ZAGREB, March 25, 2019 – The 13th edition of the Festival of Tolerance will take place in Zagreb’s Europa and Kinoteka cinemas from 7 to 13 April, featuring over 60 award-winning films and a diverse entertainment and education programme.
The focus of this year’s festival is on the importance of accepting and respecting diversity and the fundamental principles of equality and justice, and especially on the burning global issue of refugees.
The supporting programme includes two exhibitions. An exhibition of photographs entitled “They”, inspired by the Aleppo Studio project “Picturing (new) European citizens”, will be staged on the streets of Zagreb on 1 April. On show will be pop-up installations with portraits of four refugees from Syria, Iraq and Iran currently living in Croatia.
The exhibition “They fill no space: Reviving memories of Polish Jews” will be put on display outside the Museum of Contemporary Art from 5 to 17 April. It features reproductions of murals created by urban activists in towns where Jews had lived in considerable numbers before the Second World War to remind their fellow citizens who their neighbours had once been. The exhibition will be staged in collaboration with POLIN, the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw.
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