The film by Bosnian director Jasmila Zbanic, 'Quo Vadis, Aida?', which was officially nominated for the Oscar this year, is an exceptional work for presenting the truth about what happened in Srebrenica, human right activist Sonja Biserko told N1.

Biserko, who is the Chairperson of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights of Serbia, stressed that this film created “an important dimension” and told a story of all women of Srebrenica who “played a crucial role.”

“This film proved that a film can be an important promotor of truth about Srebrenica, generally about Bosnia. It was created in a sophisticated way and it conveyed an anti-war message and, as someone said, it outgrew the evil,” said Biserko, speaking to N1's Nikola Vucic.

“It is an educative and humane story which will reach the many. And it is important that today, 25 years after the genocide in Srebrenica and the Dayton Peace Agreement, it will bring back on agenda what had happened there and how to make a fresh approach to Bosnia and make Bosnia a functional state,” she concluded.

Screening the film about the Srebrenica genocide outside Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the whole region, is one of the ways of realising what had happened, according to her.

“It is important to make the Serb side acquainted with that message. That this is an anti-war film and I think this is a better way for young generations who were not even born then to learn what had happened there,” said Biserko.

‘Quo Vadis, Aida?’, the film telling a story about the Srebrenica genocide through the life of a woman named Aida – translator working with UN, was officially nominated for the Oscar in the Best International Feature Film, alongside other four foreign films.

It premiered last year at the 77th Venice Film Festival and received acclaim at several major festivals, also being nominated for the BAFTA award.