizer of the Festival of
Tolerance is The Jewish Film Festival
Zagreb Association.
In 2014 Festival of Tolerance held in
Zagreb but its eighth edition. Intent on
including and educating diverse target
groups and identifying community
needs on whose behalf it acts, the
Festival is divided in several program
units. Film program consists of exceptional domestic and foreign production
films of all categories that are generally
premiered in the Festival cities, and they
are often accompanied by guest stars.
Educational mornings are educational
program for students and pupils, based
on teaching about the Holocaust that
strive to develop tolerance and acceptance of differences. Other segments
of the Festival are: thematic exhibitions
(paintings, photographies, sculptures,
etc. on the subject of the Holocaust
and tolerance), music programs
(klezmer bands and DJs performances), International Talent Workshop
(theoretical and practical workshop
for young filmmakers from the whole
world who in less than ten days create
a film, starting from the script development to editing and screening at the
Festival), literary evenings, round tables
and street-art programmes.
The Festival of Tolerance Zagreb to
date screened approximately 350 films
in all categories, held 13 Educational
mornings, 7 International Talent Workshops, some 10 exhibitions, more than
20 music programs, 5 literary evenings
and 1 round table and street art program. Festival hosted renowned artists,
such as directors, Academy Award
winners VolkerSchlöndorff and Stefan
Ruzowitzky, actors RalphFiennes and
StellanSkarsgård, graphic designer,
illustrator and lecturer MirkoIlić, writer
GillesRozier, painter, sculptor and
printmaker SeijiKimoto and the band
PaulBrody’sSadawi.
Some segments of the festival,
primarily Educational mornings and
film screenings, were held also in other
locations and dates other than terms of
the festival. A total of almost 100,000
people visited the programs of the
Association.
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Dan Tana, Nataša Popović,
Mina Božović and Mirko Ilić
From the very start of the Festival
of Tolerance, the idea was that the
Association creates short editions of
the Festival in countries of the region,
and that was realized for the first time
after the 2nd Festival in Zagreb, in 2008,
bringing the program to Sarajevo and
Belgrade. After the break in the organization of similar editions of the Festival
outside the Republic of Croatia, caused
primarily by lack of financial support to
cover the high organizational costs, the
Association re-started regional editions
of the Festival in 2013 in Sarajevo, and
in 2014, thanks to the sponsors and
partners who recognized the project,
followed by the expansion and organizing the programs in Vienna, Cetinje,
Sarajevo and Belgrade. In February
2015 there will be Festival of Tolerance
organized in Ljubljana.
When organizing regional editions
of the Festival, the main objectives of
the Association are the same as for
the Zagreb festival: to present works
of art, which, in addition to its quality,
stand out with the messages they
carry; to encourage multiculturalism,
tolerance and understanding of other
cultures, educate the public, promote
acceptance of others and different
traditions; to remind of the horrors of
the Holocaust in order to learn from
that tragic episode of modern history
about the acceptance of diversity and
approaching every human being as an
individual worthy of respect; to develop
civil dialogue and non-institutional education about tolerance and acceptance
of diversity as a fundamental driving
force of a healthy society, primarily for
the young; to work on discrimination,
racism, homophobia and xenophobia
prevention and generally to prevent violation of the rights of minority groups,
aiming towards a developed society
where the majority doesn’t perceive the
minority as a threat to its own identity;
to encourage volunteering.
The program of the regional editions
of the Festival of Tolerance was compiled of the selection of the best films
from the Festival of Tolerance Zagreb
and the contents that premiered in the
region. The association aimed to present the two most important segments
of the Festival – film program and
Educational morning, in host cities, and,
where circumstances allowed, to present other activities (eg. exhibition, music
program, panel discussions, master
classes etc.)
The preparation of these editions
began in early 2014 with initial discussions with partners, and intensified after
the Festival of Tolerance Zagreb in May,
seeking new titles, negotiating screening fees, preparing films for screening
(technical processing, subtitling, inspection...) creating programs, negotiations
with partners about locations for the
programs, protocols, invitations for
opening, the technical aspects of preparation and implementation of programs,
transport of the exhibition and the like.
We had the help of five volunteers who
watched the movies and performed
office tasks, as well as the help of one
foreign student from Poland, who completed his Erasmus Programme practice
in the Association.
Entry to all programs, according to
the festival’s policy, was free.
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Organizer
Festival of Tolerance president,
Branko Lustig
Festival of Tolerance founder
and director, Nataša Popović
A non-profit Jewish Film Festival
Zagreb Association, continuously
active from its beginnings in 2008,
recognized the need to offer additional
content in culture as well as noninstitutional education for citizens.
The intention of the Association
is speaking out about the need for
understanding the different, tolerance
and love and therefore for the last
eight years, every May continuously
organizes the event Festival of Tolerance in Zagreb, and in recent years also
throughout the region (Rijeka, Podgorica, Sarajevo, Belgrade, Ljubljana,
programs in Vienna).
Led by the honorary president of
the Festival, Branko Lustig, survivor
of the Holocaust and double Oscarwinner, we speak and warn about the
horrors that took place during the
Holocaust, but also remind that today
there is still lack of interest and tolerance to end the horrors of genocide
and wars.
In addition to organizing a number
of editions of the Festival of Tolerance,
the Association implemented a range
of related projects, such as the tour of
Educational mornings and throughout
the year it cooperates with many
partners.
Branko Lustig
As one of our most prominent professionals in the world of film, Mr. Lustig
serves as the president of the Festival
of Tolerance and works continuously
on the project as a volunteer since
2008. He is one of the most famous
cultural ambassadors of the Republic
of Croatia and the region in the world.
As a producer he won two Academy
Awards (for Schindler’sList and Gladiator), two BAFTA awards and one
Emmy. In the United States he worked
closely with prominent directors such
as Steven Spielberg and Ridley Scott.
He is co-founder of the Shoah Foundation in Los Angeles along with Steven
Spielberg. In June 2009 he received an
honorary doctorate from the University of Zagreb. He is the main selector
of the film program for the Festival of
Tolerance, lecturer at the Educational
mornings and International Talent
Workshop for young filmmakers, consultant for other program segments
and most publicly exposed person of
the project.
Nataša Popović
She is the founder of the Festival of
Tolerance, and now serves as executive
director. Her initial responsibility is to
create a vision for key segments of the
Festival. Manages various departments, implements new programs, and
improves the development of existing
ones, at local and regional level. Other
duties include ensuring the realization
of the program within budget, coordination projects and communicates
collaboration with partners, sponsors
and donors. Nataša also defines the
key factors necessary for the success of
the festival program.
