Tolerance festival brings film, theatre, talks and more

Ljubljana – The 8th House of Tolerance festival, this year entitled the House of Others, will open tonight with the screening of Exodus 91, a docu-narrative film about an Israeli diplomat sent to Ethiopia in 1991 to negotiate the airlift of 15,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel. The screening is to be attended by the film’s director Micah Smith.

The festival is a collaboration of two Ljubljana institutions, the Mini Teater and the Jewish Cultural Centre, and features until 21 September 15 films, several theatre productions, an exhibition, a concert, as well as talks and lectures.

The films bring insight into stories thematising tolerance, human rights, individuals-state relations, activism, media propaganda, refugees, wars, and cultural memory.

Mini Teater will play four of its productions: La Machine de Turing and All Birds, both directed by Ivica Buljan, Seven Seconds of Eternity by Jean-Claude Berutti, and A Little Match Girl by Steve Tiplady.

Piano player Sigrid Hagn and viola player Romane Rauscher will give a concert dedicated to Jewish female composers and the memory of the horrors they had to endure.

The life and career of Budimir Lončar, the last foreign minister of the former Yugoslavia, will be presented with a book written by Croatian historian Tvrtko Jakovina, with Lončar, now 98, on hand.

A special segment of the festival will showcase Jewish cuisine, while pupils and students are invited to film screenings accompanied with talks on tolerance.

Jewish Life in Ljubljana, a co-production of the festival organisers and the Yiddishpiel Theatre from Tel Aviv, was played at the end of August as part of the pre-festival events, and another “stumbling stone” was unveiled last Friday, this time in front of the Cukrarna Gallery.

The festival is funded by the city of Ljubljana, the Slovenian culture and foreign ministries, the US, Israeli, Dutch and Polish embassies, as well as the Austrian and French cultural centre from Ljubljana. All events expect theatre are free of charge.

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