Quo vadis, Aida? (2020)

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https://deadline.com/2021/02/oscar-s...td-1234697070/

Oscar-Shortlisted Bosnian War Drama ‘Quo Vadis, Aida?’ Lands At Neon’s Super Ltd

Neon’s boutique label Super Ltd has picked up North American rights to buzzy Bosnian drama Quo Vadis, Aida?, which is on this year’s shortlist for the International Oscar.

Directed by Jasmila Žbanić, the movie debuted at Venice and also screened at Toronto. It stars Jasna Djuricic and is set in the Bosnian summer of 1995 during the Serbian occupation of Srebrenica, declared to be safe zone by the United Nations. Aida works as a translator for the UN peacekeeping task force in charge of a camp where her husband and two sons are being held along with thousands of other Bosnian citizens. The pic is also nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. [cont.]

https://theintercept.com/2021/03/27/...nia-war-movie/

Oscars Face Stark Choice Over War Movie “Quo Vadis, Aida?”
Can a saga of genocide in Bosnia, directed by a woman and focusing on civilians, win an Academy Award for best international film?

A nominee for best international feature film, “Quo Vadis, Aida?” focuses not simply on the Serbs who committed mass murder in Srebrenica in 1995 or the United Nations troops who allowed it to happen, but mainly on the Bosnian civilians who were the targets. The film’s protagonist is a fictional translator for the U.N., played by the brilliant Jasna Đjuričić, who tries to save her family from the carnage that she knows is coming. Written and directed by Jasmila Žbanić, who lived in Sarajevo during its siege by Serb forces in the 1990s, “Quo Vadis, Aida?” has earned a tremendous amount of acclaim and more than a half-dozen prizes at film festivals in Europe and the U.S. [cont.]

Really hope this movie gets some kind of boutique treatment in the future. As it stands, NEON has put it on their streaming-only line, Super Ltd. so its a little slim.

Really deserves to be seen by more people. And I do think personally that it deserves the International Feature Oscar over Another Round.

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