10/10
interpretation in desperate moments
14 April 2021
As an interpreter, I took a special interest in Jasmila Zbanic's Academy Award-nominated "Quo vadis, Aida?". The protagonist is an interpreter in Srebrenica during the 1995 siege. In the process of interpreting between the townspeople and peacekeeping forces, she gains some important information.

The movie serves as a look at the horrors of that siege, but also the decisions that interpreters must make in desperate moments. My field of interpretation has never seen anything as severe as what the movie depicts. Nevertheless, it's an important focus on the sheer terror of the situation in 1990s Bosnia (although I doubt that any movie can fully show the horror of it).

Definitely see it.
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