BLOCK PASS

With Amaury Faucher, Sayyid El Alami

The conservative calm of a French village where motocross racing reigns as the macho sport du jour is upset when a popular teen racer is maliciously outed as gay.  Vying for a national championship, hunky blond Jojo (Faucher) is the town’s golden boy, with Willy (El Alami) his mechanic and childhood best friend basking in the glory.  Clandestine sex, lies and betrayal threaten to destroy the friendship when a jealous woman with a secret of her own enters the equation.  Cliffhanger stunts and the breathtaking speed of the film’s racing sequences mirror the perilous ups and downs of relationships made and destroyed under the judgmental eyes of a small town’s straitlaced homophobic culture.   In French with English subtitles.