by
Andrea Segre, Riccardo Biadene, Dagmawi Yimer
Starring Dagmawi Yimer /
Written by Andrea Segre, Riccardo Biadene, Dagmawi Yimer /
Cinematography Andrea Segre /
Editing Luca Manes /
Produced by ZaLab (Italy), Asinitas (Italy), Andrea Segre, Marco Carsetti, Sandro Triulzi
Italy, 2008 – 74′
O. V.
Director Andrea Segre will be present
MOVIE CATEGORY
FOCUS
Andrea Segre
30.11.25
18:00
Cinema De Seta
Dag studied law in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The intense political repression he faced in his country forced him to emigrate, crossing the desert between Sudan and Libya in the winter of 2005. In Libya, he was a survivor of smugglers’ violence and torture by the Libyan police. Finally in Rome, Dag attended “Marco’s school,” a meeting point and place of rebirth for many African immigrants. Here, he was able to come to terms with the psychological effects of that journey, trying to break the silence about the atrocities in the country under Colonel Gaddafi’s rule.
A journey of pain and dignity, one of Andrea Segre’s first works (co-directed by the protagonist, Dagmawi Yimer) and a precious firsthand account of how Libya, on behalf of and thanks to funding from Italy and Europe, controls migration flows from Africa. Dag’s face reflects a hidden, ignored history, for which Italy and Europe bear direct responsibility.
DIRECTORY
Andrea Segre, italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1976), PhD in Sociology. Five features — Io sono Li, La prima neve, L’ordine delle cose, Welcome Venice, Berlinguer – La grande ambizione — and numerous documentaries (Mare chiuso, Molecole, Trieste è bella di notte, Noi e La grande ambizione). Works screened at Venice, Locarno, Beijing, and Open Roads. Author of Fuori Rotta, Scritti Mediterranei, and the novel La Terra Scivola. Co-founder of ZaLab (2006).
Riccardo Biadene, originally from Venice, graduated in Philosophy from Bologna. He gained experience in publishing and journalism before turning to film direction and production. In addition to his collaboration with Andrea Segre on Like a Man on Earth (2008) his filmography also includes titles such as Marino Mazzacurati – Artigiano della storia (2010) and Alain Danièlou – Il labirinto di una vita (presented at Biografilm in 2017).
Dagmawi Yimer, a political refugee in Italy, attended the Asinitas association’s video-narration course in 2007, co-authoring the documentary The Desert and the Sea. He works in linguistic and cultural mediation and has collaborated with the Archive of Migrant Memories since 2010.
