FILM
Cronache basche - Euskal kronikak (Basque Chronicles - Euskal kronikak)
Matteo Scanni
Italy, 2007
MiniDV PAL (Video/miniDv). 75min. Black and white / Color20:30h
Audiorio CCCBProduction: Matteo Scanni, [email protected], +39 328 478 16 95
Photography: Matteo Scanni
Editor: Matteo Scanni
Screenplay: Matteo Scanni, Angelo Miotto
Music: Urchin, Mikel Laboa, Aisha DuoSinopsis: For over half a century, the Basque Country has suffered a low-intensity civil war that has cost thousands of lives, the majority innocent victims: on one side there is Madrid and the supporters of Spanish national unity; on the other, an indomitable independence movement and Eta, the armed Basque separatist organisation. The European Union has so far avoided wading into this bloody clash for independence, preferring to deal with less diplomatically inconvenient issues. After a recent series of bombs, outrages and murders, Eta offered the Zapatero government an open-ended ceasefire to search for a peaceful solution to the conflict, raising hopes across Basque society.
Bio: Matteo Scanni (1970) is a journalist who lives and works in Milan, where he is assistant director at the Catholic University School of Journalism. He has written research papers on asbestos damage and disease, waste trafficking, industrial espionage and organised crime.
