PIIGS

PIIGS

PIIGS

English:
NARRATED BY WILLEM DAFOE
PIIGS is a documentary that challenges prevalent European budgetary policies and the austerity dogma. It does so by bringing in lesser-known facts and evidence that have the effect of ridiculing prevalent European monetary policies and dominant political certainties.
Did you know that the famous god-like Stability and Growth Pact with its 3% deficit limit and theories about critical government debt levels are based on purely invented figures and typing errors in Excel spreadsheet? However, austerity policies keep on dividing the continent into winners and loosers, creating great amount of suffering, particularly in so-called crisis countries. Consequently, the whole European project has become in doubt.
PIIGS is a Southern European take into austerity dogma and states with the voice of prestigious international economists, intellectuals and experts, that the origin of the European debt crisis is not the inadequacy of people in crisis countries but the very foundation of euro itself. Unfortunately people are not immune to bad decision making, and the documentary shows how austerity turns into practice in Rome, focusing on a survival story of a cooperative assisting disabled people.
The documentary features Noam Chomsky, Stephanie Kelton (Chief Economist for US Senate Budget Committee), Warren Mosler (post-Keynesian economist), Paul De Grauwe (Professor London School of Economics), Yanis Varoufakis (ex Greek Minister of Finance), Marshall Auerback (Research associate, Levy Economics Institute), Erri De Luca (Italian novelist) and Federico Rampini (Italian journalist) among others.

Italiano:
PIIGS è un film a metà strada tra Inside Job (documentario del 2010 sulla crisi finanziaria USA) e le storie proletarie di Ken Loach.
È un viaggio affascinante e rivoluzionario nel cuore della tragica crisi economica europea. Realizzato da tre filmmaker dopo cinque anni di ricerche e due di riprese, PIIGS è un’immersione senza precedenti e senza censure nei dogmi dell’austerity e afferma con la voce di prestigiosi economisti, intellettuali ed esperti internazionali che l’origine della crisi dei debiti europei non risiede nell’inadeguatezza delle popolazioni dei Paesi in crisi ma nelle fondamenta stesse dell’euro.
Il documentario racconta anche le dirette conseguenze dell’austerity a Roma, concentrandosi sulla storia della sopravvivenza di una Cooperativa sociale che assiste disabili e persone svantaggiate.
Dintorni di Roma, oggi. Claudia sta provando a salvare la Cooperativa “Il Pungiglione” dal fallimento. “Il Pungiglione” ha un credito di un milione di euro dal comune e dalla regione e rischia di chiudere per sempre: 100 dipendenti perderanno il lavoro e 150 disabili rimarranno senza assistenza. È una bomba sociale a orologeria.
È vero che nell’Eurozona non c’è alternativa all’austerity, al Fiscal Compact, al pareggio di bilancio, ai tagli alla spesa sociale? Al fallimento del “Pungiglione”?

Genre: Business, Documentary

Duration: 52/70mins

Languages: English, Italian

Rights: Inflight & Transportation – Worldwide

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