Bicycle Film Festival is back in NYC at Cinema Village on Saturday December 14th, 2024. This year’s slate of all new curated short films feature some folks you may recognize! Check out the trailer below and the list of films on the 2024 BFF New York program.

Bicycle Film Festival has been celebrating bicycles through art, film, and music over the last 24 years. The BFF has spanned the world in 100 cities worldwide to an audience of one million people.

This year, BFF New York presents an international short film program with award-winning and emerging new talent. For lovers of pro cycling, gravel biking, mountain biking, youth culture, and more - this program will take you on a journey with passionate cyclists around the world.

This year’s festival features stories about:

• A whimsical bike packing adventure that follows four quirky characters across the Balkans

• New York City food delivery workers coming together to recover their stolen e-bikes, and organize to contend with the lack of response from the police and government when they request help and protection.

• A trans-masculine cyclist, Izzy Sederbaum navigates aftermath of surviving a rare cougar attack

• One of the greatest downhill racers of all time, Greg Minnaar’s bad crash was frightening-but more frightening: the idea of being airlifted to the hospital by helicopter

• Michelin Star Chef, Matthew Accarrino’s unexpected cycling accident that led him to a successful culinary career

• KC Cross’ journey to understand the intersections of their own identity as a black, queer,and non-binary cyclist while creating amore inclusive and accessible cycling culture

• The waste cycle created by bike manufacturing and consumption

• A family of mountain bike stars travel together after discovering their mother’s degenerative brain disease

• Unprecedented weather accompanies a 245km gravel race through the Cederberg, South Africa

• A music video Mary Jane Dunphe shot on the streets of Berlin

• Cycle through the streets of New York City in remembrance of a friend who died by suicide (Nowness)

• A struggling road cyclist reflects on her aspirations, her sacrifices, and reconsiders if the prize is worth the pain

• Beau Marksohn, aka the Dad Bod Cyclist, uses the bicycle to heal from childhood abuse and reflect how that impacted his relationship with his body as an adult

• An immigrant student from South Korea tries to make friends in a new country.

Tickets are available for purchase now!

About Bicycle Film Festival-Founded in New York, BFF has been celebrating bicycles through art, film and music the last 24 years. The BFF spanned the world in up to 100 cities to an audience of over one million people. The festival has an incredible history of working with the most important artists, filmmakers, venues, and institutions around the world. The international locales included Paris, London, Tokyo, Shanghai, Mexico City, Cape Town and Istanbul and more at some of the most important venues such as Sydney Opera House and the Barbican or an old factory inZurich. The subcultures of cycling have shared equal billing with the most exciting innovators in music, art, design and film. Participants have included: Erykah Badu, Karl Lagerfeld, FrancescoClemente, Shepard Fairey, Albert Maysles, Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, Alex Katz, Kaws, Mike Mills, Paul Smith, the Neistat Brothers, Tom Sachs, Ridley Scott, Kiki Smith, Swoon, and Ai Weiwei.

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