Quo Vadis, Aida? (2021): trivia & fun facts

Fun facts

• (Latin for 'Where are you going, Aida?') is a 2020 internationally co-produced war drama film written, produced and directed by Jasmila Žbanić, and based on Hasan Nuhanović's book Under the UN Flag.
• Serbian actress Jasna Đuričić was the first choice for the role of the protagonist.
• The film had its world premiere at the 77th Venice International Film Festival on 3 September 2020.
• In September 2020, Quo Vadis, Aida? was selected as the Bosnian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, making the shortlist of fifteen films.
• The film dramatizes the July 1995 Srebrenica massacre of over 8,300 Bosniak men and boys by the Bosnian Serb Army under the command of General Ratko Mladić (Boris Isaković) which was part of the wider Bosnian genocide in the Bosnian War.
• Jasmila Žbanić and her husband Damir Ibrahimović found the basis for the film in Under the UN Flag, a book by the Srebrenica survivor Hasan Nuhanović who worked as a translator at the UN base in Potočari.
• Đuričić's husband Boris Isaković was hesitant to accept the role of Ratko Mladić due to the Mladić's perceived heroism among Bosnian Serbs, and was subjected to pressure in Serbia after accepting it.
• Kevin Maher writes in The Times that "it's incendiary, furiously committed film-making from the director Jasmila Žbanić, who also adds an unnerving ending about the burden that Srebrenica survivors still bear."
• In December 2021, Quo Vadis, Aida? won the Award for Best Film at the 34th European Film Awards.
• Žbanić and Ibrahimović then assembled all the producers at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival and held a meeting.
• On 10 October 2020, the film had its Bosnian-Herzegovinian premiere at the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial.

Source: Wikipedia

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