Mishel Koçiu

Superbly executed, “Quo Vadis, Aida?” is an absolute masterpiece! This new film about the Srebrenica massacre portrays the horrific war crimes and the UN's shameful reluctance to prevent a horrific massacre. Srebrenica massacre, slaying of more than 8,000 Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) boys and men, perpetrated by Bosnian Serb forces in Srebrenica in July 1995, was the first act of genocide in Europe since the Holocaust. It was also the first genocide to occur in an area officially declared a safe zone by the United Nations. Besides being a very specific story of the 1995 war crimes, the film is a scathing critique of the shameful helplessness of United Nations peacekeepers and a modern commentary how, through the United Nations, the world itself was humiliated and a significant part of the faith in humanism and our common humanity perished in Srebrenica. Jasmila Zbanic's gaze is placed slightly next to that of History, opening up a narrative angle in the light of what we now know, where the intensity of the fiction illuminates a horrifying episode of a very close history, in time and in space. Four years later than the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, on March 24, 1999, NATO launched airstrikes against Serbian military targets to end the massacres and atrocities in Kosovo. The world has woken up not to let history repeat itself in a second act of genocidal tragedy in the Balkans. To better understand the necessity and the urgency of this intervention made 22 years ago, you have to watch the film "Quo Vadis, Aida?". It's a must!!