The International Cycling Film Festival ( Polish : Międzynarodowy Festiwal Filmów Rowerowych , German : Internationales Festival des Fahrrad-Films ) is an independent, not-for-profit film festival held annually in Germany , in Poland , in Kosovo 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 350 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 , Andrea Dorfman , Tomer Shushan , Lucas Brunelle , Steven Subotnick , Nash Edgerton , M. A. Numminen and other filmmakers and artists contributed to the ICFF.
56-872: The last and 16th International Cycling Film Festival screened 17 bike films from 10 countries. Approximately 350 participants attended the festival in Germany, around 200 participated in the Polish edition of the ICFF. The 12th ICFF began the season in October 2017 in Herne with 19 films. Further venues are Groningen and Wiesbaden in March 2018, Munich in June and Katowice in September 2018. The International Cycling Film Festival
112-535: A Dutch animation from Michaël Dudok de Wit was the Goldene Kurbel awardee in 2012. The metaphorical and touching film tells the story of a young girl, beginning with the goodbye of her father who leaves in a small boat. Over and over the girl took the bike to come back to the point where he left. This scene recurs for several stages of her life, i.e. as young woman cycling with her girlfriends, with her husband and children, as an elder woman, yet within her there
168-607: 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
224-431: A congenial dance partner in the leading roles. The prize for the best film 2013 was given to Three-Legged Horses from Felipe Bustos Sierra, Edinburgh , Scotland . His short shows an evening in the live of a professional cycle rickshaw driver, the friendly contacts with passersby, street musicians, colleagues, but also by the demanding fight against gravity, physical pain and nasty passengers. Referring to this contrast
280-577: A hayfork” at the 9th ICFF in Herne personally. Due to this new cooperation between Dutch, Polish and German festival makers Groningen became an additional venue off the ICFF. In the same time the makers of the ICFF started collaboration with the party Alliance '90/The Greens of the municipality of Wiesbaden. As a result, the German Film Heritage Foundation Murnau Stiftung was found as the fifth fixed venue of
336-468: A little girl, riding her bike in a bad mood. She puts fire to houses by ringing her bell. A weird hare tries to extinguish the flames, but finally the girl overwhelmed and dominated him. "Little Girl" is an ambiguous film in a gloomy atmosphere, and it does provide only few guidance to the viewer. The short plays artfully with the levels of imagination, symbols and reality, so the Jury Commission of
392-884: A meeting on future cooperation among bicycle activists in the Ruhr district held in the bike kitchen in Dortmund , Aleksander Kopia, founder of the Silesian Bicycle Initiative ( Polish : Śląska Inicjatywa Rowerowa ), Poland met people from the ICFF. From that point the Polish initiative is a partner of the ICFF. First guest performances in Poland occurred in the Silesian Voivodeship in Katowice and in Częstochowa in summer 2012. This gave rise to
448-475: A number of houses in the Vincke-Strasse (only some of the outer shell had remained) and resulting in the deaths of all the inhabitants. Phosphorus bombs were dropped in several locations and caused fires that lasted for days. The canal was the major mode of transportation for coal and coke from the many coal mines in the area to the factories for iron ore to be processed into steel (Blau-Stahl), and coal
504-424: A portrait of Frans van der Meer, Amsterdam's most authentic bicycle repairmen. The film demonstrates that bicycles are the legs of Amsterdam, and by fixing bicycles Frans keeps the city running. Wytse Koetse's touching documentary shows Frans’ 90 years old workshop transforming the big city of Amsterdam into a village, where people need their bikes fixed for their daily life, they meet and provide mutual support. 2014
560-413: A tailor-made program in dialogue with the local people and organizers. The film selection is taken from the ICFF film archive that includes several hundred bike related short films. Based on this archive particular performances were developed in the past, like “Bike Animation Night”, “The Fantastic Bicycle Movie”, “Bike adventures”, “German Bike Shorts”. The first guest performance of the ICFF took place in
616-502: Is Frank Dudda of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), elected in 2015 and re-elected in 2020. The most recent mayoral election was held on 13 September 2020, and the results were as follows: The Herne city council governs the city alongside the mayor. The most recent city council election was held on 13 September 2020, and the results were as follows: The largest communities of migrants: A fair called Cranger Kirmes
