Location Zagreb, Croatia | Founded 2007 | |
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Language Croatian, English, other Website Zagreb Jewish Film Festival Instances 2016 Zagreb Jewish Film Festival | ||
The Zagreb Jewish Film Festival (JFF) is an annual film festival held in Zagreb, Croatia which is dedicated to preservation of memories on Holocaust and on raising public awareness about importance of tolerance.
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JFF was originated for the first time in 2007 under license and in collaboration with UK Jewish Film Festival. Festival is organized by the NGO also called Jewish Film Festival headed by Academy-Award-winner Branko Lustig. The festival takes place at the Zagreb Cinema Europa, one of the most beautiful and oldest art-cinemas in the area.
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Film program
Zagreb Jewish Film Festival's film programme, which includes feature films, documentaries and short films, is held at Cinema Europa.
Educational mornings
Since 2009 the festival has organised educational mornings about The Holocaust for students of different age groups.
Notable guests
Support
The Jewish Film Festival Zagreb is funded by the Austrian Cultural Forum and the city of Zagreb as the main sponsor. Among others, the sponsors of the festival in previous years were also Jutarnji list, Školska knjiga, Sheraton Hotels and Resorts, Atlantic Grupa, Mirko Ilić, McCann Erickson, Austrian Cultural Forum, Diners Club International, Erste Group, UNHCR, Jadran Film...