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Festival of Tolerance guest appearance
at the LET’S CEE Film Festival - Vienna
Urania Cinema
Artis Cinema
Although it was originally planned
to organize the Festival in Tuzla, due
to intensification of already existing
cooperation with the LET’SCEEFilm
Festivaland the belief that it would
be important to bring the programs
closer to central Europe, especially in
a country that has a highly developed
awareness of the Holocaust, but also
significant impact of a radical rightwing, the Association has decided to
organize activities in Vienna.
The programs were diverse and
well-accepted, and members of the
Association, together with the Zagreb
Mayor MilanBandić and Croatian
Ambassador to Austria, Gordan
Bakota, were invited to a reception by
the Mayor of Vienna MichaelHäupl,
who awarded Branko Lustig the statue
‘Goldener Rathausmann’, as a special
recognition by the City of Vienna, that
was, among others, received by Elton
John, JoanBaez, MontserratCaballé,
BillyJoel and GregoryPeck.
Film programme
After five official screenings in
Croatia, LET’S CEE Film Festival organized the first two screenings of the
film ‘Games’, produced by the Festival
of Tolerance within its International
Talent Workshop. With this free
workshop Association brings together
promising young filmmakers from all
over the world, who in Zagreb, during
the Festival of Tolerance, with the
guidance of renowned mentors, create
one film out of the selection of screen-
plays all the way to the editing and
presentation. The film ‘Games’, created
at the workshop in 2014, proved to be
much sought after, since only a couple
of months after its productions it was
arranged to show it at the Warsaw
Jewish Film Festival (Poland), Skomrahi
(Macedonia) and San Diego Jewish
Film Festival (USA).
Branko Lustig, as president of the
Festival of Tolerance, was also invited
to recommend three European cinema
titles on the topic of the Second
World War as part of the ‘Anti-war
retrospective’. Thus, the Festival
presented ‘The Tin Drum’ by Volker
Schlöndorff, ‘Sunshine’ by Istvan
Szabo and ‘Don’t look back, my son’
by BrankoBauer. For this last title the
Association arranged the screening
rights, and prepared it for projection.
Immediately after the presentation,
Branko Lustig addressed the audience
and led a discussion on the subject of
the Yugoslav production, war filmography and his career.
Two screening of ‘Games’ and a
‘Don’t look back, my son’ were seen by
140 visitors.
Educational morning
Taking into account the strengthening of extremist ideology and lack
of specific non-institutional platform
for learning about the Holocaust and
the injustices of the Nazi regime, the
organizer of the Festival, establishing
this program back in 2009, aimed to
introduce as many people on these
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Austrian actress Lena Reichmuth
topics, multidisciplinary and
through multimedia. It is a program
which aims to educate young people
about the horrors of the Holocaust in
order to learn more from that tragic
episode of world history about the
acceptance of diversity and embracing
every human being as an individual
worthy of respect.
Educational morning was held on
October the 6th in cinema Artis, for
the first time in a foreign language.
About 300 students, aged 12-16 years,
first saw the film ‘Run, Boy, run’, an
adaptation of the Uri Orlev’s bestseller,
based on a true story about a nine
year old Jurek who in 1942 escaped
from the Warsaw ghetto. After the
film there was a lecture by Branko
Lustig about his experiences in the
notorious concentration camps. The
students showed great knowledge on
the subject of World War II and the
Holocaust, and were very interested in
participating in the discussion with the
lecturer during the program, and even
more after the lecture. Branko Lustig
has established an excellent rapport
with young people since the lecture
was given in their language, and even
in Vienna, the city where many nationalities and religions live peacefully, he
did not forget to emphasize the importance of harmonious coexistence
and love for your neighbours.
Panel discussion
At the cinema Urania on October
the 5th there was a panel discussion
organized on the topic ‘About the
right approach to sustainable remembrance and commemoration’. Moderator of the discussion was known
Austrian journalist and chief editor of
the newspaper Der Standard, AlexandraFöderl-Schmid, and panellists were
Branko Lustig and OliverRathkolb,
Austrian historian and professor of
contemporary history at the University of Vienna. The connecting link
was Shoah Foundation, founded in
1994 with the aim of collecting and
sharing video testimonies of Holocaust
survivors and other witnesses of the
time, which today has an archive of
more than 50,000 entries. One of the
initiators of this foundation, with Steven Spielberg, was Branko Lustig, while
Oliver Rathkolb is at the head of the
Austrian branch of the project, based
at the University of Vienna. Speakers amounted ways and methods of
remembrance conservation of the Holocaust and other similar tragedies of
modern history, with special emphasis
on the role of the Shoah Foundation,
but also the Festival of Tolerance. 157
visitors participated in the discussion.
Master class
In the intimate atmosphere of the
small hall of Artis cinema, on 6th of
October, Branko Lustig gave a lecture
on film production. In front of 64 film
aficionados, double Oscar winner told
his life journey – from a little boy taken
to the concentration camp because
of his Jewish origin to the famous Hollywood producer. The audience heard
a lot of advice on the film industry,
many anecdotes from the shootings,
Lustig spoke about the favourite coworkers and professional moments
and comprehensively answered their
many questions.
Branko Lustig’s Master Class in Vienna
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Oliver Rathkolb, historian and
contemporary history professor
at the University of Vienna
Integration cinema
On October the 6th was presentation of the Integration cinema and associated official program, organized by
LET’S CEE Film Festival in cooperation
with the Austrian Integration Fund
and TOGETHER:AUSTRIA initiative.
The goal of this program, designed
for young people of all nationalities,
is to promote intercultural dialogue
and to enjoy the richness of diversity.
Special guests and speakers were Austria’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and
Integration Sebastian Kurz and Branko
Lustig, who in front of 200 guests and
visitors praised the activities to be
carried out in Austria in the field of
integration and acceptance of diversity.
About partner
LET’S CEE Film Festival, held once a
year in Vienna since 2012, is focused on
the screening of films of high artistic
productions from Central and Eastern
Europe as well as organizing various
lectures and discussions. The festival
aims to create an open, pluralistic and
democratic society freed of prejudice
and based on the principle of the rule
of law and the common European
identity, while advocating values such
as tolerance, solidarity, equal opportunities and protection of human
dignity and human rights. Cooperation
between LET’S CEE Film Festival and
the JFF Zagreb began in 2013 when the
Vienna Festival awarded Branko Lustig
‘Star of Urania’, a lifetime achievement
award.
LET’S CEE Film Festival, in cooperation with the Association, designed,
developed, promoted and produced
all of the Festival of Tolerance guest
programs. They suggested moderator
and interviewer for the panel discussion, as well as the idea of Branko
Lustig retrospective, designed Integration cinema, in collaboration with
partner provided screening at the
Educational morning (and sent invitations to schools), as well as travel and
accommodation for members of the
Association.
other partners
Cineplexx
Mayor of Vienna, Michael Häupl,
awarded Branko Lustig with
‘Goldener Rathausmann’ award
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Media coverage
Reports on hosting the Festival
of Tolerance on LET’S Film Festival
were published at least 55 times, in
Austrian, Croatian, American, Polish and Montenegrin printed and
electronic media. The major focus was
on the announcement of the program
and the reception with the mayor of
Vienna. Assistance in placing the news
about the program was provided by
the Croatian Embassy in the Republic
of Austria. Programs have been announced and followed up on the web
and Facebook pages of the Festival of
Tolerance.
