Quo Vadis, Aida?

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Movie
Original title Quo Vadis, Aida?
Country of production Bosnia-Herzegovina , Germany , France , Austria , Poland , Romania , Netherlands , Norway
original language Bosnian , English , Dutch
Publishing year 2020
length 103 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 14
Rod
Director Jasmila Žbanić
script Jasmila Žbanić
production Damir Ibrahimovich , Jasmila Žbanić
music Antoni Łazarkiewicz
camera Christine A. Maier
cut Jarosław Kamiński
occupation

Quo Vadis, Aida? (also: 11th of July ) is a feature film from the year 2020 by Jasmila Zbanic . The war drama deals with the Srebrenica massacre as a theme. Production companies from eight countries, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Germany, France, Austria, Poland, Romania, the Netherlands and Norway were involved in the international co-production.

When it was released, the work received critical acclaim and numerous international awards, including three European film awards and an Oscar nomination.

plot

Aida worked as a translator for the United Nations in Srebrenica in July 1995 . After the Bosnian Serb army came to power , her family was one of the thousands of citizens who sought protection in the UN camp. In the course of the negotiations, Aida has to translate information with fatal consequences.

Production and Background

The shooting took place from May 15 to July 11, 2019, and the shooting took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina .

The film was produced by Deblokada (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Digital Cube (Romania), Extreme Emotions (Poland), Indie Prod. (France), N279 Entertainment (Netherlands), Razor Film Produktion GmbH (Germany) and the Austrian coop99 . The production was supported by the Vienna Film Fund and the Province of Lower Austria , and the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation was involved .

Malgorzata Gosia Karpiuk was responsible for the costume design, Hannes Salat was responsible for the production design, Simone Galavazi and Igor Camo for the sound and sound design and Michaela Payer for the mask.

The film recounts the days before the Srebrenica massacre . The script is loosely based on the book Under the Flag of the United Nations. The international community and the Srebrenica genocide of Hasan Nuhanović , who as a translator in the UN safe area had worked.

The film shows how Ratko Mladić can be filmed. These real recordings were partially reproduced in the film.

In the official press release on Quo Vadis, Aida? In the catalog of the Venice Film Festival, Žbanić summarized her film as follows: “This film is about a woman who is caught in the war game of men. It's about courage, love and resilience - and also about what happens if we don't react to warning signs in good time [...] ”.

publication

The premiere took place on September 3, 2020 as part of the 77th Venice International Film Festival , where the film was invited to the competition for the Golden Lion .

When the Hamburg Film Festival , the film was the beginning of October in the section 2020 Kaleidoscope shown. The Austrian premiere took place at the Viennale 2020.

The Austrian theatrical release was originally planned for February 19, 2021 and was postponed to June 25, 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic . In Germany, the film was released on August 5, 2021.

reception

Matthias Greuling wrote in the Wiener Zeitung that the difference between this film and many other war films was the perspective on the events. It is not the battles, mostly staged by men, that are central here, but rather the view of two women at the meanness of the war. This perspective leads to a more differentiated view of violence and counterviolence, of male war fantasy, of the mechanisms of genocide and cruelty.

Martin Thomson found in the Austrian daily Die Presse that Jasmila Žbanić's drama masterfully follows on from great memorial films such as Schindler's List . Although Žbanić, out of piety, did not show any dying people, it was painful to watch the well-known process of selection and deportation function perfectly. One is also shocked because one knows that the Passionsweg will end in nameless mass graves for those affected.

Stefan Grissemann said in the news magazine profil that the film is not a heavy history lesson, but a dynamic tragedy. Jasmila Žbanić manages the balancing act of turning a real tragedy into a thriller that carries you away, also because of the great leading actress Jasna Đuričić, but does not soften the bitterness of the events.

Elisabeth von Thadden wrote in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit that the first images in the film suggest that the Kantian universalistic question is being negotiated here, as to whether one's own neighbors may be morally closer to one than anyone of the human race. Again and again it becomes difficult to look while watching, even if the director largely foregoes portraying the atrocities. The film makes no moral judgment about the actors, but shows how war crimes burn themselves into the facial expressions.

Marius Ochs awarded 89 out of 100 points on filmpluskritik.com and described the film as a masterpiece that will be remembered. Without becoming moral or accusatory, the film raises questions that are hardly possible to answer. The inevitability and the horror of the events burn themselves deeply while watching, the uncomfortable feeling never disappears. Jasmila Žbanić makes the unspeakable catastrophe an intimate experience.

Lina Muzur said in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that the educational significance of the film is enormous, even if its symbolism is perhaps a bit too intrusive, and whose will to convey it may be a bit too obvious.

Nadine Lange found on Tagesspiegel.de that Aida's struggle, her despair, her helplessness and powerlessness reflected what tens of thousands of Muslim Bosnians went through in those hot July days. The film sets a cinematic memorial to them and the dead.

Awards and nominations

Quo Vadis, Aida was nominated for over 40 international film and festival awards in 2020/21, of which the work won a little more than half.

Venice International Film Festival 2020

  • Nomination for the Golden Lion ( Jasmila Žbanić )
  • Brian Award | UAAR (Unione degli Atei e degli Agnostici Razionalisti)
  • SIGNIS Award | SIGNIS International (World Catholic Association for Communication)
  • Premio UNIMED | UNIMED (Unione delle Università del Mediterraneo)

Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival 2020

  • Winner of the International Feature Film Competition

British Academy Film Awards 2021

El Gouna Film Festival 2020

  • Awarded the Golden Star for the best feature film

Independent Spirit Awards 2021

LuxFilmFest 2021

  • Awarded the Grand Prix

International Film Festival Rotterdam 2021

  • Awarded the audience award

Academy Awards 2021

Sofia International Film Festival 2021

  • Award for best Balkan film

Austrian Film Award 2021

  • Award in the category of best female supporting role (Edita Malovčić)
  • Award in the Best Cinematography category (Christine A. Maier)
  • Nomination in the Best Mask category (Michaela Payer and Regina Breitfellner)
  • Award in the category Best Production Design (Hannes Salat)

Romy Awards 2021

  • Nomination in the category Best Book Cinema (Jasmila Žbanić)
  • Award in the Best Production category (Jasmila Žbanić, coop99, Deblokada, Digital Cube, Extreme Emotions, Indie Prod., N279 Entertainment, Razor Film Produktion GmbH)
  • Nomination in the category Best Director Cinema (Jasmila Žbanić)
  • Nomination in the category Best Cinematography (Christine A. Maier)
  • Awarded the Cinema Jury Prize

German Camera Prize 2021

  • Award in the category Best Cinematography / Fiction Film (Christine A. Maier)

International Women's Film Festival Dortmund / Cologne 2021

  • Awarded the main prize

European Film Award 2021

LUX film award 2022

  • Nomination (Jasmila Žbanić)

The film was also shortlisted for the Golden Globe Awards 2021 ( Best Foreign Language Film ).

Web links

Individual evidence

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