The Great European Disaster Movie is an authored documentary by Italian director Annalisa Piras and former editor of The Economist Bill Emmott, which explores the crisis facing Europe.
Through case-studies of citizens in different countries, the film explores a range of factors that have led to the present crisis, economic and identity challenges across Europe. High-level experts analyse how and why things are going so wrong.
The film includes fictional scenes, set in a post-EU future, which feature archaeologist Charles Granda, played by Angus Deayton, travelling on a flight through a menacing storm, explaining to a child passenger what the EU was.
Sombre, thought-provoking and witty, the film frames Europe through the eyes of those who have most at stake: the Europeans themselves.
The Great European Disaster Movie will be immediately followed by a special Newsnight debate at 11.20pm, which will feature a range of contributors - Bill Emmett, former editor of the Economist and one of the journalists who made the film; Peter Hitchens, columnist for Mail On Sunday; former Chancellor of the Exchequer Lord Norman Lamont; Marina Prentoulis of Syriza; Mark Reckless MP; and Sonia Sodha, associate of the think-tank Demos - who will discuss issues raised in the film.
