Izolyatsia
Director: Ihor Minaiev
Country: Ukraine
Year of production: 2024
Duration: 80 min
Subject:
  • The citizen and the state
  • Human dignity
Audience:
  • international audiences
  • Activists / NGOs

Izolyatsia is a documentary film about a factory producing insulation materials in Donetsk that, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, was transformed into a renowned contemporary art center. Following the Russian occupation of Donetsk in 2014, it was turned into one of the most notorious torture sites in the occupied territories of Ukraine.

Combining archival footage with testimonies from former prisoners, including Stanislav Aseyev, Lyudmyla Huseinova, and other witnesses, the film traces the transformation of a cultural space into a system of violence and dehumanization. The film shows how Izolyatsia became not only a site of crimes against Ukrainians, but also a symbol of the machinery of terror employed by Russia in the occupied territories.

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Ihor Minaiev
Ihor Minaiev is a Ukrainian theatre and film director and screenwriter. Born in Kharkiv in 1954, he graduated from the directing program at the Kyiv Institute of Theatre Arts named after I. Karpenko-Karyi. Since 1988, he has lived and worked in France. He is the director of both fiction and documentary films, including The Donbas – A Cacophony and Izolyatsia. His films have been screened at international film festivals, including Cannes and Berlin.
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