The Oscar category of Best International Feature should be taken literally given the financing and five-year process it took to get it for Bosnia and Herzegovina nominee Quo Vadis, Aida?
A consortium on nine countries jumped on board to make the most expensive film yet to come out of Bosnia, but it was well worth the effort as writer-director Jasmila Zbanic explained during Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees virtual event.“It was a very long journey but luckily the European system allowed us to collect all the money needed,” she said, noting Bosnia itself could only contribute a small percentage of what was needed to tell this fictionalized tale of a woman’s fight to save her family during the true events of the 1995 genocide in a
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