Promotional materials
Shirts
10 pcs.
Badges
50 pcs.
Bags
20 pcs.
Festival of Tolerance flyer (universal, in English)
Festival o Tolerance roll-up banner
500 pcs.
2 pcs.
+ promotion of the Festival on LET’S CEE Film Festival promo materials
Magdalena Zelasko, LET’S CEE
Film Festival director
Sebastian Kurz, Austrian Minister of foreign
affairs, Nataša Popović and Branko Lustig
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1. Festival of Tolerance Cetinje
(November 1-3, 2014)
The idea of organizing Festival of
Tolerance in Montenegro was conceived in 2013 during the visit of the
President of the Festival Branko Lustig
and Festival Director Nataša Popović
to Budva, Podgorica and Cetinje, and
after intensifying contacts with the
MinistryofCultureofMontenegro,
in early 2014, the cooperation in this
project was finalized. Selected location
for the Festival was Cetinje, the seat of
the Ministry of Culture, the old capital
and one of the main cultural centres
in the country. This way Montenegro
became the fifth state where the program of the Festival of Tolerance was
organized and held.
The first Festival of Tolerance Cetinje was made of a film program, which
was held entirely at the Royal Theatre
‘Zetski dom’, the oldest theatrical
institution in Montenegro, and Education morning, held in the Ministry of
Culture.
Press conference
The conference which announced
the Festival took place on October 31
in the multimedia hall of the Ministry
of Culture. Media were addressed by
Dragica Milić, Assistant Minister of
Culture, Nataša Popović and Branko
Lustig. Ms. Milić expressed satisfaction
that after Rijeka, Belgrade, Sarajevo and
Vienna Festival presents itself in Cetinje, taking into account the cultural and
historical importance and fundamental human values that Cetinje also
possesses. For the first time abroad,
there was the screening of the official
promotional film of the Festival, titled
‘Why Festival of Tolerance?’ It is a 26
minutes long explanation on where
the need for this type of event arose.
Film programme
Festival of Tolerance premiered 11
films to the audiences of Montenegro, four of them feature films, three
documentaries and four short films.
During the program selection, all
forms were included (two animated
films were screened as well), domestic and international productions
(two Croatian production films were
shown – ‘Games’ and ‘Some things
shouldn’t be hidden’ and ‘What we do’,
Slovenian film by Croatian director),
award-winning films (presented were
films ‘Saving face’ and ‘The Lady in
number 6’, winners of 2012 and 2014
Academy Award for short film). It was
aimed to achieve the combination of
best films from previous editions of
the Festival of Tolerance in Zagreb and
new movies not yet presented by the
Association.
Thus, the program featured two
films that the Zagreb audience will
see only in 2015: ‘Colette’, one of the
most authentic representations of
Auschwitz, based upon the celebrated
novel by Arnost Lustig, himself a
prisoner in concentration camps, and
‘Magic Men’, one of the most popular
films of the Israeli production, interesting because in the role of a Holocaust
survivor we see an Arab actor Makram
Khoury, who won the Israeli Academy
award for the role. Association has
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regional distribution rights for the
film ‘Magic Men’, and soon starts with
its placement in cinemas across the
region.
The festival opened with ‘Sarah’s
Key’, a film that won the Audience
Award for best feature film at the Festival of Tolerance Zagreb in 2012, and it
was accepted just as well in Cetinje.
All visitors of the film program and
Educational mornings in all editions
of the Festival of Tolerance voted to
evaluate the quality of the program
with marks from 1 to 5.
At the screening in the Royal
Theatre, there was a total of 306 visitors, who awarded all projections with
high grades, and the best evaluated
were ‘Saving Face’ with flawless 5.0 and
‘Sarah’s Key’ with just a little lower 4.92.
Educational morning
Educational morning for the
young people of Cetinje was held on
November the 3rd at the multimedia hall of the Ministry of Culture.
The program was attended by 150
students from two elementary schools
and three high schools. The program
consisted of screening of the feature
film ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’,
adaptation of the novel of the same
name, about a boy Bruno, the son of
the concentration camp commander,
whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the wire
has unexpected consequences. The
film was followed by lecture by Branko
Lustig. Building on film, Lustig talked to
the youth about the inhumane living
conditions for the prisoners, singling
out some episodes that he remembers.
He recommended other exceptional
films that deal with this topic and the
lecture ended with a message that
the key to a happy coexistence and
progress in today’s society is acceptance of diversity. Students showed
great interest for the hour long lecture,
and they were enthusiastic about the
movie which scored high 4.89.
About partner
Ministry of Culture as the pub
Royal Theatre ‘Zetski dom’
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lic body of the Government of the
Republic of Montenegro performs
administrative functions related to
the development and improvement
of cultural and artistic creativity;
ensuring the basis for cultural activities; monitoring research in the field
of culture; literature and translation,
music and theatre production; art and
design; film making and creativity in
the areas of other audio-visual media;
museum activities; protection of
cultural property and cultural heritage,
editing and maintenance of monuments, memorials and administrative
control of the areas the Ministry of
Culture was established for. The first
cooperation between the Association
and Ministry of Culture of Montenegro
took place in 2013 when Branko Lustig
held lecture in Cetinje on the topic
Zagreb – Hollywood. Cooperation has
been expanded with the organization
of the Festival of Tolerance.
The Ministry of Culture provided
space, logistical and technical support
to implement the program, arrival,
departure and internal transfers for the
members of the Association, accommodation, posters and flyers printing,
photo services, recording, press-clipping and cocktail reception and sent
invitations to the schools for participation in the Educational morning, as
well as for the opening ceremony of
the Festival.
Other partners
Royal Theatre ‘Zetski dom’
Media coverage
Festival of Tolerance Cetinje was
covered by the Montenegrin media
through three television announcements, 10 newspapers releases and
announcements on several internet
portals. Radio-Television of Montenegro and Pobjeda had four announcements, while three were recorded in
Dan and Dnevne novine newspapers.
All programs were regularly promoted
on the website of the Ministry of Culture of Montenegro and the Festival of
Tolerance.
Promotional materials
Festival of Tolerance Cetinje posters (70x80 cm)
10 pcs.
Festival of Tolerance Cetinje posters (33x48 cm)
15 pcs.
Festival of Tolerance Cetinje program flyer
500 pcs.
Ballot
1000 pcs.
Shirts
10 pcs.
Badges
50 pcs.
Bags
20 pcs.
