
Quo Vadis, Aida?

Aida is a schoolteacher who teaches English, but during the war in 1995 in Bosnia she is employed by the United Nations as a translator. When her hometown Srebrenica falls under the occupation of the Serbian army, she and her family – as well as 25000 citizens look for shelter in a UN Dutch battalion base. She is sure that the UN will protect them. However, as things starts to fall apart, she has to react and find a way to rescue her family. UN commanders – instead of aiding the people – force them to go out of the UN safe zone into the hands of Serbian army. Aida is begging them to leave her children and take her…
Data
- aka
- 11th of July
- Genre
- Drama
- Category
- Feature Film
- Financing
- Minority coproduction
- Format
- Digital Video, 100 Minuten
- Release
- 25.06.2021
- Distribution
- Filmcasino & Polyfilm Betriebs GmbH
- Admissions
- 9.297
- Funding Film Institute
- 200.000 €
- Share of Austrian production costs
- 40 %
- Share of total production costs
- 5 %
- Television investment
- 120.000 €
- Co-production
Deblokada Film (BA) (25 %), S.C. Digital Cube S.R.L. (RO) (19%), N279 Entertainment BV (NL) (12%), Razor Film Produktion GmbH (DE) (10 %), Extreme Emotions bis Sp. Z.O.O. (PL) (10%), Indie Prod SAS (FR) (10%)
- International funding
TRT MG, MG World Sales, Eurimages,
BOSNIEN: Sarajevo Film Fund, Media Programm, Kanton sarajevo, Federal Goverment – Ministry of Eductaion (BiH), Soros –Open Society, Torden Film – Sor Fund(Norway)
FRANKREICH: ACM, ZDF/Arte
NIEDERLANDE: Film Fund Netherlands, Production incentive, MG Benlux
RUMÄNIEN: CNC, Conversion Media, Avanpost in kind, Wawe maker, Mindshare Media, Mediacom
DEUTSCHLAND: ZDF/Arte, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
POLEN: Poland Film Center, Nem Corp Producer Investment- Funding program
- ÖFI
- first run on ORF2 Austrian Broadcasting Service
- 03.07.2022
- Viewers
- 163.000
- Film location
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Shooting time
- May - July 2019
- Days of shooting
- 42
- Completion
- Summer 2020
- Funding institutions Austria
- Filmfonds Wien, Land Niederösterreich
Credits
- Production
- coop 99 filmproduktion G.m.b.H.
- Producer Austria
- Barbara Albert, Antonin Svoboda, Bruno Wagner
- Director
- Jasmila Žbanić
- Script
- Jasmila Žbanić
- DOP
- Christine A. Maier
- Editor
- Jaroslaw Kaminski
- Sound engineer
- Simone Galavazi
- Sound design
- Igor Camo
- Costume design
- Malgorzata Karpiuk
- Set design
- Hannes Salat
- Music
- Antoni Kopmasa-Lazarkiewicz
- Cast
- Jasna Đuričić (Aida), Izudin Bajrović (Nihad), Boris Ler (Hamidja), Dino Bajrović (Ejo), Johan Heldenbergh (Colonel Karremans)
- German Title
- Quo Vadis, Aida?
- Television investment
- ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen)
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