Jasmila Žbanic’s Quo Vadis, Aida?, a harrowing drama about the 1995 Bosnian genocide, is one of the best films of TIFF 2020. Find out why…
Balkan Cinema
Sanja Zivkovic on Easy Land, immigration, and mental illness
Sanja Zivkovic on depicting mental illness on screen, how she directed her two talented lead actresses, and crafting the aesthetics of Easy Land.
The Stone Speakers raises questions about selective presentations of history
Brett Pardy reviews Igor Drljača’s documentary The Stone Speakers, which questions what selective presentations of history for tourist consumption mean for the country’s current identity.
‘What I really wanted to know was: ‘Why did we stay?’’: Mila Turajlic on the trauma of ex-Yugoslavia in The Other Side of Everything
In Mila Turajlic’s doc The Other Side of Everything, a Serbian apartment divided under communism is a symbol of a difficult past lingering in the present.