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Organizer: Zagreb Jewish Film Festival Association

NARRATIVE REPORT

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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 at-tracted 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 profes-sionals) 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 present-ing and spreading the network of global festivals in front of a Croatian au-dience and professionals. This unique in the world market has proven to be suf-ficiently challenging and we managed to attract six world-renowned festivals in very short period of time. Repre-sentatives 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 pho-tographs 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 ad-dress pupils and students, as well as the general public. As a necessity of devel-oping civil society we adopted the defi-nition 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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Round table on Looted Art — The Monuments Men

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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 replace-ment 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 spe-cific 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 pro-grams 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 coexist-ence 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 coexist-ence, 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 environ-ment. 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-institution-al education.

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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 cliches 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 espe-cially satisfied that the average rating by the audience was high 4.6. The appeal of the festival was con-firmed 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 Aus-trian 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 op-portunity 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

Ralph Fiennes,actor from the Schindler’s List

Screening of the Schindler’s List

Chantal De Rudder,screenwriter of the Jewish Cardinal

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Cannes. Festival organizers believe that in today’s world of endangered values and increase of the influence of right-oriented extremism, it is necessary to highlight positive life stories by the in-dividuals who distinguished themselves with courage, kindness and persistence that every man should possess, in one of the darkest periods of European his-tory, the Holocaust. We wish to send out the message to our faithfull 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 Jean-Marie 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,

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Video message from Steven Spielberg, director of the Schindler’s List, to the Zagreb audience

Mirko Ilić, author of the visual identity of the Festival of Tolerance and the visuals for the 20th anniversary of the Schindler’s List

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Zagreb, May 18-24, 2014, Europa and Tuškanac cinemasScreenings of 64 national, regional and foreign production:• 15 feature films• 42 documentary films• 7 short films

Out of more than 300 preselection 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 broad-est sense of the word. We kept the practice of screening the films in two theaters, 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 Hitch-cock 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 anni-versary of Schindler’s List with special screening. We are honored that Ralph Fiennes, a famous British actor, was a special guest of the Festival. It should be noted that the projection was at-tended 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 ques-tions 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 crit-ics; André Singer, a world-renowned producer and director, with Prisoner of

Film program

Still from the motion picture Calm at Sea

Academy Award winner Volker Schlöndorff, director of Calm at Sea

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Paradise and The Act of Killing in his portfolio, who presented the afore-mentioned 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 theaters for in-terfering with Polish history (Jerusalem Film Festival – The Avner Shalev Yad Vashem Chairman’s Award, Polish Film Awards – Eagle for best actor, produc-tion 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 Ameri-can 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 years competition in short documentaries category, Open Heart, last years Acad-emy Award nominee in short docu-mentary category (Aspen Shortsfest

Academy Award winner Stefan Ruzowitzky, director of Radical Evil

Video message from Liam Neeson,protagonist from the Schindler’s List

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– 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 Interna-tional Film Festival best human rights picture, Morocco Ahmed Attia Award intercultural dialog MEDIMED, best do-cumentary on Jewish Eye Festivalu, best debutant – Tanger National Film Festi-val, 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 Cur-rent Affairs category, audience award

– HumanDoc, Warsaw).

After each screening we asked the audi-ence 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 bal-lots 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

Still from the documentary Night will fall

Still from the Aftermath

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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 play-ing 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 cin-ema capacity is 503 seats) and Jewish Cardinal, the only film shown twice, at the same time in both theaters, 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 CroatiaLast 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 center 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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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 partici-pate 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 teach-ing 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 mean-ing. 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 tocreate a better society through activism and democracy. “It is very difficult to reeducate 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 a 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

Educational program

Educational mornings on Holocaust

Pupil participating in discussion after the lecture

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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 coopera-tion 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 adapta-tion of the Uri Orlev bestseller, directed by Academy Award winner Pepe Dan-quart. 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 compel-ling film based on true events. This German-French production mo-tion 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 national-ity, religion or race. The program also brings the topic of the Holocaust closer to the children, through the perspec-tive of the protagonist who is of similar age to the audience. The film had a great response and a very good reac-tion 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 concentra-tion 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 ha-tred 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 repre-sentative in Croatia and longtime lec-turer at the Zagreb Educational morn-ing 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 sepa-rated 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.

