Movie #2151 "Quo Vadis, Aida" (amazon prime, $2.99) This was the one I would have voted for --- it kept me interested through the whole time. It centered on a translator in Srebrenica and the genocide that happened there in a UN camp. There are shots I will never forget in this film. Here are two examples: 1) the translator finds out her family may be in danger, so she goes out to the area where the crowds of civilians are gathering, and she stands up on top of a roof of a building to see if she can find her family and there's a crane shot of the thousands and thousands all gathered there (comparable to a famous shot in GWTW of the wounded soldiers in Atlanta --- to show the extent of the Civil War), 2) another shot is at the end, where we see the women in this town trying to identify their male family members from bones on a sheet and the shoes they might have worn. These moments will never leave me --- very effective film, and I would give it 4.8. I just wish the ending would have been more final, but maybe that was the whole idea --- it never will be final --- there will always be genocide until we can work together to put a stop to it.
"QUO VADIS, AIDA" 2021 Serbian subtitles 1 hr, 44 mins Bosnia, 1995
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