Director Jasmila Žbanić was rewarded with an Oscar nomination for her harrowing drama.
Berlin – It is one of the darkest chapters in recent European history: In the 1995 massacre in Srebrenica, almost 8,000 Bosnians – mostly men – were murdered by Ratko Mladić's army. The massacres were later classified as genocide. But how did the atrocities come about at that time? That is what the Berlin-based director Jasmila Žbanić now wants to tell with her harrowing drama "Quo Vadis, Aida?" The focus is on Aida. She worked as a translator for the United Nations during the Bosnian War. In July 1995 she saw first hand when the situation worsened.
Quo vadis, Aida ?, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria et al. 2020, 104 min., FSK from 12, by Jasmila Žbanić, with Jasna Duricic, Izudin Bajrovic, Boris Ler dpa