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#1732786789614672-534: Is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany. It is located in the Ruhr area directly between the cities of Bochum , and Gelsenkirchen . Herne (ancient Haranni) was a tiny village until the 19th century. When the mining of coal (and possibly ore) and the production of coke (the fuel processed from the harvested coal) and steel began, the villages of the Ruhr area had an influx of people, mostly from
728-464: Is always a deep longing for her father. The compelling film won the audience award of the ICFF 2012, too. The film prize 2011 was awarded to the American short Cycle of love by Catherine Marshall. It is the first contribution for the ICFF, within which bicycles play all parts in the film. The festival jury was positive about the amazing expressivity of Catherine Marshall's playing act bicycles, which
784-400: Is chosen by a jury of local film, bicycle and art experts who are also in charge for the official selection of the festival program. The Goldene Kurbel consists of a golden right-side crank arm of a bicycle on the top of a wooden base. The crank stands as a symbol for the bicycle and refers also to the crank of early hand-cranked film cameras. Polish-German movie maker Nena Adelajda Olczak wins
840-452: Is held in the city's Crange district every first week of August. This is the second largest-carnival in Germany, with an average of around 4.5 million visitors. Its origins can be traced back to the 15th century, when farmers started trading horses on Saint Lawrence's Day. The horse show and horse equipment sales were arranged at the same place where horses were traded years ago for tradition. Famous Hernians or Wanne-Eickelians include: Herne
896-590: Is home to several football clubs, including SC Westfalia Herne , DSC Wanne-Eickel and SV Sodingen . Herne-West is a mockery name of the football club Schalke 04 , most commonly used by the fans of Borussia Dortmund . Herne is twinned with: [REDACTED] Media related to Herne at Wikimedia Commons Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation The Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation ( German : Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈmʊʁnaʊ ˈʃtɪftʊŋ] ), based in Wiesbaden ,
952-759: The Berlinale in February 2014" which it won an award for best archive restoration in 2015 from FOCAL International . The foundation was also involved in the restoration of Fritz Lang's Destiny which had "faded and degraded almost beyond recognition." The foundation maintains about 80% of Germany's forbidden Nazi-era films (called " Vorbehaltsfilm [ de ] " in German) referring to this collection of 40 films as "reserved" films which are "propagandistic productions created under Hitler, which may only be used for scientific evaluation in Germany and within
1008-554: The Theater Kohlenpott the makers of the festival decided to move the 4th International Cycling Film Festival to Herne 2009. From then until now the festival takes place at the Flottmann-Hallen, a former machine-tool factory, which was transformed into a cultural centre for Herne following its closure in 1983. During the years 2010 to 2012 the ICFF was included in the “ VVicycle - Herne Film and Bicycle Days”, an organizational umbrella for different film festivals taking place in
1064-677: The 11th and 12th centuries. In 1860, the first of a number of coal mines started operating. In the following thirty years, the population increased twenty-fold. In 1975, Wanne-Eickel, by then a city with over 70,000 inhabitants, was incorporated into Herne, which had a population larger than "Wanne-Eickel" at that point in time. Herne was targeted by the Royal Air Force on 4 June 1940, early in World War II, and air raids became daily and nightly occurrences. On one occasion, three high-explosive torpedo-bombs were dropped, severely damaging
1120-560: The 12th ICFF. The Goldene Kurbel of the 11th ICFF was given to Cycologic , a documentary about the power of women on bikes in Uganda, directed by Emilia Stålhammar, Veronica Pålsson and Elsa Lövdin, Sweden. The film was shot in Kampala, Uganda, in an absurd mess of mini vans and lorries; in this particular traffic the bicycle appears as a statement of social justice, equity and quality of life (not only) for African people. The film focusses on
1176-610: The 1930s. He was presumably murdered by the Gestapo in 1940. The Souvenir Albert Richter not only commemorates the cyclist, but above all the opponent and victim of National Socialist tyranny. The name of the price also refers to the Tour de France and its Souvenir Henri Desgrange . The first Souvenir Albert Richter is won by the Belgian filmmaker Jasmijn Cedee for her experimental film "Toer". The sporting "Competition Stefan Götz" marks
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#17327867896141232-459: The 2010th jury's comment. The winner in 2009 was the German movie maker Jörn Staeger. His film Rad (English title: Wheel ) is a short about a bizarre cycling trip under time pressure and against bicycle-specific obstacles: men, dogs, bike chains. The 2008 prize winner was the movie maker Mike Tereba from Luxembourg for his contribution Psyclist , a gloomy feature film dedicated to a cyclist who
