BIOGRAPHY

Boško Picula was born in 1973 in Šibenik. He graduated from the Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb with a degree in political science, a master's degree in international relations and a doctorate in comparative politics. Following Croatian cinematography, its co-production collaborations, foreign and animated films, he has published film reviews and essays in a number of media, and is a co-author of several shows on film on Croatian Radio Television (Café cinéma, Kokice, Animatik). He has participated in selection committees and judging panels of several Croatian and foreign film events. In 2016/17, he was the artistic advisor in charge of animated film at the Art Council of the Croatian Audio-Visual Centre while in 2018/19 he was the artistic advisor for Croatian minority co-productions.

BRIEF REVIEW OF SELECTED FILMS

The films that were considered this year and ultimately selected for the Festival of Tolerance program testify that tolerance is needed all over the world more than ever before, at least in recent years. The diversity of topics, authorial approaches and different film genres and types of films that have found themselves under the common denominator of tolerance this year, confirm that in the third decade of the 21st century mutual respect is under a great threat. Brave, communicative and artistically relevant, this year's films introduce us to a world geographically distant from ours, as well as those in our immediate vicinity. In both cases, however - these are our worlds - because human beings, no matter how different, all share the need for respect, understanding and protection in their humanity. Film art has the power to meet that need in a truly strong way.