Program 1: Cinematic Shorts

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.