Academy award winner Branko Lustig, lecturer at the Educational morning about Holocaust, with Terence Pike, UNHCR representative in Croatia

Mirko Ilić, lecturer at the Educational morning,

“Symbols of Hatred”

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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 a ccordance with a theme of the Festival, is tolerance, and the participants were selected according to the quality of ap-plications, with special emphasis on the quality of the proposed scenarios on a given topic and CV’s. The objectives of the International Tal-ent 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 competi-tion 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 su-perieure 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, Warszaw-ska Szkoła Filmowa, Akademija umet-nosti, Beograd, Akademija scenskih umjetnosti, Sarajevo, etc.Tendering was open from March 6th

International Talent Workshop

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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 pro-duction 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 specif-ic 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 ITWBrankoLustig – president of the Festi-val, born in Osijek, Croatia and gradu-ated 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 direc-tor of German ancestry, winner of nu-merous 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

Still from the ITW set of Games, acting Ema Pražić, Jadranka Đokić and Janko Volarić Popović

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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 – ap-plicants 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 showreels. 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. TerezaKovarova (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 innova-tion 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 excep-tional 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 theater 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, 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 com-munication of renowned European and world film festivals, film industry professionals, but also presenting festi-vals 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.GuestFestivalsIDFA (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 it’s 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 – connect-ing 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 accompany-ing programs, such as workshop and educational program, we can point out a few examples of interconnection and agreement on cooperation between in-dividual representatives of local and vis-iting 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, Re-start produkcija), Agron Lešdedaj (ETNO film Festival), Hrvoje Mabić (FADE IN production) and others.

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At screenings of the films used by 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.PROGRAM

Ulla Bergström, executive director, DocPoint Helsinki Film Festival

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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 Pas8.30 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 pres-

entation 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 heldevery 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 over-seeing 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 – Friday6.30 PM – presentation Rolling FF (video message by Milica Milović)7 PM – screening of the film Our School 94’

ROLLING FILM FESTIVALThanks to its program and activities Rolling Film Festival has become most respected event in Kosovo in the context of the integration of Roma

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community and culture. Every year it brings new films that promote and encourage society of equality without discrimination as well as the presenta-tion 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 Coordina-tor of Volunteers’ Center of Vojvodina from Novi Sad, she works in the field of peace promotion, social justice, sustain-able development, respect of environ-ment, 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 FESTIVALOne 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 masterclasses. Documentary program for children and youth DOK-KINO 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 Coordina-tor. 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, as-sociation 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’

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recent Croatian films, festival regularly offers international program as well as a variety of thematic programs and retro-spectives. 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 interna-tional 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 FESTIVALOne 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 Uni-ted 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 interna-tional media. He has extensive links to the European/Irish film industry. Garret current lives in Sarajevo and is an Ex-ecutive 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 em-phasize 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 Interna-tional 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).This Festival is an important public

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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 discrimi-nation, racism, homophobia, xenopho-bia 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 rel-evant institutions. Thus arose the need and desire to present an art exhibition by painter and Holocaust survivor Adolf Frankl, called Visions from In-ferno – Art against oblivion in Zagreb, the Croatian capital. Visits of elemen-tary 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 victimsit 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 forgot-ten. 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 referen-dum, supported by radical right wing conservatives, passed in Croatia with a vote of 2:1 in favor 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 he rallied the crowd at a soccer match

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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 cur-rent government is left wing liberal and that we entered the EU only recently.