1288-416: The Flottmann-Hallen, Herne. He facilitated the transfer of the ICFF from Bochum to nearby Herne . Since a continuous growth by an increasing number of participants and a rising variety and quality of film contributions the festival was renamed "International Cycling Film Festival” 2009. Also the festival's venue “Goldkante” became too small for the audience over the years. Based on the existing cooperation to
1344-435: The Flottmann-Hallen. “The fantastic bicycle film" ( German : Der fantastische Fahrradfilm ) was the particular motto of the 6th International Cycling Film Festival. The motto was repeated as "The fantastic bicycle film reloaded" during the 8th ICFF 2013. These two specific programs included anime , animation and auteur films from Argentina, Austria, Greece, Germany, Japan, Italy, Poland and Portugal. In Summer 2011, during
1400-586: The German Museum for Sport and Olympics ( German : Deutsches Sport & Olympia Museum ), Cologne and in the Centennial Hall ( German : Jahrhunderthalle Bochum ) during the festival “Bicycle Summer of Industrial Culture”, in 2011. In 2017 guest performances take place in several cities in Germany ( Munich , Mainz , Wiesbaden , Hattingen and others), in France ( Lille , Roubaix ), in
1456-808: The German secret police Gestapo . At the center of the film is his Jewish manager, the Cologne-based Ernst Berliner, who, fleeing from the Nazis, survives the Nazi era in the Netherlands. He tries to prosecute the case in the 1960s, but the German judiciary refuses to open it. Also his former fellows in Cologne refuse him, "the disturbance”. Ernst Berliner travels home to the US with the intention to never return to Germany. “'Tigersprung' reminds us of
1512-536: The Goldene Kurbel was given to The Bell from Pijus Mickus, Lithuania. The Bell is a film about a girl's dream of a cycle of her own, fulfilled by her loving parents. Since the bell does not ring the young owner starts her first ride to let the bell repaired. But the bike ride through the Lithuanian landscape appears difficult; the bicycle falls apart into pieces. Pijus Mickus' short shows powerfully expressive performance dance, with Indrė Pivoraitė and her bicycle as
1568-572: The Goldenen Kurbel of the 16th ICFF in 2021 for Welcome to Polotubbieland . Things are sporty in Polotubbieland: dressed in Polish national colours, its inhabitants skilfully do cartwheels or ride around on the road bike. In contrast to the perfect world of fitness on the visual level, the film reveals on the soundtrack the abysses of contemporary Polish cultural politics, its radical break with artistic freedom and freedom of opinion in
1624-403: The ICFF, Bochum 2008: Thomas Wisiolek, amateur cyclist 2007: Rolf Trovato, amateur cyclist 2006: Holger Zepper, movie maker Beside the fixed venues the ICFF gives numerous guest performances all over Europe. Basically the ICFF has got two concepts. First is a screening of the current program of the ICFF, i.e. in 2016/2017 the program of the 11th ICFF. Second and more often, the ICFF creates
1680-480: The ICFF. It is now a trinational festival with board members from and fixed venues in Poland, the Netherlands and Germany. With its further expansion also the approach of the festival was more and more outlined. Nowadays its mission is two-fold. First, the ICFF focuses on the bicycle as a subject of cinematic art. This part of the festival is represented by movie makers like Werther Germondari , Michaël Dudok de Wit , Jörn Staeger, or Michael Klöfkorn, who contributed to
1736-799: The Netherlands ( Amersfoort ), in Poland (Katowice and others) and in Belarus ( Minsk ). During summer 2017 the ICFF goes on tour across Russia , with an opening in Moscow in the Goethe Institut and the Embassy of Germany, Moscow and venues in St. Petersburg , Yekaterinburg and others. No one has yet approached the subject of cycling in such an entertaining, amusing and aesthetically pleasing manner. Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia Herne ( German pronunciation: [ˈhɛʁnə] )
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1792-743: The Polish edition of the ICFF moved from Częstochowa to Kraków. Since that time the ICFF is under the patronage of the German Consulate General in Kraków. The Polish festival edition is supported by the Goethe-Institut , a German cultural association encouraging international cultural exchange. In 2014 the Dutch movie maker Erwin Zantinga from Groningen became a new member of the ICFF board after he presented his film “Two wheels and
1848-458: The confrontation with Nazi sports history," so festival maker Gernot Mühge in his laudatory speech: "The film refers to what Ralph Giordano has called the second guilt of the Germans - the numerous gaps and failures in the efforts to confront the Nazi history". Little Girl , an animation from Steven Subotnick , USA, was awarded with the Goldene Kurbel of the 12th ICFF. The short film is about
