Bosnian filmmaker Jasmila Žbanić is partnering with a number of of Europe’s hottest indie manufacturing labels for the sequel to her Academy Award-nominated “Quo Vadis, Aida?,” which the director is pitching Might 18 on the Cannes Consumers Circle.
“Quo Vadis, Aida? – The Missing Half” is a world co-production led by Deblokada (Bosnia and Herzegovina), in co-production with Indie Prod (France), NGF Geyrhalterfilm (Austria), Topkapi Films (Netherlands), Madants (Poland), Razor Film (Germany), Plattform Produktion (Sweden) and Good Chaos (U.Okay.). Indie Product sales has moreover come onboard as a result of the worldwide product sales agent.
The sooner film, which competed for best worldwide attribute on the 2021 Oscars, adopted a Bosnian UN translator, Aida (Jasna Đuričić), torn between family and obligation in Srebrenica, the place better than 8,000 civilians — principally Muslim males and boys — had been slaughtered throughout the worst act of mass killing on European soil since World Warfare II.
The sequel finds Aida, as soon as extra carried out by Đuričić, on a peacetime journey to search out the fates of her husband and sons. Turning into a member of with completely different women who arrange protests and conduct their very personal personal investigations searching for reality and justice, they overcome corruption, political inertia and completely different obstacles whereas recognizing that the peace course of is “harder than the battle itself,” in response to Žbanić.
After a riveting premiere on the Venice Film Competitors in 2020, the place Choice’s Jessica Kiang praised the “deeply compelling, harrowing and heartbreaking” film as a “necessary retelling of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre,” “Quo Vadis, Aida?” went on to scoop better than 50 worldwide awards, along with Biggest European Film, Biggest European Director and Biggest European Actress (Đuričić) on the European Film Awards.
“The Missing Half” picks up six months after that film left off, allowing Žbanić to answer “loads of questions regarding the look for the missing people, the return to Srebrenica and the post-war state of affairs” that audiences had throughout the wake of the first attribute.
“The [original] script for the film ‘Quo Vadis, Aida?’ featured a giant part depicting the complexity of peace following the genocide in Srebrenica,” the director knowledgeable Choice. “I decided that it may be unimaginable to position each half in a single film and chosen to take care of peace (non-warfare) solely briefly throughout the epilogue. This proved to be an outstanding decision, as people resonated with the film on a very emotional diploma.
“The viewers’s curiosity and my very personal need to inform this untold story regarding the battle of women from Srebrenica for reality and justice led me to find out on a sequel,” she continued. “[The title] primarily refers to Aida’s sons, who’re a missing part of her — along with to the first film, on account of it reveals what was not provided, detailing events that occurred sooner than the epilogue and Aida’s entry into Srebrenica.”
“Quo Vadis, Aida? – The Missing Half” is supported by key European film funds along with the Austrian Film Institute, Filmfonds Wien, the Polish Film Institute, the Swedish Film Institute, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Film i Väst, CNC – Aide aux cinémas du monde and the Ministry of Custom and Sports activities actions – Canton of Sarajevo. Broadcast companions embrace ARTE/ZDF, ORF and TRT.
Žbanić is making an attempt to close financing in Cannes, with plans to start out out principal photos in Feb. 2026. Alongside Đuričić, confirmed cast embrace Jasna Žalica (“Mother Mara”), Jelena Kordić Kuret (“I Know Your Soul”) and French actor Arieh Worthalter (“The Goldman Case”).
