A Bosnian UN translator is torn between duty and family as events tailspin toward genocide in Jasmila Zbanic's tough, compelling drama. Perhaps the most difficult task faced by any filmmaker ...
From left, soprano Rebecca Hardwick, contralto Jess Dandy, tenor James Oxley, and bass Alex Ashworth Dyson, by ironic contrast, was palpably and embarrassingly ...
The nightmarish cruelty of the Bosnian Serbs’ genocidal assault on the Bosnian Muslim town of Srebrenica in July, 1995 is vividly and nightmarishly rendered in the curiously titled Quo Vadis, Aida?
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 ...
When I first heard that there would be an adaptation of Quo Vadis, a historical novel written by Henryk Sienkiewicz 130 years ago about the first Christians in Rome, I thought it was a pretty crazy ...
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 ...