Dagmawi Yimer (Filmmaker)
Dagmawi Yimer was born and raised in Addis Ababa, and now lives in Verona. He left Ethiopia after the unrest surrounding the elections in 2005, in which hundreds of young people were taken to jail and killed. After a traumatic journey through the Libyan Desert and a perilous crossing across the Mediterranean in late July 2006, he landed on the island of Lampedusa. He remained in Italy and took part in a 2007 film workshop. Together with five other immigrants, he made his first film in Rome, IL DESERTO E IL MARE. Since then, he has made several other short films...
