More than 60 award-winning films, famous film directors, actors and actresses, exhibitions, promotions, interactive educational and attractive musical programmes will be presented to you at one of the best-known Zagreb festivals co-founded by the Academy Award winner Branko Lustig
Festival of Tolerance – JFF Zagreb in partnership with UNHCR Croatia spent the autumn traveling all across Croatia, showing films and discussing about them with students in Karlovac, Poreč, Slavonski Brod and Split.
The program Film and Discussion brings the movie "Silent Child" to pupils of elementary schools in Zagreb! Today, at 12 o'clock, students have seen the movie at Kinoteka Cinema, which portrays a story about a girl and her family.
We visited Rijeka with our programme Film and Discussion and held a screening of the film "My Dreams, My Rights" which was followed by a lively discussion.
We are continuing with the programme Film and Discussion, againt in front of crowded schools! How did our last visit to Knin and Zadar go, find out in our latest follow-up!
The last day of the Festival was marked by many film projections, of which the "Thank you for Rain" was especially highlighted, followed by Tolerance talk "The Drops of Life". Afterwards there was a closing party at Melin Cafe...
Friday 13th at the 12th Festival of Tolerance brought abundance of events. The Austrian cultural forum at the Kontesa Club presented a promising but also already experienced Viennese jazz band Month of Sundays, while the whole day was marked by the projection of the film "The Sunset...
In the lecture cycle “The Education Morning”, through the life experience of survivors, young people are provided with a personal experience of the holocaust horrors to learn more from this tragic episode of world history about accepting diversity and approaching every man as a respect worthy...
We are proud of another festival location! For many Zagreb citizens Kinoteka cinema represents their first encounter with the world of films, it is impossible to delete its weekend matinees from childhood memories.
Second day of the Festival of Tolerance started by a lecture of an extraordinary Angelice Dass about her photographic project Humanae, promoting activist moments of advocating equality and tolerance through art.
The opening of the 12th Festival of Tolerance took place in a festive tone. This year, instead of addressing the guests, there was a minute of silence as a collective honoring the holocaust victims as well as all the victims of totalitarian regimes, for which the Festival is founded.
Numerous festival events are impossible to follow all at once, so video chronicles bring the best of each festival day. Look at the first announcement chronicle from the press conference at the Sheraton hotel highlighting the most important guests and events and follow us in the upcoming days...
As a small pre-opening of this year's Festival of Tolerance, since today it is possible to enjoy in the exhibition by Angélica Dass and her project Humanae - a collection of portrait photographs of people who reveal the true beauty of human colours.
Major Dodge Major Dodge will be a guest at the Festival of Tolerance as a producer of a documentary film “Bomb City”. The film based on a true story depicts one of the most controversial hate crimes in contemporary American history and trial questioned faith in the justice of the American...
After the screening of a short film Dear neighbors Deputy of the Ombudsman will address the issue of fight against violence and of discrimination in our society.
Nika Šaravanja with Alessandro d'Emilia is the director of the "Sunset Quire" documentary, created by the fragments of extinction of David Monacchi's eco-acoustic project, in which we follow the eco-acoustic composer Monacchi in his quest for a pure continuous 3D sound that he...
The film, which had its premiere at the beginning of the year at the Jewish Film Festival in Miami, presents another Holocaust witness, that, just like our Branko Lustig, devoted his life and work to recalling of those who were lost and the crown of his work is the Memorial Holocaust Miami Beach...
Angélica Dass is a Brazilian artist who lives and works in Madrid. She gained the international recognition through her key project Humanae, a collection of portrait photographs of people who reveal the true beauty of human colors, and the Croatian audience has the opportunity to for its...
The Festival of Tolerance is a kind of upgrading of the Jewish Film Festival, as was the title of the Festival for its first 8 years of existence. Social changes, an increase in violence and hate speech, as well as the general alienation of an individual from the collective responsibility for the...
During a press conference The Festival of Tolerance revealed what is expecting us during seven festival days - more than 70 films, two exhibitions, discussions, round tables, book and project presentations, already traditional educational mornings and the Festival market, two concerts and...
The International Day of Holocaust Remembrance was marked by the performance of the children's opera "Brundibár" at the Center for tolerance at the site of the old oil plant in Zagreb, with the support of the City of Zagreb and the Italian Institute for Culture.
The opening of the "Requiem for Auschwitz" exhibition by the Roman artist Ceija Stojka has attracted numerous people from political and public life, and the honor of opening opened with the mayor Bandić and the parliamentary representative Veljko Kajtazi who was present inspired by the...
First Brundibar performance was also a general reherseal for the upcoming Holocaust Remembrance Day. Never the less, the auditorium was filled up to the last seat and these pictures by Sanjin Kaštelan illustrate all the emotions and effort invested in its production...
For those who want more detailed insight into the libretto of the opera and the team behind this comprehensive project, see our brochure in Croatian and English.
Photos from the rehearsals give a promise of a spectacle! Little Stars Choral studio lead by prof. Šljivac has done incredible work and raised the production quality to the enviable level! Young voices are brilliant in their roles, and the director Krešimir Dolenčić is making sure that their...
Ceija Stojka as a part of the "Requiem for Auschwitz" exhibition will be presented to the local audience with 18 drawings and 17 acrylic paintings. The motives of nature and the literary testimonies of numerous camps where she spent her childhood witness to the horrors we are reminded of...