The Bicycle Film Festival: Urban Bike Shorts

The Bicycle Film Festival: Urban Bike Shorts

9:00pm - Saturday, May 18, 2024

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

BFF Vancouver presents two short film programs: Adventure shorts and Urban Bike shorts. These short films appeal to a wide audience from film connoisseurs to avid cyclists and everyone in between. Curated documentaries, narratives, animations, award-winning directors, and emerging talents – all sharing equal billing.

Presented by HUB Cycling

Saturday, May 18
Urban Bike Shorts
Doors 8:15 pm | Event 9:00 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

General Admission Tickets $20 + s/c
Optional donation to HUB Cycling when you buy your ticket!

Urban Bike Shorts Programme

* The first BMX crew in Nigeria
* An homage to the track bike and the Vancouver community formed around it
* A bicycle takeover and one of the United State's largest, most anticipated street riding events on the bikelife calendar attracting riders from the wheeling community worldwide
* A charismatic Ghanaian immigrant in Amsterdam who teaches refugee adult women to ride bikes
* The story of Leo Rogers
* A love letter to the splendor of winter through the eyes of a female bicycle courier in the midst of a Canadian deep-freeze
* The life of a New York City food delivery worker during the COVID-19 endemic phase
* The story of Reza Alizadeh, a blind bicycle mechanic in Mashhad, Iran
* A short animation about how there’s no stopping where a bike can take you

And more…

*Must be 19+ w/ID for entry and bar service.
*Sorry, Rio Theatre Groupons and passes n/a for this event.
*Online sales end an hour before showtime. Unless otherwise noted, tickets are available for purchase at the box office on the day of the show prior to showtime (subject to availability). Our box office is open 60 minutes before showtime.
*All seating for this event is General Admission; please arrive 20-30 minutes prior to showtime to ensure great seats, and time for snacks at concession.

*All Rio Theatre tickets are final sale.

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