ADOLF FRANKL “ART AGAINST OBLIVION – VISIONS FROM INFERNO“Gallery Klovićevi dvori, May 5-25, 2014Adolf 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 Auschwitz-Birkenau. 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 Altham-mer where he was liberated by the Red Army on January 27th, 1945. In late April of the same year he returned to Bratis-lava 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 Eich-mann – anthropomorphic view, while countless faces, figures and outlines of the buildings in Bratislava, like a mosaic, can be found on the Remembering the Rabbis from Bratislava. Bratislava,

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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 dis-order and chaos. These transformations are shown metaphorically, even in the context of naive art. Son of Adolf Frankl, Mr. Thomas Frankl, opepend the Art Forum gallery in Vienna in 2006, on Judenplatz, Jewish Square, the historic center of Vienna’s Jewish life. In addition to the perma-nent 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 im-mune 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. Ac-

cording 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 un-der 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 visi-tors. Entry was free. School of applied arts and design Zagreb, Hospitality school Utrine, elementary school Lauder-Hugo Kon, highschool 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 exhibi-tion of photographs from the set of Schindler’s List, all property of Universal Studios. Famous actor Ralph Fiennes visited the exhibition and together with

Ralph Fiennes and Branko Lustig at the exhibition of photographs from the set of Schindler’s List

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Mr. Branko Lustig recalled filming. The exhibition was seen by 3850 visitors.

STREET ART AGAINST OBLIVION May14th,2014,Wednesday,2PMHomeoftheCroatianAssociationofArtists,Žrtavafašizmasquare16May15-25th,2014inCentarCvjetni,PetraPreradovićaSquare6/1Considering 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 at-tention 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, intoler-ance 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, homosexu-als, 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 Stu-

dentski 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

AutHorSAna BeloševićBorn in 1979, Ana graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 2006. Since then she’s been flirting with sculpture, painting, animation, ambient instal-lation and performance. She’s been creating covers for Algoritam publish-ing house. Ana exhibited in several solo and group exhibitions, is a proud asso-ciate of DD produkcija and a favourite teacher in Trades and Crafts School. Sretan BorIllustrator and muralist, graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, member of the Croatian Association

Slaven Lunar Kosanović,artistic intervention on a photograph

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of Artists and Master Jury Member at Sint-Lucas Beeldende Kunst in Gent, Belgium. Since 2006 he’s been practic-ing 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 ex-group Art of Asfalt which promoted urban art. He has exhibited in numer-ous 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 KosanovićSlaven Lunar Kosanović is a Zagreb-based 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 MilićMiron Milić was born in 1980 in Croa-tia where he enrolled at the School of Applied Arts. Eight years later, he grad-uated 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 NujićMarko 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 / illus-trator, his major interest, for more than half of his life so far, is graffiti art, as well as, more recently, paper collage.

Berislav ŠimičićBorn in Našice, works in Zagreb, where he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 2006. Berislav is an illustra-tor and „street artist“, and he has had solo and group exhibitions in Rovinj, Zadar, Zagreb and Velika Gorica.

Stipan TadićStipan 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.Miron Milić, intervention on a photograph

of a Križanićeva Gymnasium hallway, Street Art against oblivion

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This year Festival of Tolerance continues with literary evenings that raise aware-ness 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 Festi-val two books will be presented:

“THE LAST JEW OF TREBLINKA”CHIL RAJCHMANMay22nd,2014,INSTITUTFRANÇAIS,Medijateka,Preradovićeva5This exquisite and crushing memoir was originally written in Yiddish and was translated by famous writer Gilles Ro-zier (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 par-ticipate 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 Yitsk-hok Niborski and Rachel Ertel and in Jerusalem with Avraham Nowershtern and Chone Shmeruk. He completed his PhD in Yiddish literature on the life, lit-erary 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.AuthorChilRajchman, born on June 14, 1914 in Lódź. He survived the hell of Tre-blinka. 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 mem-bers 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 KLARIĆMay23rd,2014,BOOKSA,Martićeva14dThere are three problems in the core of this historical novel: death, creation and history. The main character Izak Perl-berg, 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 concentra-tion camp.AuthorIvanKlarić, 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 collec-tions: Ruže i ništavilo, Mjesečeva kuća and Noino zrcalo. The first two collec-tions 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 Hol-lywood 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 poli-cies, 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 manifesta-tion. From 1995 until 2003 Gašparović was the senior curator and Head of paintings and graphics collections of the museum. Prior to that, from 1983

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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 De-partment 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 agree-ment 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.Medijateka, promotion of the Chil

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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 inten-tion 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 te mnoge druge.

