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Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Romania · 2021
1h 41m
Director Jasmila Žbanić
Starring Jasna Đuričić, Izudin Bajrović, Boris Ler, Dino Bajrović
Genre Drama, War
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Aida is a translator for the United Nations returning home to Bosnia at the height of the 1995 War with Serbia. She wants to help her family, who are among thousands looking for shelter at a UN camp. As the UN struggles to help the suffering people of the town of Srebrenica, Aida grows frustrated at the bureaucracy and confusion.
RogerEbert.com by Brian Tallerico
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.
CineVue by Christopher Machell
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.
This study in chaos and calculation not only makes for harrowingly compelling viewing, but it also exposes the apathy of an international community that simply turned the other way.
The Hollywood Reporter by Deborah Young
The subject is horrifying but the screen is hard to look away from, as the situation becomes a powder keg of tension.
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.
In Quo Vaids, Aida?, Žbanic lays bare the deeply human toll of violence and war.
Los Angeles Times by Justin Chang
Quo Vadis, Aida? re-creates history in the present tense, with a gut-clutching immediacy that Žbanić makes bearable through sheer formal restraint.
The energy and passion of Zbanic’s fresh, new, direct gaze at the conflict comes through in every frame.
The Observer (UK) by Mark Kermode
Like the unblinking closeup that concludes the deeply moving (and ultimately redemptive?) epilogue to Quo Vadis, Aida?, Žbanić’s powerful and personal film keeps its eyes wide open.
The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
There’s a real tragic power in this almost unbearably brutal and shocking movie from writer-director Jasmila Žbanić.
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