Film & photography selection
@BFF INSTA
takeover
Feb 23—29

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WATCH EPISODE I
WATCH EPISODE II
WATCH EPISODE III
WATCH EPISODE IV

Online premiere 2013 December 1st
Official selection at BFF NYC 2014
BFF worldwide program 2014/2015

We followed Erik Nohlin and Recep Yeşil, both part of the developer team around the Specialized AWOL, on their idea to ride the first Transcontinental Race from Londo to Istanbul within two weeks — overcomin more than 3,100 kilometer, 30,000 meter of altitude gain and 14 european borders — unsupported, following a route of their choice.
It has been a wild and inspirational journey in so many ways.

Amidst the seemingly endless fields of the north Italian Po Valley you find Villa Rocca — a 20 people strong village, dominated by a 500-year-old, inexorably crumbling castle.

For one day a year, the magical morbid place comes to life, when a colorful bunch of velophile Italians convert the castle grounds into a single speed cyclocross course.

Shot on location in Villarocca, Italy.

Official selection at BICYCLE FILM FESTIVAL NYC 2012 part of the worldwide festival program 2012/2013.

Selected screenings
Moeche Cross, Isola St. Erasmo, Venice, IT
Inland Emprie Bike Alliance Film Festival, USA
Sheffield Adventure Film Festival, UK
5Point Film Festival, Carbondale, USA
Cross Crusade Film Fest, Portland, USA
Edinburgh Festival of Cycling, Scottland
Kalamazoo Bicycle Film Festival, USA

LENGTH OF SWEDEN is an endurance ride documentary — following Erik Nohlin, Rita Jett and Kristian Hallberg on the 2,100 km Sverigetempot randonée along the spine of sparsely populated Scandinavia.

All three riders would crack a nut like this without talking about it. But these very thoughts that comes up when you’re riding long distance, the mental road you roll behind your comfort zone, all tunnels you ride into—we wanted to document.

Premiere screenings in Los Angeles, London & Gothenburg; online release 2017 January 21—22 on Specialized.com

Screenings (Selection)
Bicycle Film Festival, New York City, 2017
Berlin Bicycle Week, Berlin, 2017
Bicycle Happening Linz, Linz, 2017
XV. International Festival of Outdoor Films, Festival tour, 2017
X. RADKULT Filmfestival Wien, Vienna, 2017
II. Morocco Adventure Film Festival, Rabat, 2017

“I ride away from my will to finish that painting.“ – Torben Giehler

This portrait film features German artist Torben Giehler, who returned to Berlin after living 15 years in Brooklyn, NY. He shares his perspective on his art, riding and Berlin.

"You can be competitive, there's nothing wrong with that. It's great fun to beat each other and rub it in each others face. And luv it. But you've gotta have a sense of humor about it, otherwise it's not Manchester."
- Holly Carter, Manchester Wheelers

A sensible portrait of three different riders and how their lives are connected through the sport of cycling and the city of Manchester, UK. 

Featuring former professional cyclist Alan Mellor, current professional cyclist Andrew Tennant & Holly Carter. 

he series features Dutch cyclocross professional Sophie De Boer,
German painter Torben Giehler, Italian photographer Alessandro Trovati, Carsten Wien of Schicke Mütze Düsseldorf and Holly Carter of Rare Mags Manchester among others respectively.

Find out more here.

Produced by ERTZUI FILM
Pictures by Kristian Walter & Martin Gilluck
Architecture / Written by Kristian Walter
Montage / Sound Design by Martin Gilluck
Colour grading by Martin Schroeder