13 New Documentaries at the 2023 ASN
World Convention Documentary Festival
Films
THURSDAY
1:00 PM / ROOM 1219
THE TRIAL, PRAGUE 1952 France, 2022 (70 min.) RUTH ZYLBERMAN
The antisemitic Slansky Trial in Communist Prague – imaginary crimes, societal fears.
1:00 PM / ROOM 1201
MOTHERLAND Sweden 2023 (92 min.) ALEXANDER MIHLAKOVICH & HANNA BADZIAKA
The ravages of military bullying in authoritarian Belarus.
1:00 PM / ROOM 501B
A RISING FURY US, 2022 (82 min.) LESYA KALYNSKA & RUSLAN BATYTSKYI
A young couple on the frontlines: from Maidan to the 2022 full-scale Russian.
2:40 PM / ROOM 1201
LOOKING FOR DAYTON Bosnia 2020 (55 min.) VALERY PERRY
The impact of the peace agreement that ended the Bosnian war on the lives of ordinary men.
2:40 PM / ROOM 1219
EVACUATION Ukraine 2020 (56 min.) YEVHEN TITARENKO
The creation of the evacuation system of the wounded from the Donbas front.
5:00 PM / ROOM 1219
A HOUSE MADE OF SPLINTERS Denmark 2022 (87 min.) SIMON LERENG WILMONT
The myth and reality of Donbas in archival footage and films.
FRIDAY
11:20 AM / ROOM 1219
THE DEVIL’S CONFESSION US, Israel, 2022 (108 min.) YARIV MOZER
Not banal: Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann boasted of his crimes in taped interviews.
1:20 PM / ROOM 1219
SEEDS OF HUNGER, UKRAINE 1933 France, 2022 (68 min.) GUILLAUME RIBOT
The Holodomor as revealed to the world by the courageous Welsh journalist Gareth Jones.
1:20 PM / ROOM 1201
THE INVESTIGATOR Czechia, Croatia 2023 (74 min.) VIKTOR PORTEL
A Czech war crimes investigator of Bosnian atrocities revisits the past and witnesses.
1:20 PM / ROOM 501B
IRON BUTTERFLIES Ukraine, Germany 2023 (84 min.) ROMAN LIUBYI
The mind-numbing lies of Russian propaganda over the downing of MH17 in Donbas 2014.
3:00 PM / ROOM 1219
JUDGES UNDER PRESSURE Poland 2021 (87 min.) KACPER LISOWSKI
Democratic backsliding in Poland encounters resistance from heroic judges.
SATURDAY
10:00 AM / ROOM 1201
THE INVESTIGATOR Czechia, Croatia 2023 (74 min.) VIKROE PORTEL
A Czech war crimes investigator of Bosnian atrocities revisits the past and witnesses.
12:00 PM / ROOM 1219
A HOUSE MADE OF SPLINTERS Denmark 2022 (87 min.) SIMON LERENG WILMONT
The upended lives of orphans in Lysychansk, Donbas – harrowing and sober.
12:00 PM / ROOM 1201
THE KIEV TRIAL Netherlands, 2022 (106 min.) SERGEI LOZNITSA
The Nuremberg of the East: the 1946 Trial of German Nazis “Devastatingly Relevant Today”.
12:00 PM / ROOM 501B
THE DEVIL’S CONFESSION US, Israel, 2022 (108 min.) YARIV MOZER
Not banal: Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann boasted of his crimes in taped interviews.
1:40 PM / ROOM 1219
TINDERBOX CHINA IN THE BALKANS US, 2023 (54 min.) SAMUEL GEORGE
China pours investment money into Southeastern Europe, but at what cost?
1:40 PM / ROOM 1201
IRON BUTTERFLIES Ukraine, Germany 2023 (84 min.) ROMAN LIUBYI
The mind-numbing lies of Russian propaganda over the downing of MH17 in Donbas 2014.
4:00 PM / ROOM 1219
A RISING FURY US, 2022 (82 min.) LESYA KALYNSKA & RUSLAN BATYTSKYI
A young couple on the frontlines: from Maidan to the 2022 full-scale Russian.
4:00 PM / ROOM 1201
MOTHERLAND Sweden 2023 (92 min.) ALEXANDER MIHLAKOVICH & HANNA BADZIAKA
The ravages of military bullying in authoritarian Belarus.