Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Other winners that had already achieved Oscar recognition included Florian Zeller’s The Father which repeated with wins for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Quo Vadis, Aida?” took home the top prize at the European Film Awards on Saturday evening. Directed by Jasmila Žbanić, the film ...

Jasmila Žbanić’s war drama about the 1995 genocide in Srebrenica also picked up this year's critics prize. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief The Balkan war drama Quo Vadis, Aida? by director ...

Bosnian-born director Jasmila Zbanic, who survived the 1995 war in Sarajevo, wanted to make a film that exposes the bureaucracy of war from a female lens. Zbanic’s film, “Quo Vadis Aida,” centers on ...

One of the biggest questions a filmmaker has to face before depicting a real-life event is the question of perspective: whose perspective will be shown? An actor? A participant? The leaders or the ...

When a violent ethnic conflict broke out in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992, the writer-director Jasmila Zbanic was a teenager in Sarajevo, where she would spend the next three years living under siege ...

Bosnian filmmaker Jasmila Žbanić, whose latest feature, “Quo Vadis, Aida?,” world premieres Sept. 3 in competition at the Venice Film Festival and also screens at Toronto in the Contemporary World ...