QUO VADIS, AIDA? – Review by Maitland McDonagh

Bosnian filmmaker Jasmila Zbanic’s Quo Vadis, Aida? unfolds during the bitter dismantling of the former Yugoslavia, defined by brutal conflicts between the country’s Serbian, Croat and Bosnian residents who were divided on multiple fronts with religion often coming to the forefront and pitting Catholics, Muslims and Eastern Orthodox Christians against each other in the mid 1990s to horrific result.

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QUO VADIS, AIDA? (TIFF20) – Review by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

Quo Vadis, Aida? is a devastating, urgent and brilliant film about the Srebrenica genocide, immersing us deeply in a world of bureaucratic chaos where the human cost of a complete administrative failure is made explicit. Bosnian filmmaker Jasmila Žbanic treads a careful line between not shying away from the precise horrors of what happened, but not exploiting or sensationalizing them, either.

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