The story of how a humble Basque rural sport called zesta punta —or jai alai— was successfully exported from the Basque Country to nations as different as Egypt, China, the Philippines, Cuba, Mexico or the United States. In these places, the pelotaris were considered true artists at the fronton. But the splendour of the jai alai, the happy feast, could not last forever.
Two men are walking. They're running away. They make their way through different landscapes in search of a more peaceful and warmer land. Like migratory birds, 'Bi txirula' is a voyage where, apart from doing everything needed to survive (find food, sleep, find shelter...), there is time to reflect on the possibility of another world.
A documentary about Basque inmigrants who went to USA looking for work and a better future. Basically, Amerikanuak talks about feeling homesick, about struggling in a different country to make a decent living and about being part of a comunity.
This documentary discovers a society marked by having suffered pain first hand and which is now faced with the task of living a life without violence.