Festival of Tolerance flyers (universal, in English)
100 pcs.
Festival of Tolerance roll-up banner
2 pcs.
Festival of Tolerance bumper animation
1 pcs.
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3. Festival of Tolerance Sarajevo
(November 7-8, 2014)
Festival of Tolerance is almost at
home in Sarajevo since it was organized there for the third time. The
Association cooperated in this project
with the already proven and wellestablished local partners, LaBenevolencija and Mrežazaizgradnjumira,
and the programs were in coordination with Bejahad, a manifestation that
promotes Jewish culture. The festival
consisted of a film program and Educational morning, it was traditionally
held in the Meeting Point Cinema. The
highlight of Sarajevo was the number
of volunteers who participated in the
Festival – just like the last year, there
were more than twenty.
Capture from the film
‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’
Press conference
The Festival was announced at
a press conference held at Meeting
Point Cinema on November 6th. On
behalf of the organizers, a number of
media representatives were addressed
by Branko Lustig and Nataša Popović,
as well as by JakobFinci, president of
La Benevolencija. With the announcement of the program, it was pointed
out that the next years’s Festival will
be devoted to the 20th anniversary of
the Srebrenica massacre. Branko Lustig
particularly stressed that the young
people should hear about fascism in
order to learn lessons from it so that
the atrocities like Srebrenica, Jasenovac
and similar camps do not happen
again.
Film programme
On the third Festival of Tolerance
Sarajevo a total of eight films were
presented, three of them feature films,
three documentaries and two short
films. As in Cetinje, the Festival was
opened with ‘Sarah’s Key’, that Sarajevo
audience liked as much as the audience in Sarajevo, and rated it the best
in the category of feature films.
Especially noteworthy was the
world premiere of the documentary
‘Flory’s Flame’ on the life and music
of the famous 90-year-old Sephardic
composer and artist Flory Jagoda
whose story is closely linked to our
region.
Total of 580 visitors saw the film
program, not counting the movie included in Educational morning lecture,
and the best rated were documentaries ‘The Lady in number 6’ (4.83) and
‘Precious Life’ (4.69) and the above
mentioned film ‘Sarah’s Key’ (4.68).
Educational morning
Educational morning was held on
November 7th in the Meeting Point
Cinema in front of 164 junior high and
high school students. The program,
as well as in Cetinje, consisted of a
screening of ‘The Boy in the Striped
Pyjamas’ and lectures Branko Lustig.
The film was very well rated (4.46), and
students closely followed the lecture
where Lustig spoke about his experiences during the Holocaust, but also
about casualties caused by hatred in
this region, both during World War II,
and 1990’s. In conclusion he stressed
out that such events can be prevented
only by love and respect for all people.
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This message is all the more
valuable because the students who
attended the lecture represented three
most common ethnic groups in the
country. GoranBubalo from Mreža za
izgradnju mira spoke after Mr. Lustig,
recalling that only two decades ago
there were camps like the ones of the
Holocaust, pointing out that the only
way for true progress and happy coexistence is to respect diversity and work
together on a better future.
Immediately after the Educational
morning, Branko Lustig headed to the
Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, where the students of the
‘Obala’ grammar school listened to the
similar lecture as part of the ‘Double
Burden’ project. This is a project
sponsored by the Goethe-Institut, and
Festival of Tolerance participates as a
partner along with cultural and educational institutions from five European
countries. The ‘Double Burden’ project
started with a symposium in GoetheInstitute in April, and continued with
a professional visit to the Buchenwald
memorial site, and progressed within
countries. The project brings together
scientists, experts from the memorial sites, documentation centres and
museums, artists, educators, teachers, and since this fall – the students.
The aim of the project is to bring the
historical facts closer to the students
through extracurricular activities and
inspire them, with the help of artists
and mentors, to create artistic projects
related to the themes of the Holocaust
and Nazism.
Presenting the Festival within
Bejahad
From November 7-9, 2014 event
‘Bejahad – Jewish culture in Europe –
Zagreb’ was held in Sarajevo. Bejahad
was founded in 1999 with the primary
objective of strengthening the Jewish
identity of the remaining Jews from
the former Yugoslavia and to motivate
and mobilize community members
to work in the field of art and culture,
and this year’s program in Sarajevo,
organized by the Jewish Community
Bet Israel in Zagreb and the Jewish
community Sarajevo, consisted of lectures, presentations, magazines, photo
exhibitions and concerts. During the
event, on November 8, at the premises
of the Jewish Community of Sarajevo,
Festival of Tolerance presented its
programs, by showing a promotional
film titled ‘Why Festival of Tolerance’.
Branko Lustig and Nataša Popović
talked in front of fifty people about
past successes, but also challenges in
the culture and society in general. In
the following discussion participants
Branko Lustig, lecture at
Educational morning, Sarajevo
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went through a wide range of topics, from the need for the Holocaust
victims’ memorial in Zagreb, through
the celebration of the 20th anniversary
of the Srebrenica genocide and the
making of the film about Jasenovac to
the presence and prevalence of hate
speech in Croatia.
About partners
La Benevolencija is a cultural-educational and humanitarian organization
founded back in 1892 and is the oldest
of its kind in Bosnia and Herzegovina,
still existing and operating. When it
was founded, the main objectives of
the organization were scholarships for
young talented Jewish students and
the fostering of cultural traditions,
to the period until the beginning of
World War II, when it has developed
into an organization under whose
auspices were almost all Jewish cultural
and humanitarian activities in Bosnia
and Herzegovina. La Benevolencija
was partner of the Festival on all three
previous editions of the Festival in
Sarajevo and is generally its most stable
foreign partner.
La Benevolencija has enabled the
completion of the film program and
Educational morning in the Meeting
Point Cinema, as well as the presentation of the Festival of Tolerance on the
premises of the Jewish Community of
Sarajevo, and they sent the invitations to guests for the opening of the
Festival and helped in the logistics and
promotion.
Mreža za izgradnju mira (Network
for Building Peace) was established
in February 2010, and is directed to
the reconstruction of the quality of
social and economic life in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, to continuously increase
the ability of the whole society to
treat the differences and conflicts in
a constructive and non-violent way,
thereby creating a framework for joint,
coordinated action of many non-governmental organizations, local adminis-
tration, businesses, the media and state
institutions. The initiatives are focused
specifically on the areas of education,
safety, protection and promotion of
human and minority rights, improving
coexistence in Bosnia and Herzegovina,
the culture of public dialogue and the
like. The Network was a partner of the
Association for the organization of
the Festival of Tolerance in Sarajevo in
2013 and 2014.
Mreža za izgradnju mira has helped
the organization of the Festival by finding volunteers and providing food and
drinks for them, sending invitations
to schools for Educational morning
program, sending invitations to the
guests for the opening of the Festival,
seeking media partners, distribution of
promotional materials and promotion
of the Festival.
