Virtual Film Panel Discussion
Film : Quo Vadis Aida?
Thursday, July 15, 1:00 PM Central Time
2021 Oscar nominee for Best International Feature Film, Quo Vadis Aida?, recounts and dramatizes the legacy of one of the worst mass murders in European history since the Holocaust: the 1995 Srebrenica Genocide. More than 8,000 Bosniak Muslims were murdered by the Bosnian Serb Army of Republika Srpska. Through the eyes of Aida Selmanagic, a translator working at a United Nations base just outside Srebrenica, the film shines a brutally intense light on the toll that suffering, terror, and fighting in Bosnia takes on humanity.
Ida Sefer, President of the Bosnian-American Genocide Institute and Education Center (BAGI), will moderate a discussion centered around several key themes of the film: the international failure that was depicted in the film, efforts at historical revisionism that whitewash or minimize the role of various actors, ongoing genocide in the country, and acknowledging courage and resolve of the survivors, among other topics.
Panelists will include Emir Suljagić, Director of the Srebrenica Memorial Center; Dr. David Pettigrew, Professor of Philosophy, Southern Connecticut State University; Nihad Brankovic, Government Relations Coordinator, Western Balkans Program, International Commission on Missing Persons ; and Hasan Hasanović, Srebrenica genocide survivor, curator, and interpreter at the Srebrenica Memorial Center.
A link to stream Quo Vadis Aida? will be available to program registrants from July 5 until the day of the program.
Community Partners: BAGI; Educators Institute for Human Rights; Congress of Bosniaks of North America; Center for Bosnian Studies at Fontbonne University
Free to the public
Reservations required