March 11-31, 2021 (part 1)
Absolutely rich
programme, exceptional participants!
A quarter of a century after the start of the Music Film Fest in 1997, the Sofia International Film Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary. Started as a thematic festival of cinema and music, which has undergone upward development over the years, Sofia Film Festival has become one of the most important film events in Central and Eastern Europe, the only Bulgarian film festival accredited by FIAPF, included in the list of 50 best unmissable film events in the world and in the calendar of FIPRESCI.
The SFF has hosted a galaxy of world filmmakers, including Wim Wenders, Alan Parker, Nikita Mikhalkov, Volker Schlondorf, Agnes Varda, Jiri Menzel, Costa Gavras, Terry Gilliam, Emir Kusturica, Otar Yoseliani, Bille August, Krzysztof Zanussi, Agnieszka Holland, Hugh Hudson, Claudia Cardinale, Rupert Everett, Franco Nero, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Jerry Schatzberg, Danis Tanovic, Pavel
Quo Vadis, Aida review - a Bosnian woman confronts genocide | reviews, news & interviews Quo Vadis, Aida review - a Bosnian woman confronts genocide
Quo Vadis, Aida review - a Bosnian woman confronts genocide
The 1995 massacre of Muslims at Srebrenica told with chilling intimacy
by Mark KidelFriday, 22 January 2021
Jasna Duričić as Aida
Jasmila Žbanić’s latest film, once again about the people of her native Bosnia and Herzegovina, is hardly an easy watch. Focusing on Aida, a passionate and highly capable interpreter for the UN forces in former Yugoslavia, she unflinchingly tells the story of the 1995 massacre of well over 6000 Muslim Bosnian men and