Calendar   |   Packages  |   My Account  |   Shopping Cart
Cannot access this performance because it occurred in the past: 10/26/21, 7:00 PM.
The selected performance is NOT available for sale.
Please Select Tickets
You have selected:
Global Film: Quo Vadis, Aida?
Directed by Jasmila Zbanic
Tuesday, October 26, 2021 at 7:00PM

Carling-Sorenson Theater
231 Forest Street
Wellesley, MA 02481
Sorenson Center for the Arts

Registration is required. This event is FREE and open to the public, subject to change based on college protocols and health guidance.

Quo Vadis, Aida? is set in Bosnia in 1995. Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp. As an insider to the negotiations, Aida has access to crucial information that could help save her husband and sons, as well as her neighbors and friends. What awaits her family and people - rescue or death? Which move should she make? Quo Vadis, Aida? uses one woman's heartbreaking situation to offer a searing account of war's devastating human toll. Although it addresses a specific time, place, and conflict, this unforgettable, profoundly moving story offers a timeless commentary on the ways in which geopolitical events affect individual lives. Run time: 131 minutes

A post-film discussion will be held virtually following the screening and will be led by Dijana Jelaca and the Global Film series curators, Prof. Julie Levinson and Prof. Jenny Rademacher. Dijana Jelaca teaches film courses at Brooklyn College and is programming director of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival in New York. She is the author of Dislocated Screen Memory: Narrating Trauma in Post-Yugoslav Cinema and co-author of Film Feminisms: A Global Introduction. Her research interests include transnational feminist film studies, women's film history, and South Slavic film cultures.

Co-presented by the Global Film Series and the Arts and Humanities Division.