Other partners
Bejahad, Meeting Point Cinema,
Jewish Community Sarajevo, BHRT,
Oslobođenje, Radio Sarajevo
Media coverage
Festival of Tolerance Sarajevo
had three media sponsors, BHRT,
Oslobođenje and Radio Sarajevo, and
they had the most press releases. In
addition to the aforementioned media,
as well as on the Festival of Tolerance
website, programs are announced on
the websites of our partners, websites
of the venues where the program was
carried out, websites of the schools
that attended the Educational morning (with a particularly detailed article
on the pages of the Catholic School
Centre ‘St. Joseph’, Sarajevo), as well
as other media (such as dnevni-list.
ba, vijesti.ba, seebiz.eu, news-blic.com,
fbl.ba, ban.ba, stranac.net ...). Overall,
more than 20 releases were registered,
mostly on the November 6th and 7th,
after the press conference (attended
by as many as seven crews), and after
Educational morning.
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Promotional materials
Festival of Tolerance Sarajevo posters (B1)
Festival of Tolerance Sarajevo program flyer
10 pcs.
500 pcs.
Ballot
1200 pcs.
Shirts
25 pcs.
Badges
50 pcs.
Bags
20 pcs.
Festival of Tolerance flyer (universal, in English)
100 pcs.
Festival of Tolerance roll-up banner
2 pcs.
Festival of Tolerance bumper animation
1 pcs.
+ promotion of the Festival on Meeting Point Cinema
promo materials
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2. Festival of Tolerance Belgrade
(November 13-15, 2014)
After six years of absence, since
2008 when it was held under the name
of Jewish Film Festival, the Festival was
again organized in the capital of the
Republic of Serbia. This was also the
Festival with the most comprehensive and various program than all the
regional editions. In the preparation
and implementation of programs, the
Association cooperated with Heartefact Fund, Mirko Ilić Corp. and AIC
Foundation Inc. One of the novelties
on the program, in cooperation with
Heartefact Fund, the Festival encouraged visitors to write via Twitter (#TolerancijaJe) what tolerance means to
them, which further strengthened the
promotion through social networks.
Film programme
The Festival of Tolerance Belgrade
presented a total of 12 films – 4 feature
films, 4 documentaries and 4 short
films. President of the Board of Heartefact Fund, award-winning playwright
BiljanaSrbljanović, and the director
of the Festival of Tolerance Nataša
Popović gave short welcoming speech
in front of the 220 guests, followed by
the film ‘Magic Men’, currently one of
the most popular films of the Israeli
production. Branko Lustig, President of
the Festival, was unable to attend the
Belgrade edition, but he greeted the
audience with a video message. The
opening ceremony was attended by
numerous celebrities and representatives of the diplomatic community in
Serbia, such as the Ambassador of the
State of Israel, H. E. YossefLevy, and
representatives of the US Embassy.
Film program on the first day,
November 13th, was held in Dom
omladineBeograda, and the program
on 14th and 15th of November was
held in the UKParobrod.
November 14th staged the premiere of the film ‘Free Fall’ at the Festival of Tolerance. It is an award-winning
German feature film presenting the
LGBT problematic that will premiere at
the 9th Festival of Tolerance in Zagreb,
in 2015 for Croatian audience.
The screening of the film ‘Some
things shouldn’t be hidden’ was attended by ElaNovaković and Žarko
Erenfrajnd, granddaughter and son of
the film protagonist BožidarErenfrajnd. The idea for this movie was
conceived back in 2008 at the first
International Talent Workshop, one of
the programs of Festival of Tolerance,
and it describes the process of awarding Dr. Joza Jagodić the title of ‘Righteous among the Nations’, who during
World War II saved Božidar Erenfrajnd,
and many others, from certain death.
After the screening our guests addressed the audience and in a friendly
conversation shared with them how
familiar they were with their father/
grandfather’s past before filming, and
what was the nomination procedure
for this recognition like.
The overall number of visitors to
the film program (not including the
movie screened for the Educational
morning) was 560. This figure was
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partly determined by the capacity
of the hall at the UK Parobrod, which
consists of 40 seats. The audience
enthusiastically responded to the
program, since there are only two films
that received rating lower than 4.3, and
‘Flory’s Flame’ (with clean 5.0), shown
here only after the world premiere
in Sarajevo, was leader on the scale.
Academy Award winners for short film
category ‘Saving Face’ won 4.96 and
‘The Lady in Number 6’ won 4.94.
Aleksandar Ajzinberg, Holocaust survivor and
lecturer at the Educational morning, Belgrade
Educational morning
After Croatia, Austria, Bosnia and
Herzegovina and Montenegro, Republic of Serbia is the fifth country that
held the Educational morning at the
Dom omladine Beograda on November 13th. This was also the most visited
program of the entire regional edition
of the Festival of Tolerance since nearly
500 students from junior high and high
schools participated in the lecture and
discussion afterwards. For the first time
the lecture was not held by Branko
Lustig, who because of extremely ac-
tive schedule during the entire festival
tour and frail health could not travel to
Belgrade. Therefore, the program consisted of a screening of the film ‘Run,
Boy, run’, already mentioned adaptation of Uri Orlev bestseller based on a
true story about a nine-year old Jurek
who in 1942 escaped from the Warsaw
ghetto, and lecture by Aleksandar
Ajzinberg, Belgrade architect who had
to hide through most of the Second
World War because of his Jewish
origin. Ajzinberg’s story substantially
resembles the film that preceded his
lecture, and students listened to his
lecture with great enthusiasm. Mr.
Ajzinberg used pictures from his youth
– the removal of his father, arrest and
prison escape with his mother and
three years of hiding in the mountains
of Homolja, all the way to the publication of the book ‘Letters to Matvej’.
This book won the annual award of
the Alliance of Jewish Communities
in Serbia in 2006, and his five-hour
testimony is stored in the archives of
the USC Shoah Foundation.
Aleksandar Ajzinberg lecture
at the Dom omladine Beograda
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Mirko Ilić, Educational morning
Festival of Tolerance Belgrade
Program Educational morning received a recommendation of the City
of Belgrade Department for Education
and Child Care.
A day later, on November 14th,
at the same location, the second
Education morning was held. The lecturer was Mirko Ilić, famous illustrator,
graphic designer and lecturer, who is
also the creator of visuals for the Festival. Mirko Ilic in his illustrious career
was creative director of the international edition of Time magazine and
the New York Times Op-Ed magazine.
