Dawit Or Every Century Has Its Own Hideous Face
2025 - experimental.film Austria/Belgium
Writer..............Wolfgang Martin Roth
Director............Luzie Kurth
Camera..............Lars Borges
Performer...........André Kendall
Radioplay Director..Leonhard Koppelmann
Voice Actor.........Tesfai Berhane
Text Consultant.....Boris Motzki
Translator..........Karen Leeder
Project Manager.....Andrea Graf
Container Footage...Simon Graf
Producer............Wolfgang Martin Roth
Dawit or Every Century Has Its Own Hideous Face
is a poetic film that gives a voice to the silenced
Swedish-Eritrean journalist and writer Dawit Isaak, who has been held incommunicado in Eritrea since 2001,
presumably in a container, along with eleven Eritrean
colleagues. The film draws an intimate portrait of his inner world of fear, memory and hope by focusing on the exploration of the void - the perceptible space of the absent.
