Synopsis
Bosnia, July 1995. Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp. As an insider to the negotiations Aida has access to crucial information that she needs to interpret. What is at the horizon for her family and people – rescue or death? Which move should she take?
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Cast
- Jasna ĐuričićAida Selmanagic
- Izudin BajrovićNihad
- Boris LerHamdija
- Dino BajrovićSejo
- Johan HeldenberghColonel Karremans
- Raymond ThirySergeant-major Franken
- Boris IsakovićGeneral Ratko Mladić
- Emir HadžihafizbegovićJoka
- Reinout BussemakerColonel doctor Robben
- Teun LuijkxCaptain Mintjes
Recommendations
- 100
CineVue
As a fictionalised account of what was once described as the worst European genocide in the post-war period, Quo Vadis, Aida? is wrenching and vital in its bitter grief. As a study of political and diplomatic inertia in the face of contemporary global human tragedies, it could not be more urgent. - 100
The Guardian
There’s a real tragic power in this almost unbearably brutal and shocking movie from writer-director Jasmila Žbanić. - 100
Variety
This is not historical revisionism, if anything, Quo Vadis, Aida? works to un-revise history, re-centering the victims’ plight as the eye of a storm of evils — not only the massacre itself, but the broader evils of institutional failure and international indifference. - 100
Los Angeles Times
Quo Vadis, Aida? re-creates history in the present tense, with a gut-clutching immediacy that Žbanić makes bearable through sheer formal restraint. - 91
IndieWire
In Quo Vaids, Aida?, Žbanic lays bare the deeply human toll of violence and war. - 90
The Hollywood Reporter
The subject is horrifying but the screen is hard to look away from, as the situation becomes a powder keg of tension. - 90
Screen Daily
The energy and passion of Zbanic’s fresh, new, direct gaze at the conflict comes through in every frame. - 88
RogerEbert.com
Jasmila Zbanic’s Quo Vadis, Aida? is a razor-sharp incrimination of failed foreign policies from around the world embedded in a deeply humanist and moving character study of the kind of person that these policies leave behind.
