Documentary Film Festival - "Humanity in the World" 

ICF arranged the 4th International Documentary Film Festival "Humanity in the World". The festival was held in Stockholm on the 17-20th of March 2005. Approx. 800 people (among them politicians, teachers, students and representatives from various organizations) came to see 35 films during the 3,5 days of the festival. All films concerning human dignity and tolerance.

"Searching for the truth about humanity" - Essay written by Leo Kantor, Chairman of the Festival Organising Committee, for the festival program folder.

"Documentaries show the political within esthetics" - Essay about the film festival, written by Astrid Söderbergh Widding, Cultural commentator for Svenska Dagbladet and professor of film studies at University of Stockholm.
                                                                                      Swedish version     Polish version

"Leo Kantor´s speech at the opening of the 15th Open Russian National Documentary Film Festival in Ekaterinburg" - Published in the festival folder of the 4th International Documentary Film Festival "Humanity in the World". 
 

Pressrelease 

Leo Kantor. Institution for Political Science at the university of Stockholm, has by the president of Poland, Aleksander Kwasniewski, been awarded with the Cross of Knights, one of the greatest awards in Poland, in the Presidential residence at the 50th anniversary of the United Students associations of Poland.



Awards were given to some of Polands most prominent cultural persons, scientists and politicians.

In 1968 Leo Kantor came to Sweden as a political refugee during the anti-Semitic campaign which took place alongside the student revolution that same year. Before going into exile he worked as a teacher at a university and was active within the student movement. Since 1994 he is the chairman of The Central Federation of Immigrants in Sweden, the leading multi-cultural association in the country, of national and multinational societies.

Leo Kantor has initiated many actions, conferences and debates, with tolerance, human rights, democracy and anti-racism as the theme. He was the first one in Sweden to involve questions about the Holocaust in political context.

In 1997 he arranged a national conference where representatives from the Auschwitz Museum and the swedish government met for the first time together with the Chairman of the United Nations Committee Against Race Discrimination.

In september 1999 he arranged the filmfestival "Human dignity. Tolerance and the Holocaust as seen through the medium of the Documentary Film" in Stockholm. This was the first filmfestival dedicated to matters of tolerance. In april 2000 he was elected into the board of Association of Holocaust Children in Sweden. He is also a boardmemeber in the Swedish section of European Migrant's Forum seated in Brussels.