Danis Tanovic

Wartime Tragedy and COVID-Era Comedy at Sarajevo Film Fest

Director Jasmila Zbanic's Oscar-nominated 'Quo Vadis, Aida?', about a Bosnian translator for the United Nations trying to save her family amid the violence and chaos of the Srebrenica genocide, is one of several films focusing on armed conflict that will be screened at the 27th Sarajevo Film Festival, which opens on Friday.

Bosnia Earthquake Kills Four Illegal Miners

Four young men who were illegally collecting coal in a surface mine near the northern industrial town of Tuzla were killed in a freak accident over the weekend, after being buried by a landslide triggered by a small earthquake.

The accident took place around midnight on Saturday, when northern Bosnia was hit by a minor earthquake with a magnitude of 3.3 on the Richter scale.