The annual Bicycle Movie Competition heads again to Europe this coming weekend, bringing collectively cyclists and the tradition of the bikes on display for the twenty second 12 months, again within the city biking hotspot that’s Amsterdam. Three days of chosen works of movie from all over the world inform tales of how bicycles and bicyclists form the world round them, paired with a packed program of music, rides, racing & open panel discussions…
2022 Bicycle Movie Competition in Amsterdam
From the organizer Transfer Amsterdam: “Bicycle Movie Competition has been celebrating bicycles by artwork, movie, and music for 22 years. The BFF occasions have spanned 100 cities worldwide to an viewers of a couple of million folks. Based in New York by Brendt Barbur, Bicycle Movie Competition is arriving again in Europe to the bicycle capital of the world, Amsterdam, at MOVE Amsterdam and Trip Out. Many of those had been alternatives at movie festivals and platforms resembling Sundance, Cannes, Academy Awards (Oscars), Locarno, San Sebastian movie festivals.”
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Past simply bikes on movie, BFF Amsterdam can even embody dwell music by Simone and Amedeo Tempo (of Blonde Redhead) who will carry out a dwell rating to Stars and Water Carriers, which follows Eddy Merckx & the story of the 1973 Giro d’Italia, by Danish director Jorgen Leth.
An Alleycat Race & a number of group rides are deliberate throughout the town.
Panel Discussions and Q&A periods embody subjects from filmmakers & their productions, cyclists detailing motivations & challenges, and a deal with among the outstanding ladies in biking.
Over the lengthy weekend on movie, the scheduled program consists of 50 brief and feature-length movies damaged down into 7 curated applications overlaying the breadth from the origins of mountain bike racing, to fashionable gravel racing, to the primary feminine Paris-Roubaix, to a younger Iranian feminine bicycle owner afraid of the morality police.
A choice of movies to be screened embody:
- Get Off – a younger girl in Iran buys a bicycle and is afraid of the morality police.
- Kampala Biking Couriers – government produced by 2x street & 1x TT World Champion, Anna van der Breggen
- On Falling – with DH world champ Miranda Miller, EWS medalist Andréane Lanthier Nadeau & professional rider/Winter Olympic medalist Brittany Phelan
- The Climb, a brief from Sundance that may develop into a characteristic this 12 months in Cannes
- Mbogi Amani, following the inaugural Amani Migration Gravel Race
- White Eye, 2021 Oscar Nomination for finest live-action brief
- Neon Phantom (Fantasma Neon) – the Greatest Brief Movie winner at Locarno Movie Competition and official choice at San Sebastian Movie Competition
- Una Chimba, documenting Laurens ten Dam & Peter Stetina racing the TransCordilleras bikepacking race.
Operating from December 2-4, some occasions are free, admission to the movie applications runs 15€, dwell live performance tickets price 28€, and a whole Competition Go is 50€. Full particulars and tickets can be found from host Transfer Amsterdam.
