Session

Bike Films

The best of this year's bike films from around the world.
 
Mountain biker mid air riding through the woods.
Film: Riding Wild

About

Running time

91 minutes

Certificate

12A

Screenings

Saturday 22 Mar '25 | 5:15pm Screen 3

Sunday 23 Mar '25 | 3:15pm Screen 1

The best of this year's bike films from around the world, featuring makers and menders, riders risking it all, and cycling at the core of community. 

Lovers of life on bike wheels might also enjoy our Bike Packing films, a session of the best new films dedicated to bike packing, gravel riding and adventure biking in all its forms.

Young mountain bike athlete Bo Schwarz does a nose stall with his bike wheel up in the ground 1.5 meters off the ground. His body is silhouetted with the entire background cast in blue light.
Drawn
Explore the imagination and world of mountain biker and artist Bo Schwarz transforms trails into his canvas.
Tom Randall
Switching Lanes
A woman from Bangkok feels alienated by the comparatively soporific pace of San Francisco until a bike restored from a dumpster changes everything.
Man in high vis jacket standing on step ladder filming with an iPad
Dear Dad
A heartfelt letter from a son to his father as Dave McLeavy revisits his father’s cherished memories of cycling as a young man and the joy of rediscovering it later in life.
Film posters showing two mountain bikers pushing their bikes uphill
Flow
Mountain biking mean everything to brothers, Nathan and Ruben, from the Dyfi Valley in Mid Wales, as we explore their family story
Sam Dale riding down a glacier
Sam Dale - Megavalanche
Sam Dale takes on this bike event with a mass start on a glacier and descending for 40 mins at race pace across glacial rock slabs, boulder fields, ski pistes and more!
Mountain biker mid air riding through the woods.
Riding Wild
A Shropshire-based doc showcasing cross country marathon MTB racer Daphne Jones talking about racing, community and women in the sport.
A back-lit mountain biker at night during a 24 hour endurance race
Endure
When a cyclist dies of a heart condition, his friends and family try to make sense of it via a tough 24 hour endurance MTB race, which his dad will try to win in his honour.
Get tickets for Bike Films (12A)
22 Mar '25 | 5:15pm | Screen 3
Get tickets for Bike Films (12A)
23 Mar '25 | 3:15pm | Screen 1

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Featured

Miriam (Mim) and Roy on completion of the cycle tour in Queenstown at the side of a lake wearing t-shirts with all the babies' names on that the film is dedicated to
Bike Packing Films
Bike packing, gravel riding and adventure biking in all its forms; a session of the best new films celebrating a love of life on two wheels.
A snap shot of Elladj skating on wild ice.
Spirit of Adventure Films 1
Spirit of Adventure defines the essence of ShAFF.
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Spirit of Adventure Films 2
Celebrating the Spirit of Adventure often found in surprising people or places.