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 ...

Bosnian-born director Jasmila Zbanic, who survived the 1995 war in Sarajevo, wanted to make a film that exposes the bureaucracy of war from a female lens. Zbanic’s film, “Quo Vadis Aida,” centers on ...

The European Film Awards, Europe’s biggest awards celebration, revealed its major winners during a mostly virtual ceremony on Saturday, December 11. The night was originally slated for an in-person ...

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 ...

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 ...

The breakup of Yugoslavia ignited a decade-long series of wars and ethnic conflicts in the Balkans. And in July 1995, Bosnian Serb forces systematically murdered around 8000 Muslim men and boys from ...

Filmmaker Jasmila Zbanic was a 17-year-old student living in Sarajevo with her family when the Bosnian war began in April 1992. As clashes over Bosnia's referendum for independence first started, she ...

Jasmila Zbanic’s Quo Vadis, Aida?, which debuted at Venice this year, is Bosnia’s entry for the 2021 International Oscar race. The movie follows the titular Aida, a translator for the UN in a small ...

UPDATE: Jasmila Žbanić’s Quo Vadis, Aida? was the big winner at the 34th European Film Awards tonight. The story of a woman’s fight to save her family during the true events of the 1995 Bosnian War ...

Jasmila Žbanić’s war drama about the 1995 genocide in Srebrenica also picked up this year's critics prize. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief The Balkan war drama Quo Vadis, Aida? by director ...

Films set among genocide can border on “trauma porn,” while a few like “Life Is Beautiful” and “The Pianist” reach divine heights by setting deeply human stories amongst unimaginable horrors. “Quo ...