QUO VADIS, AÏDA?

I can’t remember the last time I awaited a release as much as I have QUO VADIS, AÏDA?— not because I hadn’t seen it (one our film execs, Jessica Switch so brilliantly suggested I watch at TIFF) but because I wanted to recommend it to everyone I know without being the asshole who says “oh, it’s not out yet.” 

QUO VADIS, AÏDA? tells the story of Aïda, a UN translator in Srebrenica during the Srebrenica massacre/genocide. While the film obviously (and beautifully) addresses identity, violence, and the politics attendant to access of information, it’s also a heart-wrenching story about family, morality, and truth. Although I sobbed through the vast majority of the movie, every time I think of it I’m reminded of the universality of storytelling and the power of art, and specifically of film, to convey humanity and elicit empathy.

—Lucy Putnam, Creative Exec