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SARAJEVO, March 15 (FENA) - Bosnia and Herzegovina's film "Quo Vadis, Aida?” directed by Jasmila Žbanić was nominated for the prestigious Academy Award in the category Best International Feature Film among five achievements.
Jasmila Žbanić's film was shortlisted among 15 countries for the American Film Academy Award out of 93 candidates.
"Quo Vadis, Aida?" premiered in September last year and has since received several awards around the world. It has been awarded in Luxembourg, Valencia, Rotterdam, Gothenburg, Jerusalem, London, Egypt ... The film was recently nominated for two BAFTA Awards in the categories of Best Director and Best Non-English Film.
The most prominent film critics wrote about the film that talks about the greatest crime, the genocide committed during the last war in Srebrenica.
"Quo Vadis, Aida?": Life and Death in Srebrenica" is the title of a review published by the New York Times, signed by film critic A.O. Scott. As it says in the review, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Oscar entry is the harrowing and rigorous story of a U.N. translator’s fight to save her family from slaughter.
"In July 1995, the Bosnian Serb army, under the command of General Ratko Mladić, overran the town of Srebrenica, which had been declared a safe haven by the United Nations. Muslim civilians sought refuge at a nearby U.N. base but were handed over to Mladić’s soldiers, who separated them by gender and loaded them into buses and trucks. Around 8,000 men and boys were murdered, their bodies buried in mass graves, in one of the worst atrocities of the wars that convulsed the former Yugoslavia for much of the decade. At the time, many in the West wondered how this could happen — how genocidal violence could erupt in Europe barely 50 years after the end of World War II. "Quo Vadis, Aida?," Jasmila Žbanić’s unsparing and astonishing new film, shows precisely how. This isn’t the same as explaining why, though Žbanić’s granular, hour-by-hour, lightly fictionalized dramatization of the events leading up to the massacre sheds some glancing light on that question," wrote Scott.
The roles in the film are played by Jasna Đuričić as Aida Selmanagić, Izudin Bajrović, Boris Isaković, Johan Heldenbergh, Boris Ler, Dino Bajrović, Emir Hadžihafizbegović, Edita Malovčić, Minka Muftić, Teun Luijkx, Ermin Bravo, Ermin Sijamija, Alban Ukaj and others.
It has been 20 years since BiH director Danis Tanović won the Oscar for "No Man's Land".
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