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Bicycle Film Festival returns to Seattle May 6

The Bicycle Film Festival will screen May 6 at the Egyptian Theater on Capitol Hill. And among the short films featured is “A short film about Seattle bike messengers, day laborers, and outsourcing gone wild.” Tickets are $30.

From the event listing:


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BFF Seattle presents an international short film program. Oscar nominated and award-winning shorts share equal billing with emerging new talent that celebrate the bicycle in all its human power forms. Hosted by The Stranger.

BFF Seattle features stories about:

  • A bicycle takeover and one of the United State’s largest, most anticipated street riding events on the bikelife calendar attracting riders from the wheeling community worldwide.
  • Olympian and queer cyclist, Lea Davison proves that you don’t have to choose between who you love and the sport you love.
  • The story of Reza Alizadeh, a blind bicycle mechanic in Mashhad, Iran.
  • The 1900 mile bicycle journey by Erick Cedeno (Bicycle Nomad) retracing the original route of the Buffalo Soldiers.
  • The life of a New York City food delivery worker
  • A man finds his stolen bicycle and it now belongs to a stranger (2021 Oscar Nomination)
  • A family gives up everything to be together in their motorhome, traveling from bike park to bike park across Europe with their mother.
  • A short film about Seattle bike messengers, day laborers, and outsourcing gone wild.
  • Plus more.

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