A story driven and diverse curation of cinematic filmmaking styles: narrative, documentaries, musical, and more. Oscar nominated and award-winning shorts share equal billing with emerging new talent.

I'M GOIN' THE OTHER WAY
Portugal 2025 16mm 3min.
Dir.  Marco Espirito Santo
An exquisite cinematic exploration of Ciclopes, a Lisbon initiative promoting youth mobility through bicycles. 

SOPHIE ALLEN'S FIELD NOTES
United States 2026 9min.
Dir. Brian Vernor
Sophie Allen races, dirt jumps, explores, gets competitive, gets distracted by wildlife, and seems happy as long as she’s outside. She’s built a reputation as a versatile rider, but racing is only part of the picture. Beyond the bike, she’s a biologist, climber, hiker and all-round outdoor lover.

KING OF THE MOUNTAIN
United Kingdom 2015 9min.
Dir. Orlando von Einsiedel
As a boy growing up, Samuel Mugisha dreamed of being a part of the Rwandan national cycling team, Team Rwanda, as he believed it would be a way to help make money for his family. What he discovered was something else entirely. In a country trying to get over the trauma of a genocide, Team Rwanda represents a lot more than sport.

NARMOOK
India 2025 15min.
Dir. Ghazal Zoghiniya
An Iranian teenager has her beloved bicycle taken away as she reaches puberty. She fights her family and society to get it back.

LIFE IS A GIFT
United States 2026 3min.
Dir. Gloria Joy Kazuko Muhammad, Mu Knowles
What does it mean to be liberated? To be free? For you and those you love. 

BREAD BIKE
United States 2024 18min.
Dir. Beth Gage, George Gage
Three friends on California’s central coast turn their love of baking into a business after college. What begins as a home bread delivery by bike grows into a neighborhood bakery, where farmers, regulars, and neighbors become part of the story. It’s a warm, hopeful portrait of how small businesses build the kind of community no big box store can match.

CYCLING WITHOUT AGE
United States 2025 27min.
Dir. Isaac Seigel-Boettner
The film follows volunteers piloting pedal-powered rickshaws, giving elderly passengers the joy of biking while often finding even greater reward themselves.

AMÉRICA
Peru 2025 16min.
Dir. Javier Augusto Arias-Stella
América, a 10-year-old girl from a remote Andean village, dreams of buying a bicycle so she’ll never be late to class again. Oscar-Qualified Film.

HER KHALTSHA
South Africa 2024 7min.
Dir. Robyn Phillips
Khaltsha Cycling Academy, the first all-girls cycling group in Khayelitsha Township, empowers young women to defy societal norms, find freedom and dream beyond the limits of their neighborhood.

PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY ⎮ FASTEST KNOWN TIME
United States 2026 9min.
Dir. Nicholas Weissman
Daniel Connell attempts a self-supported Fastest Known Time from Vancouver to Tijuana, covering over 1,500 miles in 6.5 days, including a 500 mile, 35 hour nonstop push through extreme fatigue and sleep deprivation.

LE TOUR DE CANADA
Canada 2026 6min.
Dir. John Hollands
Two rival cyclists face off in a grueling and surreal cross-Canada cycling race, Le Tour De Canada!

I RIDE MY BIKE WHEN THE AIR IS CRISPY
United States 2020 1min.
Dir. Julian Glander
The perfect fall day.

CALI GIRLS
United States 2026 74min.
Dir. Jen Whalen
After a positive drug test nukes her career, a hard-headed bike racer finds a new kind of performance enhancer in shared chaos, friendship and delusion. Created by Jen Whalen, a seasoned and accomplished director and producer, and a former pro cyclist, influenced by her experiences in the wildly beautiful, hilarious and often heartbreaking sport.

These films capture the spirit of street, youth, fixed gear, bmx, and messenger cultures from passionate cyclists in cities around the world. The Urban Bike program is a popular tradition at the BFF.

EBRO
United States 2022 10min.
Dir. Ian Bartlett
EBRO (Everybody’s Rideout) is a bicycle takeover and one of the nation's largest and most anticipated street riding events on the Bike Life calendar attracting riders from across America and overseas. Riders of all ages, gender, and race descend upon NYC every September for a family reunion with this high energy wheeling community. 

CITY BIKE BOY 
United States 2025 5min.
Dir. Jerome Peel
A look back into the life of City Bike Boy: The ups and downs, and where he is today.

LIVE MORE, RUSH LESS
Mexico 2024 11min.
Dir. Andalusia K Soloff
Women, children and non-binary cyclists reclaim the streets of Mexico City against road rage and sexual violence, revindicating riding bicycles as a way of life, not a way to die.

CAMINO
United States 2025 35mm 4min.
Dir. Eliot Grigo, Simon Schneider
A lone cyclist climbs a storied mountain, chasing silence, memories, and inner peace.

EVEN THE GIRLS!
United States 2004 5min.
Dir. Ashira Fox
A vintange documentary portrait of women bicycle messengers in New York. 

MAMA AGATHA
Netherlands 2016 16min.
Dir. Fadi Hindash
Once a week, a group of migrant women from Southeast Amsterdam meet in a gymnasium to learn how to cycle. Supervising their bicycle course is a Ghanaian woman nicknamed ‘Mama Agatha’. Over the summer, this community mother gives the ladies from China, Pakistan and Suriname the confidence to get behind the two wheels for the first time.

NEVER DONE
USA 2026 10min.
Dir. Dilan Garcia Lopez
Immersed in the punishing world of elite cycling, this film follows Brayan, a rider whose journey demands endurance, mental fortitude, and relentless perseverance. As an immigrant chasing excellence in a sport slow to welcome newcomers, he faces triumphs and setbacks. As he pushes through climbs, doubt, and sacrifice, the story asks a lingering question: Why do you do what you do?

SQUANCHY PAPI
USA 2025 16mm 7min.
Dir. Brinton Douglas 
Through a reflective, meditative lens, the film explores Squanchy Papi, a key figure in Salt Lake's fixed gear community, their motivations for riding, and how the community has shaped her self-expression, now and into the future.

MMFG
United States 2026 5min.
Dir. John Watson Rutland 
Hernan Montenegro, an immigrant living in LA restores carbon fiber bikes and builds custom frames.

CONTACT
United States 2026 14min.
Dir. Jonathan Walley
The transformation of an entire skatepark into a playable musical instrument—where the skate, BMX, art, and music scenes collide.

TRUE TEMPER: TIME'S UP
USA 2026 5min.
Dir. Brinton Douglas 
When your time's up, you get to keep one memory. What will you take with you?

MACAFRAMA – THE WESTERN 
USA 2008 HD 12min.
Dir. Colby Elrick, Colin Arlen 
A fixed gear film from the legendary San Francisco crew, Macaframa. Made for the BFF two decades ago, selling out shows worldwide, it returns to the big screen this year.