Tailwhip

The dusty Mexican border town of El Centro serves as the backdrop for a 13-year-old BMX rider named Erik and the hero who fuels his passion. In this visceral and tactile film, we experience the world as a messy heap of impressions and obstacles, including emotional and physical challenges begging to be overcome by the right recipe of grit and determination. There is a fierceness, a rawness to the imagery that puts us in the mind of the child from the small, sweltering town. Erik doesn’t know much about the outside world at his young age, but in the glowing light of his father’s support and admiration, that hasn’t stopped him from dreaming big. For Erik and his father, and every kid riding the streets of El Centro, this is the prequel to a story of triumph over adversity, of hope blooming in an unlikely place. (Camerimage)