Films by Hovhannes Martirosyan

2021, 56 min
by Iryna Riabenka

Eastern Ukraine, May 2014. Part of the Donbas region falls to Russia-backed separatist militants. Ukrainian journalist Stanislav Aseyev reports for various media outlets from Donetsk, his hometown. In May 2017, he is kidnapped and spends 962 days in detention, mainly in a former cultural center converted into a prison called Izolyatsia – or Isolation. There he starts writing a book describing what is happening in that secret prison being used as a concentration camp.The documentary provides an i