1904-600: The east of Germany. Herne is located on the direct axis between Bochum to the south and Recklinghausen to the north, with Münster in the north, Gelsenkirchen to the west, and Castrop-Rauxel and Dortmund to the east. The physical border between Herne and Recklinghausen is the bridge at the Bochumer Strasse across the Rhine–Herne Canal . A little further north of the canal flows the Emscher river , with
1960-667: The end of each German edition of the International Cycling Film Festival. It is named after the first sponsor of the Team Hollandse Frietjes. In the first few years of the festival the Competition Stefan Götz took the form of an individual and team time trial over about 20 km, which was open to both audience and movie makers. 2009 the Competition Stefan Götz was a match sprint over about 800 metres, 2011 it
2016-429: The festival. Second, the ICFF screens films as a means of expression in the fast growing bicycle culture . It is a forum for movie makers from the bicycle community like Lucas Brunelle or Casey Neistat . The Goldene Kurbel (English: Golden Crank ) is the highest prize awarded to the best film in the festival, counting as The Oscar for bicycle films. It is the oldest film prize for bicycle-related films. The award
2072-439: The film ends in a big brass party including the whole nightlife of Edinburgh. Three-Legged Horses shows the bright and dark site of professional bicycle driving, the fascination of free urban life, the solidarity among a modern precariat on the one hand, and on the other hand the vulnerability and toughness of this particular work life. The film won both Goldene Kurbel and audience award of the 8th ICFF. Father and Daughter ,
2128-501: The former abundance of wild horses that were caught in the Emscher Valley (Emschertal), then sold and/or traded at the yearly horse market at Crange, which later developed into the " Cranger Kirmes ". After World War II , Herne was known as "Die Goldene Stadt" ("The Golden City") because of the comparatively limited damage suffered during World War II. Present-day Herne includes the former settlements of Haranni, originating at
2184-508: The former production companies UFA , Decla , Universum-Film , Bavaria , Terra , Tobis and Berlin-Film. This outstanding inventory of cultural and film history – more than 6,000 silent movies and sound films (feature films, documentaries, short movies and commercials) – covers the period from the beginnings of motion pictures to the early 1960s, and includes movies by important directors such as Fritz Lang , Ernst Lubitsch , Detlef Sierck , Helmut Käutner , and Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau ,
2240-531: The framework of political education." This collection includes the notorious Jud Süß , Quax the Crash Pilot , Kolberg , I Accuse , and The Eternal Jew . The treatment of reserved films by the Murnau Foundation has been met with criticism. Critics accuse the foundation of misusing copyrights for film censorship and not for the intended purpose of copyright law where, they argue,
2296-511: The government should institute a ban through legislation instead. Unlike the FSK , there are no legal evaluations for the decisions of the Board of Trustees. Critics also point out the opaque process of deciding which films should be reserved, noting that there is no transparent criteria, the experts consulted are not publicized, and any reports used are not publicized. For instance, the film The Old and
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2352-418: The idea of setting up a second ICFF in Poland based on equal partnership between the Polish and German makers of the ICFF. So 2013 the program of the festival was shown simultaneously in Herne and Częstochowa. Furthermore, a new prize for bicycle-related films was created. The award was named Trzy złote szprychy (English: Three Golden Spokes ) and is the audience award of the festival's Polish edition. In 2014,
2408-422: The name of the nation state. Populism leaves no room for the other, the foreign. "Dirty migrants go home" chant right-wing polotubbie artists in the bitter ending of the touching experimental film. The Goldene Kurbel of the 13th ICFF was given to Tigersprung (Tiger leap), a film by Boaz Kaizman, Peter Rosenthal and Stefan Seibert about Albert Richter , 1932 amateur world champion on the track, murdered in 1940 by
2464-574: The namesake of the foundation. Titles include well-known films like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), Metropolis (1927), The Blue Angel (1930), The Three from the Filling Station (1930), Münchhausen (1943) and Große Freiheit Nr. 7 (1944). The foundation runs "the German Film House in a central location in the state capital of Hesse – Wiesbaden" as well as the "Murnau cinema theatre where films are shown to
2520-444: The political work of Amanda Ngabirano and other women for the creation of car free zones and bike lanes as well their promotion of women in cycling: “Seeing a woman riding a bicycle should not be seen as a sign of courage and fearlessness, but rather a sign of safe streets; and that should be the focus of the planning authorities”, so Amanda. The winner of the 10th ICFF in 2015/2016 was Wytse Koetse for his film De Benen van Amsterdam ,