Today he has his own award-winning
multidisciplinary studio specializing in graphic design, he teaches
at the School of Visual Arts, and he
published several books. His lecture
‘Symbols of hatred’, widely recognized
in the region, organized twice within
Educational mornings in Zagreb,
deals with local and regional problem
of public suppression or negligence
on the perception of symbols and
graphic neo-Nazi groups hate speech
(skinheads, neo-Nazi and extreme fan
groups ...). Those groups are getting
stronger and more violent in the
region. By showing slides of fans, their
tattoos, choreography, websites and
banners, Ilić pointed out the context
of the symbols we often see, but are
not aware of their origin and mean-
ing. As usual, the lecture triggered a
one-hour discussion with about 250
young people, mostly students, who
questioned the lecturer about the
possibilities of building a better society,
they compared the situation in the region with that of the United States, the
meaning of symbols in fashion and the
military, the possibilities of law regulations and punishing the use of symbols
of hatred and the like. Mirko Ilić
pointed out that young people have
the power to start the change, but it is
necessary to take action, starting with
the understanding of the importance
of participating in elections. The first
tangible action started immediately
after the program, cleaning the antiSemitic symbols in public premises of
Dom omladine Beograda. The lecture
was attended by persons from the Serbian political and cultural life such as
ČedomirJovanović, politician, Dejan
Ristić, State Secretary in the Ministry
of Culture, BiljanaCincarević, painter,
SlavimirStojanović, designer, Boban
Stojanović, activist, and members of
the Department for the organization,
prevention and police of the Police
from the Ministry of Interior, who later
sent a letter of support to the organizers, where they stated that the lecture
provided information that will help
them in their future work.
Čedomir Jovanović, politician,
attending the lecture by Mirko Ilić
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Anti-Masonic posters exhibition
at UK Parobrod, Belgrade
Exhibitions
Festival of Tolerance visitors could
see two exhibitions. The exhibition
‘Anti-Masonic posters’ was set at the
UK Parobrod on 14th and 15th of
November. It is about the posters that
were part of the ‘Grand Anti-Masonic
Exhibition’ financed by Germans
after the Nazi occupation in 1941 in
Belgrade. They aimed at deepening the
already flaming hatred toward Jews.
Posters carried the message that Jews
are ancient enemies of the Serbian
people and that Serbs should not
wait for the Germans to begin their
extermination. Judaism, portrayed in
a stereotypical, orthodox way, posed
as a source of world evil. This way
Jews were presented as both capitalists and communists, as the deceptive
Zionist power that governs all aspects
of the European and global economy.
The exhibition ‘Anti-Masonic posters’ consists of 17 original posters and
three replicas, made from photographs
of the original posters from 1941. For
the first time after The exhibition was
shown for the first time after more
than 7 decades, in Zagreb in 2013 at
the Festival of Tolerance, and then and
in Mali salon in Rijeka and in Sarajevo
in the Memorial gallery 11/07/95
dedicated to Srebrenica, as well as in
Tuzla. The entire setup is owned by
Mirko Ilić, who, along with executive
producer of Parobrod, Zlatko Crnogorac, opened the Belgrade exhibition.
Due to the inability of partners from
Belgrade to ensure adequate space for
a longer duration of the exhibition,
despite the initial plan, and increased
security risks due to the appearance
of a group of people whose intention
was to disrupt its smooth presentation, the exhibition lasted only for two
days. In compliance with the owner of
the exhibition and partner we agreed
that it was necessary to present it to
the Belgrade audience, even for such a
short time. Posters were seen by a total
of 180 visitors.
The second exhibition was ‘Ništa
ni o čemu’ (Nothing about anything).
The author is Srđan Ćešić, and the exhibition was set up on 15th until 22nd
of November in O3ONE gallery. ‘Ništa
ni o čemu’ is an exhibition of illustrations, photo editing, texts and videos
produced as part of the activities on
social networks, the only medium in
Serbia where independent criticism
at the local political and wider social
reality can be achieved. With his work
the author opposes political back
alleys that Serbia moved through, he
advocated reconciliation, tolerance
and distancing from the values that
turned this country and its close surroundings into a region of constant
crisis, synonymous with instability and
tension. Srđan Ćešić was born in 1969.
He completed his studies of visual
communication at the International
College of Arts and Sciences in Milan.
He wrote and directed satirical show
‘Nikad izvini’, ‘Iz nepoznatih razloga’
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and ‘UPS!’. He published political illustrations in magazines Intervju, Borba
and NIN. As an art director, designer
and director, he worked on a range of
marketing, political and socially engaged campaigns. The exhibition was
visited by a total of 600 people.
Music programme
As final segment of the Festival,
organized on November 15th, there
was musical program in the club Das
Boot. Nemanja Kostić, the representative of the progressive sound among
the young Serbian generation and
known producer. His music can be
defined as progressive house with
elements of trance, minimalism and
ambient music. On several occasions
he topped the Top 10 list of must-have
albums, his works are part of a number
of sets of prominent DJs, and he has
received the support of many famous
colleagues such as Paul Van Dyke,
Paul Oakenfold, Markus Schulz, John
Digweed, Nick Warren and others.
Around 130 visitors enjoyed Nemanja’s
set and had the opportunity to relax,
to exchange impressions, talk to the
organizers, as well as get acquainted
with the lecturers and guests of the
Festival.
Srđan Ćešić, author of the
exhibition Ništa ni o čemu
in O3ONE gallery, Belgrade
Twitter competition
The interactive contest for the best
tweet with the hashtag # TolerancijaJe (#ToleranceIs) on a Twitter social
network, was also part of the Festival.
Users of the network published more
than 300 tweets on topic of tolerance
in a period from mid-October to midNovember.
Some of the most interesting ones
were:
@kazi_tibi: #tolerancijaje kad znaš
da nisi savršen, pa ne tražiš to ni od
drugih. (Tolerance is when you know
you’re not perfect and you don’t ask
others to be either.)
@rstkpet: #TolerancijaJe popravni
ispit za čovječanstvo. (Tolerance is a
makeup exam for humanity.)
@AlkibijadDusan: #TolerancijaJe
kad konačno prihvatiš da se neke stvari
dešavaju i neki ljudi žive paralelno s
tvojim željama, nadanjima i uvjerenjima. (Tolerance is when you finally
accept that some things happen and
some people live parallel to your
wishes, hopes and beliefs.)
The winner of the contest was
@sloba_milosevic with the message:
Gledaš ih,
Krišom
Ljube se
Srećni su
I ne smeta im što ih gledaš
Tolerišu
A posle odlaze
Jedan u grad, a drugi
Na trening
(poem about gay love)
About partners
Heartefact Fund is a regional organization that promotes, supports and
connects creative and progres
Exhibition
Anti-Masonic posters
UK Parobrod, Belgrade
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Exhibit from the Ništa ni o čemu
exhibition by Srđan Ćešić
O3ONE gallery, Belgrade
sive forces that contribute to
democratization and Europeanization
of the Balkans. The Fund is committed to building open and free societies
through creative exchange and pointing to important social issues such
as freedom of expression, sustainable
regional cooperation, and strengthening of critical consciousness and responsibility. The Fund is also dedicated
to the construction of new regional
relations that contribute to overcoming the consequences of wars in the
former Yugoslavia. It encourages, supports and promotes the participation
of marginalized social groups in public
life and improvement of their position.