Wednesday, May 21st, 2014 @ VIP club TrgbanaJosipaJelačića9VITA MAVRIČ & AKORD QUARTET (SI)Jewish chansons ethno concertVita Mavrič is famous, award-winning Slovenian musician and singer-song-writer. 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 expres-sions that grow into passionate lyrics and music interpretation.

Friday, May 23rd, 2014 @ VIP club TrgbanaJosipaJelačića9JOYCE MUNIZ (Exploited / AT)Funk Guru & phillipe b2b (CFSN)Lucija & Maja Pa b2bBorn in 1983 in Sao Paulo, Joyce Muniz arrived in Vienna during the mid nine-ties and was soon introduced to the vi-brant 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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In addition to her DJing and produc-tion work, Joyce earned an Amadeus (Austrian equivalent to a Grammy) for her vocal work with Austrian rap-per Skero. Furthermore, Joyce Muniz released the Ep “Droppin’ Pressure” on legendary UK House Label 20/20 Vision. Now, Brazilian-raised, Vienna-based 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 PavlaHatza16PHILLITCHEVANJE (itch&phillipe)Anto (Bounce, Whateverest)

Programmed for party, they combine the incompatible. Their music is future-retro 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 bounda-ries 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 well-known old and new music numbers mixed with love and feeling for rhythm by the old dancing music-lovers.

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1. Number of visitors 0f film screenings 8027 - Zagreb, 197 - Rijeka

2. Number of visitors Educational mornings – 998

3. Number of attendants and visi-tors of the follow-up activities: round table, exhibitions, music program, literary evenings – 25.682

4. 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 attend-ed Festival market; 6 screeningsRijeka

a) film program: 7 screenings – national, regional and foreign production: 2 feature films, 3 documentary films, 2 short films

5. 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

Media coverage and the num-ber of distributed promotional materials – 401 media advertise-ments 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

7. 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.

8. 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 Zagrebu and same in Rijeka.

Evaluation of project results

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Intergenerational solidarity project

For several years in a row, the organizer of the Festival conducts the develop-ment of intergenerational solidarity as a pilot project, opening the possibility for all generations to participate as volunteers in the organization and im-plementation of the project. Numerous applications and the interest shown for volunteering at the 8th Festival of Toler-ance 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 applica-tions and the shown enthusiasm, we can happily and with confidence con-clude 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 oth-ers to follow this idea of the Festival of Tolerance – Jewish Film Festival.

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Festival of Tolerance Guests

RalphFiennes

OrhanGaljuš

AndréSinger

OttfriedFischer

HermannWeiskopf

RichardBenson

PeterMair

DanTanaRokBiček EdGaffney

SimonWieland

UllaBergström MartijntePas VitaMavrič

JacquesOuaniche

Georg-ChristianLack

StefanRuzowitzky

AndreaIkićBöhm

ChantalDeRudder

VolkerSchlöndorff

Bob Entrop

Jeanine Meerapfel

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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, Valeri-ja 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.

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, Bo-jana Gavrilov, Vladimira Spindler, Davor Štern, Alfi Kabiljo, g. Josip Roglić, Orbi-co Member of the BoD, Damir Urban, Milica Czerny Urban and numerous other dignitaries and guests from diffe-rent spheres of social and public life.

KamalHachkar

MirkoIlić

DorisSchechter

MagdalenaZelasko

ZvonimirZvonar JoyceMuniz

LaureBalzanOuaniche TomSharir

LidijaŠpegar

BlažKužnik

Maja Šubarić Mahmuljin

DeniseBenmosche

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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, 2014Museum of Arts and Crafts, Trg Maršala Tita 10, Zagreb (76 attendants)

Film program in ZagrebMay 18-24, 2014Europa cinema, Varšavska 3; Tuškanac cinema, Tuškanac 1, Zagreb (8027 visitors)

Film program in RijekaJune 9-10, 2014Art-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, 2014GuestlecturerMirkoIlić,

