Bosnian film ‘Quo Vadis, Aida?’ wins European Parliament’s film award

Bosnian movie “Quo Vadis, Aida?” has gained the European Parliament’s movie prize, after keeping off competitors from two different nominees. 

The LUX European Viewers Movie Award 2022 was offered to 47-year-old Bosnian director Jasmina Zbanic, who continues to choose up prizes for what critics have referred to as a searing account of the devastating human toll of warfare.

The movie dramatises occasions of the Srebrenica bloodbath, throughout which Serbian troops despatched Bosniak males and boys to loss of life in July 1995. Named after its protagonist, “Quo Vadis, Aida?” reveals occasions via the eyes of a mom named Aida, a schoolteacher who works with the United Nations as a translator.

The award winner, who was accompanied by a Srebrenica survivor on the European Parliament in Strasbourg, informed Euronews that she sees parallels with at the moment’s warfare in Ukraine.

“For me, it is actually unhappy that we as Europeans did not be taught something from the Balkan Wars. We did not learn to speak earlier than warfare occurs. Now it is insanity of warfare,” Zbanic mentioned on Wednesday.

“However there have been indicators that warfare was ready, and we did not take a look at these indicators and we did not discover a manner to not have warfare in Europe. For me, that is actually, actually unhappy. It makes me very unhappy that persons are dying once we are speaking about it.”

The ending of “Quo Vadis, Aida?” is ambiguous – it makes clear that many perpetrators escaped with impunity.

It has additionally been universally acclaimed by critics and acquired a number of awards, in addition to being nominated for the Golden Lion on the Venice Movie Pageant in 2020 and the Academy Awards a 12 months later.

The 2 different nominees have been “Flee” by Danish director Jonas Poher Rasmussen and “Nice Freedom” by Austrian film maker Sebastian Meise.