application/pdf 845942 bytes Representing Trauma - Writing the Past Into the Present Through Films https://phaidrabg.bg.ac.rs/o:30612 doi:DOI: 10.25626/0136 2022 Herder-Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung – Institut der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft Serbien; Konzentrationslager Jasenovac; Massaker von Srebrenica; Kollektives Gedächtnis; Historischer Film Daković, Nevena eng All rights reserved Cultures of History Forum info:eu-repo/semantics/article Cinematic attempts to tell the story of historical mass violence and trauma in former Yugoslavia are often steeped in political controversy. The article discusses two recent films – ‘Dara of Jasenovac’ (Serbia, 2020) and ‘Quo vadis, Aida?’ (Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2020) – and the public reactions to them. While both films share certain features such as looking at historical horrors and inter-ethnic violence from a female perspective, they differ remarkably in style as well as in how they were received in Serbia and beyond.