“SymbolsofHatred”Europa cinema, Varšavska 3(425 visitors)May 21, 2014GuestlecturerTerencePike,theUNHCRRepresentativeinCroatia,andBrankoLustig,PresidentoftheFestivalandtheHolocaustsurvivor 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, 2014HFS, Tuškanac 1, Zagreb (7 attendants)

Festival marketMay 22-24, 2014Centar Cvjetni, Trg Petra Preradovića 6/1 (223 visitors)

Thematic exhibitions in ZagrebMay 5-25, 2014AdolfFrankl,ArtagainstOblivion,Klovićevi dvori Gallery, (963 visitors)May 18-24, 2014Schindler’sList,photographsfromtheset,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 eveningsMay 22, 2014Medijateka, Preradovićeva 5, Zagreb (48 visitors)May 23, 2014Booksa, Martićeva 14 D, Zagreb (37 visitors)

Music programMay 21, 2014VitaMavrič&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, 2014DJItch,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 FestivalCity of Zagreb

Patronage of the Adolf Frankl exhibitionMinistry of Culture, Republic of Croatia

Golden partnersMirko Ilić corp.Orbico d.o.o.Atlantic grupa d.d.International Holocaust Remembrance AllianceMercedes Benz | Star Import d.o.o.Unex Group

Silver partnersHrvatski audiovizualni centarZaklada AdrisMinistarstvo znanosti, obrazovanja i sportaDruštvo hrvatskih filmskih redateljaUNHCR HrvatskaHotel Sheraton ZagrebAustrijski kulturni forumSaints HillsOverseas ExpressPPD Distribucija – Aperol Spritz

Bronze partnersEuropapier Adria d.o.o.Veleposlanstvo Sjedinjenih Američkih DržavaGoethe Institut u HrvatskojMiadria d.o.o. Paprenjak d.o.o.Rezolucija d.o.o.Francuski Institut u ZagrebuPress clipping d.o.o. Jadran film d.d.Veleposlanstvo kraljevine Nizozemske u RHVeleposlanstvo kraljevine Maroko u RHVeleposlanstvo države Izrael u RHVeleučilište VERNAVC d.o.o.

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Grad ZagrebMirko Ilić Corp.Hrvatski audiovizualni centarInternational Holocaust Remembrance AllianceArt-kino CroatiaOrbico d.o.o.Atlantic grupa d.d.Zaklada AdrisPress clipping d.o.o.

Media partners HRTJutarnji listOtvoreni radioKlasikTVRadio 808 City timeNet.hrMojTV portalQueer.hrArteist.hrPazi snima seBugZarezDNAMonitor Forum.hrKanal RIRadio Rijeka

VenuesEuropa 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 5000 pcs. Festival poster B1 50 pcs. Program poster B1 50 pcs. Program flyer Festival ZG 5000 pcs. Street Art flyer 500 pcs. Festival market flyer 500 pcs. Music program flyer 1000 pcs. Literary evenings/Round table flyer 500 pcs. Schindler’s List flyer 500 pcs. Educational mornings’ poster – Ilić 100 pcs. Educational mornings’ poster – Lustig 100 pcs. Invitations FoT 800 pcs. Invitations “Schindler’s List” 500 pcs. Invitations Adolf Frankl 500 pcs. Acknowledgement volunteers 80 pcs. Acknowledgements partners (HR/EN) 150 pcs. ITW plaquette 10 pcs. Catalogue Adolf Frankl 1000 pcs. Poster Adolf Frankl B1 15 pcs. Poster Adolf Frankl 2m X 2m 15 pcs. Promo book ITW 30 pcs. Folder 500 pcs. Balnk notebook FoT 500 pcs. T-Shirts FoT 500 pcs. Badge FoT 1000 pcs. Canvas bags with logo 300 pcs. City Lights 30 pcs. (15 locations, May 01-28, 2014.) Billboards 20 pcs. (10 locations, May 01-28, 2014.) Ballots 10000 pcs. Hats 200 pcs.

rIJEKA Program flyer 500 pcs. Poster B1 20 pcs.