Jasmila Žbanić had long thought that a film should be made about the 1995 Srebrenica Massacre —the genocide of more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys by Serbian armed forces that took place in her home country of Bosnia while under the supposed protection of the United Nations.
She had hoped that she wouldn’t be the one behind the camera, but 20 years on from the shocking tragedy, no film had emerged. “So I talked with my crew, with my producers and my friends,” she explains in a special THR Presents Q&A powered by Vision Media. “And we thought, ok, nobody’s making this film.
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