Atlan Films

A beautiful young gold-digger mistakes a lowly hotel clerk as a rich and therefore worthwhile catch.

Lokarri, which means in the tongue of the Basque peoples "the bond," is a story about what ties people to the land of their birth. Imanol is a 20-year-old jai alai player who is sick of the provincial town in which he has grown up, somewhere in France's Basque country. While he dreams of winning a lucrative contract with a professional jai alai team in the United States, he parties around town slowly wrecking his health and his reputation as a reliable player. When Imanol's life seems at its darkest moment, he meets two people who will change his outlook on the world. One of these is Ximista, a legendary jai alai player who went to play in the United States only to return a broken man. The other is Viviane, a Parisian sociology student who falls in love with Imanol and helps him to see the importance of his Basque heritage.

Returning to the island that her father left 50 years earlier, the filmmaker goes back in time to retrace the history of her name.

A dying man hires professional actors to impersonate his real life family ,with chaotic results, in this quirky comedy drama.