[h1]FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 18[/h1]
CINEMATIC SHORTS – 9:00 pm
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BFF COMPILATION
A montage of films from the past 15 years at the BFF.
15 min total running time
CARMA
Portugal/Spain 2013 HD 4 min.
Dir. Ramses Albin’ana/Oriol Segarra
A Journey of a bike that doesn’t know who she is.
MOONRIDERS
Switzerland 2015 2 min.
Dir. Christian Mülhauser
A moonlit downhill ride at the base of the Matterhorn in Switzerland.
PEAKS OF LIFE
UK 2013 | 6 min.
Dir. Kris Forrest
With a great outlook on life, Tom isn’t letting his accident slow him down.
MY RIDE
UK 2014 | 3 min.
Dir. Jessie Ayles
Britain’s only female Muslim bicycle group learns how to ride a bicycle for the first time.
TRON KONG
Hong Kong 2014 | 2 min.
Dir. Joshua Wong
In the not too distant future, a night-time bicycle ride goes horribly wrong when a masked rider turns it into a game of cat and mouse, but who is chasing who?
HAVANA BIKES
Spain 2014 | 5 min.
Dir. Diego Vivanco
In today’s Cuba, with the resurgence of motor vehicles, the bicycle is a scarce commodity. Now repairmen must salvage all they can from old bikes in order to keep this culture alive.
BOY
England 2012 | Digital 10 min.
Dir. Justin Chadwick
A man, coming to terms with the loss of his son, works a branch into a perfect block of wood and installs it into a velodrome track as a memorial. He rides the track on his son’s bike, making the journey his son never could. Boy stars respected British actor Timothy Spall, whose works include Secrets and Lies and Harry Potter.
BIKE FOR BREAD
Egypt, France, Switzerland 2013 | 10 min.
Dir. Claude MARTHALER and Raphael JOCHAUD
Over a solid half-century, Cairo has invented an unusual means of delivering bread. The city’s cyclists zoom up one-way streets against endless lines of cars, slipping between the rows of chairs of a café, and disappearing into a bazaar. One hand serves to balance a wooden rack on their heads, bearing hundreds of rounds of bread, and the other rests on the handlebars.
THE BICYCLE
USA 2012 HD 7 min.
Dir. Adam Neustadter and Chris McCoy
An old, abandoned bicycle learns to love again.
ROAD FROM KARAKOL
USA/Kyrgyzstan 2013 HD 24 min.
Dir. Fitz Cahall
There is one question. If the road ended, would you keep pedaling?
BFF AFTER PARTY
The Freewheel Project
618 South Main St.