Actor Boris Isakovic, director Jasmila Zbanic, actors Jasna Duricic and Raymond Thiry pose for photographers at the photo call for the film Quo Vadis, Aida ? during the 77th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy on September 3, 2020. [File: Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP]
Quo Vadis, Aida?, Jasmila Žbanić’s gut-wrenching film about the 1995 genocide in Srebrenica, the end-game of the Bosnian war, is this year’s Bosnian entry for the foreign feature category of the Academy Awards. Directed by Žbanić and produced by her small independent company Deblokada, the film is set to compete against the film industry’s favourite – Another Round, a Danish comedy-drama about male bonding, mid-life crisis, and binge-drinking. The contrast between the worlds that the two films inhabit and represent could not be greater.
Why Quo Vadis, Aida? deserves an Oscar
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Why Quo Vadis, Aida? deserves an Oscar
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Quo Vadis, Aida? Movie Review
By
Director: Jasmila Zbanic
Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 2/16/21
Opens: March 5, 2021 at Angelica Theatre in NY. VOD March 15, 2021
I recall in my high-school days the units on World War 1 and World Was II that emphasized that all wars are caused by four general conditions. They are: Imperialism, Nationalism, Alliances, and the fourth is given the fancy term “international anarchy.” That last item means nothing more than there were no effective peacekeeping forces able to intercede against the warring parties to force them into peace. We do have the United Nations now, the UN does send well-armed peacekeeping forces to war zones, but that international organization has been criticized for its impotence against aggression.