• Feature Film
  • Drama

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

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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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