International Cycling Film Festival
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| Location | Katowice and Kraków in Poland, Herne and Wiesbaden in Germany and Groningen in the Netherlands |
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| Founded | 2005 as International Cycling Video Festival -2009 renamed International Cycling Film Festival |
| Awards | Goldene Kurbel and Audience Awards |
| Hosted by | Europäisches Büro für Filmkunst und Fahrradkultur, Team Hollandse Frietjes - non-professional cycling, Bochum, Roomservice, Herne, Germany, and Fundacja Miasta dla Ludzi, , Poland |
| Number of films | 18 films from 10 countries 2016 |
| Festival date | Kraków: September 17, 2016. Herne: October 21 and 22, 2016. Wiesbaden: March 3, 2017. Groningen: March, 2017 |
| Website | http://www.cyclingfilms.de/ |
The International Cycling Film Festival (Polish: Międzynarodowy Festiwal Filmów Rowerowych, German: Internationales Festival des Fahrrad-Films) is an inpedendent, not-for-profit film festival held annually in Germany, in Poland and in the Netherlands. Its mission is to strengthen international cooperation in the areas of art film and bicycle culture. The festival promotes interaction between movie makers and cyclists from all over the world. It has screened more than 250 short movies from more than 30 countries since its debut in 2006. Each year around 20 films compete for the award Goldene Kurbel and the awards of the audience. The Neistat Brothers, Michaël Dudok de Wit, Lucas Brunelle, M. A. Numminen and other filmmakers and artists contributed to the ICFF.
The last and 11th International Cycling Film Festival screened 18 bike films from ten countries. Approximately 350 participants attended the festival in Germany, around 200 participated in the Polish edition of the ICFF. The 12th ICFF is scheduled for September 2017 in Kraków and Katowice, October 2017 in Herne and March 2018 in Groningen and Wiesbaden.
The International Cycling Film Festival was established in December 2005 in Bochum by the chairman of the cycling club Team Hollandse Frietjes – non-professional cycling, Gernot Mühge. The festival launched in September 2006 under the name "International Cycling Video Festival" (German: Internationales Festival des Radsport-Videos). Featured were 17 films from the USA, Scotland, Switzerland, Austria and Germany. The first three festivals took place at “Goldkante”, a club for the local art scene and social-cultural events in Bochum. During these years the festival was arranged as a three-days festival, containing two film evenings at the first two days and ending with a time trial for both cyclists and movie makers at the third day. The laudatory for the Goldene Kurbel in these years was Frank Hörner, director of the Theater Kohlenpott, which is a children and youth theatre in the Flottmann-Hallen, Herne. He facilitated the transfer of the ICFF from Bochum to nearby Herne.
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