Bosnia’s candidate for the Academy Award, the film ‘Quo Vadis, Aida?’ by Jasmila Zbanic, was awarded the Golden Star for Narrative Film at the El Gouna Film Festival in Egypt on Friday evening, while Jasna Djuricic, who plays the protagonist in the film, received an award for best actress.
‘Quo Vadis, Aida?’ recently won best international feature film at the Antalya Film Festival and was screened at the Vienna International Film Festival (Viennale), the Venice Film Festival and the Toronto Film Festival.
The plot revolves around Aida, a translator working for the UN in the protected safe zone of Srebrenica on the eve of the July 1995 genocide.