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Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #127. Quo Vadis, Aida? – Jasmila Žbanić

Imrana Kapetanovic

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #127. Quo Vadis, Aida? – Jasmila Žbanić

Published on December 30, 2019

Quo Vadis, Aida?

Bosnia’s Jasmila Žbanić should be on hand in 2020 with her fifth feature, Quo Vadis, Aida?, a co-production between Romania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Austria, Norway, Netherlands, Poland, Germany and France. Her cast features Jasna Djuricic, Izudin Bajrovic, Boris Ler, Dino Bajrovic, Johan Heldenbergh and the title is lensed by Christine Maier (Zbanic’s Love Island, 2014). Zbanic competed in Berlin (as well as Sundance) with 2006’s Esma’s Secret – Grbavica (which the Ecumenical Jury Prize) and again in 2010 with On the Path. In 2013, she competed in San Sebastian with For Those Who Can Tell No Tales and premiered her box office hit Love Island in Locarno.

Gist: Aida is an English teacher who lives on a UN based with her husband and two children, where they sought shelter after the Serbian army occupied Srebrenica. But as alliances seem to erode, perhaps Aida and her family aren’t as safe as they thought.

Release Date/Prediction: Filmed in Bosnia & Herzegovina from May to July 2019, Zbanic could potentially compete a third time in Berlin.

Nicholas Bell

Los Angeles based Nicholas Bell is IONCINEMA.com's Chief Film Critic and covers film festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Cannes and TIFF. He is part of the critic groups on Rotten Tomatoes, The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) and GALECA. His top 3 for 2021: France (Bruno Dumont), Passing (Rebecca Hall) and Nightmare Alley (Guillermo Del Toro). He was a jury member at the 2019 Cleveland International Film Festival.