The Fund promotes and enhances
philanthropic practices. Festival of Tolerance Belgrade is the first joint project
of the Association and the Fund.
As a partner organization, Heartefact helped in the production of the
festival, the organization and logistics
and was in charge of cooperation with
the media, media coordination and
promotion of the Festival. To this end
Heartefact has provided the necessary human resources, founded the
program committee for the Belgrade
Festival and organized a group of
interns and volunteers who worked on
the production of the event. The Fund
has proposed Twitter contest, ‘Ništa
ni o čemu’ exhibition and musical
program.
AIC Foundation Inc. was founded
in 2008 with the aim of funding those
members of society who are most in
need. The foundation has been helping
in the organization of the Festival of
Tolerance for the last three years help,
and in Belgrade edition they covered
all the expenses associated with the
‘Anti-Masonic posters’ exhibition.
Other partners
Dom omladine Beograd, UK Parobrod, Grad Beograd, Gradska opština
Stari grad, Erste banka, Marsh Creative
Production, Publikum, O3ONE, Hotel
Excelsior Beograd, B92, AgitPop, Naxi
radio
Media coverage
Festival of Tolerance had over 60
releases in print and electronic media.
Media sponsors of the Festival were:
B92 (radio, television, web portal), Naxi
(radio and portal) and Agitpop (radio
show and web portal), where all the
Festival programs were announced.
Ten days before the start and during the Festival, radio B92 broadcast
the jingle announcing the Festival in
Belgrade.
Total announcements:
•
Webportals:40
(Tanjug.rs, Medias.rs, Mondo.rs,
Seecult.org (x2), Telegraf.rs, B92.net
(x3), Elle.rs, Lovesensa.rs, Pressonline.rs,
Radio Laguna.rs, Blic.rs (x3), Dnevnik.
rs, e-novine.com, Studiob.rs, Tanjug.rs
(x2), Urbanbug.rs, 24sata.rs, Slobodnaevropa.org, Citymagazine.rs, Artie.
rs, Naxi.rs, Zajavnost.info, Agitpop.me
(x2), palo.rs, story.rs, Civilion.rs, Kuca
dobrih vesti.rs, Krstarica.rs, Glas Srbije.
rs, Nadlanu.rs, Tvbest.rs, Atastars.rs…);
•
Printedmedia:8
(Politika (x4), Informer, Blic, Danas,
Nedeljnik);
•
Radio:7
(B92 (2x), Naxi radio, Radio Laguna,
Radio Legend, RTS, Studio B);
Heartefact Fund team at the
Ništa ni o čemu exhibition
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•
TV:6
(B92, Studio B, N1, Prva,
Kopernikus, RTS).
For the purposes of outreach and
coordination, social networks were
largely used. All events were advertised
on Facebook and Twitter, and users of
these social networks were informed
and invited to the Festival events in
real time.
During the Festival of Tolerance
more than 300 tweets were published
on www.twitter.com/tolerancijaje.
On the social network Facebook
two events were created, one for the
entire Festival of Tolerance and one for
the lecture by Mirko Ilić on symbols of
hatred. Attendance for the events was
confirmed by 881 people, 514 for the
Festival of Tolerance, and 367 for the
lecture by Mirko Ilić.
Facebook Reach for the Festival
of Tolerance is approximately 83,000,
and there were 2000 hits and 1000
comments on news about this event.
Reach for the Symbols of hatred
lecture was 9000, and there have been
1500 views and 500 comments to the
posts about this event.
All the events are announced and
followed primarily on the official
website for the Festival of Tolerance
Belgrade (http://beograd.festivaloftolerance.com/).
Promotional materials
Festival of Tolerance Beograd programme booklet (16 p.)
2000 pcs.
Festival of Tolerance Beograd posters (B2)
20 pcs.
‘Anti-Masonic posters’ exhibition announcement posters
(B2)
50 pcs.
E-invitations (3 types)
Shirts
10 pcs.
Badges
50 pcs.
Bags
20 pcs.
Ballot
Festival of Tolerance flyer (universal, in English)
1200 pcs.
100 pcs.
Festival of Tolerance roll-up banner
2 pcs.
Festival of Tolerance bumper animation
1 pcs.
State of Israel ambassador in Republic of Serbia
H. E. Yossef Levy at the official opening of the
Festival of Tolerance in Belgrade
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Festival of Tolerance regional editions
guests and participants
Guests
H. E. Yossef Levy, ambassador of the
State of Israel in Republic of Serbia;
Jasmin Imamović, Tuzla county prefect;
Slavko Goldstein, writer and publisher;
Gordan Bakota, ambassador of the
Republic of Croatia in the Republic of Austria; dr. sc. Zdenka Weber,
minister councillor at the Embassy of
Republic of Croatia in Vienna, Thomas
Frankl, owner of the ART FORUM am
Judenplatz Gallery; Čedomir Jovanović,
politician; Dejan Ristić, state secretary at the Ministry of culture; Biljana
Cincarević, painter; Slavimir Stojanović,
designer; Boban Stojanović, activist;
Anđelika Simić, theatre actress; Dan
Tana, actor and producer; Aleksandar
Srećković, theatre and movie actor;
Srđan Obrenović, theatre, radio and
television producer; Mirta Stojković,
costume designer.
Programme participants
Branko Lustig, president of the Festival of Tolerance, Mirko Ilić, illustrator
and designer, lecturer at the Educational morning in Belgrade; Aleksandar Ajzinberg, architect, Holocaust survivor,
lecturer at the Educational morning
in Belgrade; Dragica Milić, Minister of
culture of Montenegro assistant for
cultural and artistic production; Ilija
Subotić, councillor for the audio-visual
activities at the Ministry of culture
of Montenegro; Biljana Srbljanović,
playwright and Heartefact Fund president of the board; Oliver Rathkolb,
University of Vienna professor and participant in panel discussion; Alexandra
Föderl-Schmid, Der Standard editorin-chief and panel discussion moderator; Lena Reichmuth, Austrian actress;
Ela Novaković and Žarko Erenfrajnd,
guests for the ‘Some things shouldn’t
be hidden’ film; Srđan Ćešić, author of
the exhibition ‘Ništa ni o čemu’; Jakob
Finci, president of La Benevolencija;
dr. Vladimir Šalamon, president of the
Jewish community Bet Israel and the
director of Bejahad; Luciano Kaluža,
representative of Mreža za izgradnju
mira; Nemanja Kostić, DJ; 43
volunteers.
