“Two friends, Javi and Imanol, work together as a news team, covering the various changes in the political climate of the Basque country at the end of the seventies and into the eighties. As time goes on, they discuss moving into feature films, yet new developments on the political front begin to cloud their friendship and point out their deep-seated ideological differences. Finally, the events of February, 1981--the visit of Juan Carlos to Euskadi, the attempted coup of February 23--decisively alter the foundations of their relationship. Freely moving between fiction and documentary, The Reporters illustrates the difficult choices facing a new generation of Basque intellectuals and artists simultaneously filled with a new ethnic nationalism, yet aware of the difficulties for regional culture in an increasingly homogenized Europe.” Richard Peña