Iñaki Arteta, the director of the documentary Trece entre mil, wrote a letter to the media this week asking them to put the word out about his film, which was in danger of being pulled from cinema screens after only a week. It wasn't vanity: it was that he genuinely believes his film is important, because it basically features interviews with the families of thirteen victims of Basque terrorism, ranging from children to politicians. It is thought-provoking, highly-charged, and moving, and if you're in any position to see it, rather than say Chicken Little, over the next few days, then take the opportunity. There's a lengthy section devoted to it a this site (in Spanish).

Interviewees, some more articulate than others, include the families of Jesus Ulayar, the mayor of a small town, on the site of whose death trash cans now stand; chauffeur Francisco Maranon, now elderly and wheelchair-bound, who refers to himself as “a piece of meat with eyes” (pictured above); two widows of politicians between whom a friendship has developed since their husbands’ deaths (a rare upbeat moment); Antonio Moreno, who describes how his daughter literally fell apart in his arms as he tried to rescue her from his bombed car; and the brother of politician Ramon Baglietto, astonishingly killed by a man whom Baglietto had saved, as a baby, from being run over eighteen years before.