By Christopher Vourlias
QUO VADIS, AIDA? | Official UK Trailer [HD]
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Jasmila Žbanić is preparing a sequel to her harrowing war drama “Quo Vadis, Aida?”, which won Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, Variety can exclusively reveal.
Speaking at the Sarajevo Film Festival, Žbanić said the film would explore the tragic fallout from the Bosnian War of the 1990s and the brutal massacre that underpinned her critically acclaimed Oscar nomination. The film centers on a Bosnian UN translator (Jasna Đuričić) torn between family and duty in Srebrenica, where more than 8,000 civilians — mostly Muslim men and boys — were slaughtered in the worst mass murder on European soil since World War II.
While Žbanić was reticent to share details about the sequel's plot, she did discuss her inspiration for depicting the aftermath of the massacre — later deemed a genocide — as well as the fallout from the broader war, which left countless Bosnian women without husbands and sons.
