Bicycle Film Festival is coming to Madison on October 2nd, 2025 at The Barrymore Theatre with a night of curated short films.
It’s Bicycle Film Festival’s 25th Anniversary celebrating bicycles through art, film, and music.
BFF has reached an audience of one million people across more than 100 cities worldwide. Now the festival is returning to Madison.
Get your tickets now! https://barrymorelive.com/event/25th-annual-bicycle-film-festival-madison
BFF Madison is hosted by Madison Bikes. Bike Valet Parking will be provided.
Documentaries, narratives, animations, award-winning directors, and emerging talents – all share equal billing. Take a journey around the globe. BFF Madison features curated stories about:
- In South Africa, a young women’s cycling group empowers women to defy norms, find freedom, and dream big through cycling.
- Cyclists in London ride through the city distributing food and necessities to those in need, pedaling toward social change.
- A spiritual cyclist from India spreads happiness wherever his journey takes him.
- In rural China, a migrant worker collects and resells styrofoam boxes using her bike—a story scored by music from Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
- See the three-day La Crosse Omnium in La Crosse, Wisconsin from the perspective of youth cyclists.
- A World Bicycle Relief documentary highlights the creation of the Buffalo Bicycle, a rugged bike designed to serve marginalized rural communities
- One documentary reminds us that the simple joy of wind in your hair while cycling is something everyone can experience. At any age, in any stage of life.
Watch the trailer here: https://player.vimeo.com/video/1111087866
The Bicycle Film Festival (BFF) is a global celebration of movement, creativity, and contemporary culture, anchored in cycling and expressed through film, art, music, and immersive experiences. Since 2001, BFF has toured over 100 cities, from Tokyo and Paris to New York and Istanbul, engaging more than a million attendees in person and millions more online.
BFF partners with leading institutions such as the Sydney Opera House, the Andy Warhol Museum, and the Barbican. Artists like Erykah Badu, Daft Punk, Kaws, and Spike Jonze have attended and/or participated. The festival features curated films, exhibitions, performances, and culinary events that reflect a sophisticated lifestyle.
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