“Quo Vadis, Aida?,” Jasmila Žbanić’s portrait of a U.N. translator trying to seek shelter during the Bosnian War’s Srebrenica massacre, is making its world premiere at Venice Film Festival today, September 3. The drama is also set to screen at TIFF later this month. It turns out that festival press for “Quo Vadis, Aida?” isn’t the only item on Žbanić’s slate. As the award-winning filmmaker told Variety, she’s currently working on several other projects as well.

Žbanić is developing a documentary about Emerik Blum, a Jewish Bosnian businessman and philanthropist. The as-yet untitled project will concentrate on the Energoinvest founder and CEO’s humanitarianism. “Until his death in 1984, Blum was a leading philanthropist in the former Yugoslavia, sponsoring thousands of students through his personal fortune and offering company housing for his employees,” the source details. Blum would also hold concerts with leading composers in his factories.

“It is amazing to see this from the perspective of today’s Bosnia and today’s economy,” said Žbanić. “Can we imagine any CEO doing that now?”

“My Women,” a narrative feature about four generations of women in Žbanić’s family “who had to overcome societal restrictions, wars, [and] patriarchy,” is also among the filmmaker’s upcoming projects. As she puts it, the film portrays “one century of the lives of women in the Balkans.”

Žbanić has an untitled TV series about the siege of Sarajevo in the works as well.

Written by Žbanić, “Quo Vadis, Aida?” is set against the backdrop of “the mass killing of some 8,000 civilians — mostly Muslim men and boys — in Srebrenica, a town that was considered a ‘safe area’ amid the wider, raging conflict of the Bosnian War in the 1990s,” per Variety. “The worst act of mass killing on European soil since World War II, the massacre was perpetrated while U.N. peacekeepers stood idly by, and was later deemed a genocide.”

With the film, Žbanić is “trying to tell the story to an imaginary audience who never heard about Srebrenica,” she explained, “constantly putting myself in a position of one who has this experience at one moment, and a position of somebody who doesn’t know anything about it and sees it for the first time in the next.” She is also exploring the particular effects war has on women via her protagonist, Aida. “For me a war is a stage for the performance of sociopaths and psychopaths — they function perfectly there while others are lost and suffering,” Žbanić observed. “[The] heroism of women is not the heroism of men.”

The filmmaker added, “The film shows what can happen if we don’t have solidarity, empathy, and what happens when our institutions who are supposed to serve and protect society are ruined. Not only the U.N., but all institutions that our civilizations build for the good of a democratic society: from the health care system to the postal service.”

Žbanić won the Berlinale’s Golden Bear for her first feature, “Grbavica: Land of my Dreams.” The story of a mother and daughter trying to survive in war-torn Sarajevo also received AFI Fest’s Grand Jury Prize and picked up two European Film Award nominations.

“Jedan dan u Sarajevu,” “Love Island,” “For Those Who Can Tell No Tales,” and “On the Path” are among Žbanić’s other credits.