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Jai Alai Blues
2016 · Film · documentary · 100 min
Directed by Gorka Bilbao
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.
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Jai Alai Blues, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMddUtwmfMI
>Synopsis: A documentary narrating the incredible story of the Jai Alai through its most iconic characters. A great many similarities can be drawn between the biography of our characters and the actual history of the Jai Alai. Beginnings in humble surroundings, huge successes all over the world in pelota courts packed to the hilt with distinguish publics, losses of identity due to adapting a traditional game to societies with completely different values...
* Complete documentary in original language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDX_xn-x7mU