2019 Festival Film Guide
Films are listed alphabetically
Blenio, Utah
DOCUMENTARY | FEATURE
Winner: Best Feature Film
Premiere: Canadian
Release Year: 2018
Runtime: 57 minutes
Directed by: Alberto Bernad Vidal, Patrick Botticchio
Country: Switzerland
The salt-lake bed in Bonneville, Utah awaits patiently the yearly pilgrimage of motorcycles who come to try to set world land-speed records. In 2017, among the hundreds of racers present, there was also a young butcher from Olivone, a small Swiss town with a population of 800 people. | Read more >
Blue Mountains in the Arctic
DOCUMENTARY | SHORT
Premiere: Canadian
Release Year: 2018
Runtime: 26 minutes
Directed by: Emil Duvander
Country: Sweden
Emil and his friend Mathias travel to Scandinavia's most northern point, North Cape; Nordkapp in Norway, the northernmost point in Europe that can be accessed by car and the northernmost public road in Europe. | Read more >
Crown Land
NARRATIVE | SHORT
Winner: Best Canadian Film
Premiere: World
Release Year: 2019
Runtime: 6 minutes
Produced by: The Fellas
Country: Canada
A short independent film about friendship, adventure and motorcycling. | Read more >
Destination Guatemala
DOCUMENTARY | SHORT
Premiere: World
Release Year: 2019
Runtime: 9 minutes
Directed by: Tolga Basol
Country: United States
Three friends take on a dream they've had for many years, riding up to a live volcano and circling its rim. They journeyed from the villages outside of Antigua, through jungles, and onto the volcanos Pacaya and Acatenanga. | Read more >
The Distinguished Gentleman
DOCUMENTARY | SHORT
Premiere: World
Release Year: 2019
Runtime: 17 minutes
Directed by: Jean Pierre Kathoefer
Country: United States
Vincent Nicolai, a beloved charity fundraiser and friend to many in the New York motorcycle community, was involved in a catastrophic propane explosion resulting in burns to over 40% of his body. | Read more >
Endless | Iceland
NARRATIVE | SHORT
Premiere: World
Release Year: 2019
Runtime: 5 minutes
Directed by: Ricki Bedenbaugh
Country: United States
With tongue-in-cheek humour, freestyle motocross rider Jimmy Hill pulls technical tricks and nohanders through Iceland's black sand beaches. abundant glacial masses and grey overcast skies. | Read more >
Endless | Mexico
NARRATIVE | SHORT
Winner: Best Short Narrative
Premiere: World
Release Year: 2019
Runtime: 5 minutes
Directed by: Ryan Marcus
Country: United States
Endless | Mexico follows freestyle motocross rider Jimmy Hill's shenanigans in Guadalajara, Mexico during the Dia De Los Muertos festival. | Read more >
Escape the City Limits
NARRATIVE | SHORT
Premiere: World
Release Year: 2019
Runtime: 6 minutes
Directed by: Alban Terrier
Country: France
It’s time to take to the road. The perfect moment to break the routine and leave behind our everyday life. The city is still asleep and its tranquility doesn’t seem to be troubled by the machine roaring through. | Read more >
Fast and Left
DOCUMENTARY | SHORT
Winner: Best Short Documentary
Premiere: World
Release Year: 2019
Runtime: 21 minutes
Directed by: Evan H. Senn
Country: United States
You’re doing 140 miles per hour around a mile-long track at one of the oldest motorcycling sports venues in the world, the Springfield Mile in Illinois. Fast and Left looks at the people involved in Flat Track Racing and the community they have developed. | Read more >
First Ride
NARRATIVE | SHORT
Premiere: International
Release Year: 2018
Runtime: 14 minutes
Directed by: Brett Smith
Country: United States
Do you remember the first time you rode a motorcycle? Your first bike? That magical moment became a lifetime memory. First Ride acts out the imagination of one boy discovering motorcycles. One child whose life is forever changed. | Read more >
Jane Love
DOCUMENTARY | SHORT
Premiere: World
Release Year: 2019
Runtime: 5 minutes
Directed by: Andree Ljutica
Country: United States
Jane Love situates itself between the memories and desires of Jane, a young woman who’s rejection of her conservative Southern upbringing has introduced her to the moody world of New York City motorcycle culture. | Read more >
Motorcycle Man
DOCUMENTARY | SHORT
Premiere: International
Release Year: 2019
Runtime: 31 minutes
Directed by: Daniel Lovering
Country: United States
Dave Roper has raced every year since 1972, competing on exotic vintage bikes at racetracks around the world and winning a reputation as a folk hero of the sport. | Read more >
Nowhere Fast
DOCUMENTARY | SHORT
Premiere: World
Release Year: 2018
Runtime: 24 minutes
Directed by: Coleman Smith
Country: United States
Two friends ride motorcycles across the Utah desert through some of the most rugged and beautiful country in the great Southwest. | Read more >
Oil in the Blood
DOCUMENTARY | FEATURE
Premiere: Canadian
Release Year: 2019
Runtime: 125 minutes
Directed by: Gareth Maxwell Roberts
Country: United Kingdom
The custom motorcycle culture has experienced a renaissance in recent years, and what was once a niche subculture now bears a significant influence on the international mainstream motorcycle industry. | Read more >
The Racer
DOCUMENTARY | SHORT
Premiere: Special Screening
Release Year: 2018
Runtime: 13 minutes
Directed by: Alex Harron
Country: United Kingdom
Jodie lives and breathes motorcycling. But the road to reaching the top of the British CB500 championship is paved with difficulties, if it wasn't for her dad's unwavering support. | Read more >
They Call Me Cheetah
DOCUMENTARY | SHORT
Premiere: World
Release Year: 2019
Runtime: 4 minutes
Directed by: Wil Thomas III
Country: United States
A visual poem about motorcycle builder Toshiyuki Osawa and the 1944 Indian Chief, named "Silver Arrow", he built for Larry Smith and unveiled at Born Free Motorcycle Show. | Read more >
WAYNE
DOCUMENTARY | FEATURE
Winner: People's Choice Award
Premiere: North American
Release Year: 2018
Runtime: 97 minutes
Directed by: Jeremy Sims
Country: Australia
Wayne tells the exhilarating story of 1987 World Motorcycle Grand Prix Champion Wayne Gardner's triumphant, improbable journey from a $5 dirt bike to the international summit of his sport. | Read more >