The Bosnian filmmaker — nominated for both Oscar and BAFTA awards — discusses choosing to tell the story of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide with a "female sensibility towards the war." By Alex Ritman U.K ...
Twenty-five years after the Srebrenica massacre, Bosnian director Jasmila Zbanic, in Oscar nominee 'Quo Vadis, Aida?' returns to tell the story of the greatest atrocity of the Yugoslav War. By Scott ...
TIFF: Jasmila Žbanic's finely crafted epic exposes unspeakable Bosnian War horrors through the eyes of a mother and UN translator. Films set among genocide can border on “trauma porn,” while a few ...
In “Quo Vadis, Aida?,” Jasmila Žbanić’s swift and shattering movie about the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, a woman climbs onto a small structure and stares out over a barbed-wire fence into a sea of weary ...
She speaks multiple languages, including English, which is the common language of the UN workers. Aida has a family that includes her husband named Nihad and her two sons. Both her sons are teenagers.
Neon said Thursday that it is partnering with film-centric social media platform Letterboxd to make six of the distributor’s Oscar-shortlisted pics available exclusively on the service for a week ...
When a violent ethnic conflict broke out in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992, the writer-director Jasmila Zbanic was a teenager in Sarajevo, where she would spend the next three years living under siege ...
One of the most expensive Polish films ever made, Jerzy Kawalerowicz directs the ancient Roman filmmaking staple Quo Vadis. This remake follows in the style of the MGM Hollywood epic directed by ...
Think of it as the boutique label’s boutique label. Super Ltd., the distributor of the Oscar-nominated “Quo Vadis, Aida?,” is an offshoot of “Parasite” producer Neon, and was launched to handle more ...
After five years of working to get the Bosnian historical drama “Quo Vadis, Aida?” to the screen — a movie that needed nine nations to cofinance it, that premiered at the Venice Film Festival in the ...
“Quo Vadis, Aida?” took home the top prize at the European Film Awards on Saturday evening. Directed by Jasmila Žbanić, the film was named the European Film of 2021. Žbanić also took home the Best ...