The film festival this year featured more than 60 films about the Holocaust and tolerance and current topics close to the festival.
The 11th edition of the festival ended with the screening of the filmI Am Not Your Negro, a 2016 American documentary film directed by Raoul Peck, based on James Baldwin's unfinished manuscript, Remember This House.
Narrated by actor Samuel L. Jackson, the film explores the history of racism in the United States through Baldwin's reminiscences of civil rights leaders Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr, as well as his personal observations of American history
One of the films shown was the documentary "Sacred" by Thomas Lennon, a guest at the festival. The film, which has won an Oscar and an Emmy award, explores, with the help of 40 film crews around the world, the significance of faith as a primary human experience.
Another guest at the festival was Austrian actor, director and screenwriter Karl Markovics.
The festival promotes its ideas about tolerance with numerous programmes, exhibitions, discussions, concerts and round tables. They included a presentation of a book by Italian chemist, writer and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi, two exhibitions, and lectures by world-renowned Croatian film producer, two-time Oscar winner and Holocaust survivor Branko Lustig and historian Daniel Wildmann, as well as a round table and eight discussions about current social topics.
The Festival of Tolerance started as the Jewish Film Festival with the mission to spread the truth about and commemorate the Holocaust, but with time it grew into a festival promoting dialogue and tolerance.
Over the past eleven years films shown at the festival were seen by more than 120,000 people. The festival was supported by prominent film workers like Steven Spielberg, Stefan Ruzowitzky, Stellan Skarsgard, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Rade Serbedzija, Volker Schloendorff and Istvan Szabo.
This year's festival edition focused on the legacy of fascism, refugees, and intolerance to those who are different.
Admission to all screenings was free.