2576-517: The public and a multi-function area where numerous events and exhibitions are held." The foundation's most prominent film restoration was the 2010 re-release of Fritz Lang's Metropolis which was originally screened at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival . It has additionally restored, with financial support from the prior owners of their film stock, Bertelsmann , The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari which premiered "at
2632-424: The runner-up to the Goldene Kurbel at the 12th ICFF in Herne, 2017. The award is the second-most prestigious prize of the festival after the Goldene Kurbel. The Souvenir Albert Richter was introduced at the 13th ICFF in 2018. Since then, it has been the festival's prize for the best road bike film. The award is dedicated to the German track cyclist Albert Richter, who belonged to the world's elite track sprinters in
2688-683: The south end of the Bahnhofstrasse and just across the Evangelische Hauptkirche Herne (main Lutheran Church—seems to be called "Kreuzkirche" now) and the crossing of Sodingerstrasse, running to the east at that point, then turning into Wiescherstrasse; formerly independent settlements or villages like Baukau, Börnig, Crange, Horsthausen, Pöppinghausen, Sodingen, and others became the present Herne. These farms bearing these names were probably or possibly found in
2744-769: The stationary bicycle operates a record player. Its tone arm is connected with a computer, and the stylus works as a speed sensor for the stationary bike. The racetrack is simulated by a video projection, both cyclists have to ride a similar virtual parkour on the cinema screen. 2019: Magnus Fischer, master of bicycle mechanics, Hildesheim 2018: Boris Weidtmann, Duisburg 2017: Christoph Lotz, lawyer, Bochum 2016: Philipp Todtberg, carpentry student, Dortmund 2015: Uwe Hermesmeier, board member ADFC Mönchengladbach, Mönchengladbach 2014 and 2013: Axel Rickel, bicycle salesman, Dortmund 2012: Pierre Cournoyer, performing artist at Roomservice, Herne 2011: Bike Polo Team "Champagneros", Duisburg 2009: Gernot Mühge, founding director of
2800-490: Was an Urban Cycle Polo match, 2012 a Goldsprint . From 2013 onwards it is a so-called Vinylsprint race, which is an invention of the ICFF makers. The Vinylsprint is a variation of a Goldsprint race. It was invented by one of the makers of the ICFF, Patrick Praschma, and introduced at the 8th ICFF. Similar to the Goldsprint two stationary bicycles are its basis. The bicycles are coupled with belt-drive turntables: Pedaling
2856-543: 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 US, Scotland, Switzerland, Austria and Germany. The first three festivals took place at “Goldkante”,
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#17327867896142912-493: Was founded in 1966 to preserve and curate a collection of the works of Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau as well as a collection of other German films totaling to about 6,000 produced between 1890 and 1960. The foundation is owned by the Federal Republic of Germany and was founded in 1966 out of fear that classic German cinema 's original stock, and the rights to these films, would be sold off internationally. The stock
2968-571: Was killed in a bicycle accident. Winners of the Goldene Kurbel in previous years were the German movie maker Sören Büngener for his film A Look in the Mirror in 2007; a year earlier, in 2006, the Goldene Kurbel was awarded to the Austrian/German artists Sylvia Winkler und Stephan Köperl and their film doored in downtown . The Grand Prize of the Jury was introduced as a special film award for
3024-481: Was needed for the tragicomical love story of her film. 2010 the Goldene Kurbel was given to the Romanian artist Alexei Gubenco and his movie Vive La Crise! . The animation takes the economic and financial crisis as a starting point: "The short shows in an optimistic and satirical way the benefits of the cycle for both individuals and society, referring to the (as it were) anti-consumerism character of cycling", so
3080-456: Was originally owned by Bertelsmann . The foundation maintains about 80% of Germany's forbidden Nazi-era films and acts as a gate keeper for public access to these films via archives and curated public screenings. As an archive and rights holder the Murnau Foundation curates a significant part of Germany’s movie heritage. Its most important endowment is the unique, cohesive movie stock, which comprises copies and material as well as rights from
3136-459: Was transported along the inter-connecting waterways in all other directions to be used for industrial as well as domestic use. In particular, the bridge across Rhine–Herne Canal , closest to the easternmost double-chambered lock and the wharf on the north shore, was hit and taken out. The Krupp Treibstoffwerke oil refinery near the local Shamrock, ¾ of the coal mine, was bombed during the oil campaign of World War II . The current mayor of Herne
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