Programme

Thursday 26 August, 8pm til late
Ride Leicester Launch Party - Phoenix Square Bar FREE with a smile. All welcome! Arrive by Bike

Friday 27 August, 6pm
Tati's debut feature brings his anarchic cycling postman to life in rural France beating errant car drivers and adrenalin-fix cycle race junkies with slapstick genius.
Cert U, Jacques Tati, France, 1949, 1hr 10mins, subtitled & wonderful

Friday 27 August, 8.15pm
This has to be seen on the big screen.
Cert 12A, Sylvain Chomet, France, 2003, 1hr 20mins

Saturday 28 August, 5pm
Documentary shorts plus Wave Young Reporters Q & A asking the questions: Invited panel TBC
Cert 12A, various dirs, 2007-10

Saturday 28 August, 6.15pm
“No one rides alone” – The world’s best downhillers, freeriders and slopestylers.
Anthill Films, 2010, 1hr 35mins

Saturday 28 August, 8.45pm
A masterpiece study of endurance riders crossing an epic emotional landscape.
Cert 12A, Jason Berry, USA, 1hr 15mins

Sunday 29 August, 10am-12pm and 2pm-4pm
A selection of short bike films from Boy & A Bicycle (Ridley Scott) to Standing Start (Adrian McDowall & Finlay Pretsell) via Pedalling to Freedom (Vijay S Jodha) and all things bike in between.

Sunday 29 August, 12pm
Award-winning poet Matt Welton (Guardian Book of the Year 2003) will launch Ride Leicester's '100 Words for Bicycle' Blog with an introduction to Alan Sillitoe's 'Saturday Night Sunday Morning'

Sunday 29 August, 12pm
A Bike Film Festival tribute to the late great Alan Sillitoe (1928 - 2010). Albert Finney's debut performance as a womanising Raleigh Factory Worker looking for social freedom in a pint glass and the arms of several good women. Based on Sillitoe's own experience living & working at the Nottingham bicycle factory.
Cert PG, Karel Reisz, UK, 1960, 1hr 29mins

Sunday 29 August, 5.30pm
World BMX Champion Keelan Phillips will perform a BMX Flatland show outside Phoenix

Sunday 29 August, 6pm
A FREE screening of the world’s biggest and best short films including "Birth of Big Air" (see below). Film details here. Awesome! In support of Mr Chop & ‘UK Prostate & Testicular Cancer Campaign’. Donations Welcome!!
Various dirs, 1hr 30mins

Sunday 29 August, 6pm
Mat Hoffman tribute. Directed by longtime friend Jeff Tremaine. Produced by Priya Swaminathan, Spike Jonze, and Mark Lewman
Dir. Jeff Tremaine, USA, 2010, HD 54 mins

Sunday 29 August, 8.15pm
A Ride Leicester favourite. Smart, sweet, engaging, joyful & exciting!
Cert PG, Manon Briand, Canada, 1998, 1hr 40mins