portrays the events through the eyes of a mother named Aida, a schoolteacher who works with the United Nations as a translator.

After three and a half years under siege, the town of Srebrenica, located in northeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina close to Serbian border, was declared a UN safety zone in 1993 and put under the protection of a Dutch battalion working for the UN.

After much protesting she uses her association with a senior UN officer, and the need for a local to act as a representative to talk with Serbian military to gain entry for her family.

Mladić is seen at various points inspecting Srebrenica, filming his actions as propaganda including telling Bosniak civilians that he has forgiven them and is sparing their lives by sending them away.

Despite believing she has an understanding with Major Franken who promised they could stay, Aida's family are not on the list of authorised civilians and they are escorted under armed guard to trucks that take them off base as she watches.

"[13] According to Metacritic, the film received "universal acclaim" based on a weighted average score of 97 out of 100 from 16 critic reviews.

[15] Ryan Gilbey of New Statesman stated "Žbanić has shaped the factual into an eloquent and conscientious picture that purrs along as suspensefully as any ticking-bomb thriller, using Ðuričić's performance as its engine.

works to un-revise history, re-centering the victims’ plight as the eye of a storm of evils—not only the massacre itself, but the broader evils of institutional failure and international indifference.

"[19] Kevin Maher writes in The Times that "it's incendiary, furiously committed film-making from the director Jasmila Žbanić, who also adds an unnerving ending about the burden that Srebrenica survivors still bear.

"The war ended, and some version of normalcy returned, but Žbanić takes no consolation in the banal observation that life goes on.