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Bosnian film Quo Vadis, Aida? by director Jasmila Žbanić won the European Parliament film prize, the LUX Audience Award last week.
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“Even if
Quo Vadis, Aida? is a film about the past, I think it tells us a lot about our present, especially for my region,” Žbanić informs me, in early April, over Zoom from her home in Sarajevo. “So many things here are denied. Many people say this genocide never happened. But also, in the world, so many things are putting democracy in danger. I watched the riots in Congress in the US, and thought: this is how war in Bosnia started. There were people who didn’t agree with democratic decisions, and then, with violence, they took over certain institutions and made war.”