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Partners on all regional editions
of Festival of Tolerance
CityofZagrebrecognizes the value
of the Festival back in 2010, when it
became regular sponsor and stable
partner of the Festival of Tolerance
Zagreb. The City also helps with other
projects of the Association, such as Educational mornings tour and regional
editions of the Festival. Thus here are
described the activities co-financed by
City Office for Education, Culture and
Sports.
TheInternationalHolocaust
RemembranceAlliance(IHRA)is
an intergovernmental body, founded
in 1998, whose purpose is to place
political and social leaders’ support
behind the need for Holocaust education, remembrance and research both
nationally and internationally. IHRA
currently has 31 member countries
and eight observer countries. One of
IHRA’s key roles is to contribute to the
funding of relevant projects through
its grant strategy, with strong multilateral elements in order to create
sustainable structures for Holocaust
education. IHRA financially supported
the project of the Festival of Tolerance
and Educational mornings for 2013
and 2014/2015.
MirkoIlićCorp. was founded in
1995 as a multidisciplinary studio
specialized for graphic design, 3D
animation and illustration. Studio is
especially recognized for its strong
visual concepts, it won multiple awards
by numerous organizations, including
the Society of Illustrators, the Society of Publication Designers, the Art
Directors Club, I.D. Magazine, Print
Magazine, HOW magazine, the Society
of Newspaper Design and many more.
Mirko Ilić cooperates with the Association since 2008 and created the visual
identity for the Festival of Tolerance,
including logotypes for almost all its
previous editions..
TheCroatianAudiovisualCentre
(HAVC)is the Government-backed
strategic agency for the audio-visual
sector in Croatia. It aims to stimulate audio-visual industry as well as
to promote the audio-visual culture
throughout Croatia. It was founded
in 2008 as a result of the new Law
on Audio-visual Activities with the
goal of systematic promotion of the
audio-visual creativity in the Republic
of Croatia. In accordance with the
National Programme for audio-visual
production, strategic objectives of
the Centre are: ensuring the implementation of audio-visual legislation,
thorough functioning of the Centre
and the continuity of audio-visual
production, increasing visibility of
domestic, European and international
film, increase the independence of the
Croatian Cinematheque and provide
adequate protection, restoration and
presentation of audio-visual heritage,
stimulate export of film services and
digitize the cinema sector.
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VIENNA, AUSTRIA
LET’SCEEFilmFestival
Cineplexx
CETINJE, MONTENEGRO
MinistarstvokultureCrneGore
Kraljevsko pozorište Zetski dom
SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
LaBenevolencija
Mrežazaizgradnjumira
Kino Meeting Point
Jevrejska opština Sarajevo
Bejahad
BHRT
Radio Sarajevo
Oslobođenje
JEVREJSKA
OPŠTINA
SARAJEVO
BELGRADE, SERBIA
HeartefactFund
AICFoundationInc.
Dom omladine Beograda
Ustanova kulture Parobrod
O3ONE
Grad Beograd
Gradska opština Stari grad
Marsh Creative Production
Publikum
Erste banka
Hotel Excelsior Beograd
B92
AgitPop
Naxi radio
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EDUCATIONAL MORNINGS TOUR
2014/2015
Educational mornings tour
For the school year 2014 / 2015, the
Festival is preparing the fifth edition of
the Educational mornings tour, bringing this program once more across
Croatia.
Four programs have already been held,
as we returned to the cities of Rijeka,
Knin, and Zadar, and had a first presentation in Sisak.
The program in Rijeka was organized at and in partnership with the
Art-cinema Croatia on September 24,
2014, the program in Knin was held on
September 25 in Croatian Army Home
“Kralj Zvonimir” in cooperation with
the City of Knin, while the Educational
morning in Zadar, co-organized with
the City of Zadar, took place a day
after, on September 26 at the Puppet
Theatre. Educational morning in Sisak,
again realized in the cooperation with
the local city government, was organized on January 19, 2015, at the “Kristalna kocka vedrine” Culture House.
The program was intended for the
elementary and high school pupils
aged between 13 and 15, and the
interest was traditionally great as 1260
young people participated in the education. The whole tour was realized
with the support of the City of Zagreb,
International Holocaust Remembrance
Association and Ministry of Science,
Education and Sports of the Republic
of Croatia.
The film selected for this tour is
“The Boy in the Striped Pajamas”, an adaptation of the John Boyne’s bestseller,
a story told from the perspective of
eight-year-old Bruno. When his family
moves from their home in Berlin to a
strange new house in Poland, young
Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who
lives on the other side of the fence
where everyone seems to be wearing
striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel’s
fate as a Jewish prisoner or the role his
own Nazi father plays in his imprisonment, Bruno embarks on a dangerous
journey inside the camp’s walls. This
film was already a part of the Educational mornings program in Zagreb in
2009 and 2010 when it received great
reactions and comments by students
so we decided to include it once again
in the program, enabling new generations to see this powerful and moving
story.
After the screenings, Branko Lustig
as usually addressed the students,
telling them his personal story from
the concentration camps Auschwitz
and Bergen-Belsen, urging the youth
to accept the people different from
themselves and to respect and cherish
their peers regardless o f their nationality, religion and race. This is the only
way to build a harmonious coexistence
and prosperous society. Affected by
an illness, Branko Lustig wasn’t able to
travel to Sisak so the recording of his
lecture from the Educational morning
in Osijek in 2013 was screened instead,
as the students were also invited to
send him all their questions regarding
the program to our e-mail.
The students awarded the film and
the lectures with excellent grades on
their ballots (the lowest average grade
for the film out of these four programs
was 4.64, and for the lecture 4.69),
while some of the pupils’ comments
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Educational morning tour - Rijeka
Branko Lustig lecturing in
front of a full theatre
Educational morning tour - Zadar
pupils and students listening to the lecture
were touching. Here are just a few of
them:
“This is a story that changes the
worldview.”
“This film was one of the saddest
and most touching films that I have
ever seen. I will remember it forever,
just like the sentences told by Branko
(Lustig).”
After reaching the agreement with
our partners, the Međimurje County
and the Jewish Community Čakovec,
the Educational morning program
will also return to Čakovec in the first
quarter of 2015.
Branko Lustig held another lecture
on the topic of the Holocaust on
October 15, 2014, at the “Ban Josip
Jelačić” high school in Zaprešić. The
lecture was held as a part of the
“Double Burden – Teaching about the
National Socialism and the Holocaust
in Europe”, a project initiated by the
Goethe-Institut in Croatia, on which
the Festival of Tolerance is one of the
main partners. Branko Lustig presented
the pupils from “Ban Josip Jelačić”
and “Lovassy‐László” (partnering high
school from Veszprém) the historical
context which led to the Holocaust,
told them about his own experiences
from the period of imprisonment in
concentration camps and gave them
several practical tips for the short films
about the holocaust and symbols of
hatred which they will be making. The
Festival will provide these young film
makers assistance throughout the
whole duration of the project (until
the second half of 2015).
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