The Big Bike Film Night will screen at Avoca Beach Theatre on Friday, September 5, with a program celebrating cycling in all its glorious shapes and forms.
Proclaimed as “a feast of short films devised and designed for the two-wheel devotee”, it had its humble beginnings in Taupō, New Zealand in 2015.
The Big Bike Film Night is now a much-anticipated global film festival that brings a love of cycling to cinemas, presenting an array of international movies specifically selected by New Zealander curator Brett Cotter.
“Each year I set out with just one goal – to bring together the best short cycling films from around the world for our audiences, celebrating the fun, the adventure, and inspiration that bikes enable,” Cotter said.
“Our 2025 collection contains eight mesmerising films that are as varied and diverse as you could hope for.
“With arguably the finest selection of cycling films yet, from the exotic location of northern Pakistan to the suburban streets of Santa Barbara in America, from the soaring mountain peaks of Austria to breathtaking Queenstown, New Zealand, to the captivating Scottish Highlands.”
All In or Nothing is a classic Kiwi story set around the magnificent Nelson/Tasman region in New Zealand.
It follows the young Kiwi 19-year-old trailblazer, Matt Fairbrother, as he participates in the multistage enduro event The New Zealand Mountain Bike Rally against 120 riders.
The film follows Fairbrother as he chooses a different approach to the race, competing in a league of his own in his entirely signature unsupported style, fuelled by a penchant for chocolate milk and a “can do” attitude over the gruelling six-day schedule.
“Matt is known for doing things differently,” Cotter said.
“This mind-blowingly awesome film not only showcases Matt’s grit, determination, and resilience over the 27 downhill enduro race stages, there’s also the additional 500km cycling that he did between the stages carrying his own kit, eating what he carried, sleeping rough in a bivy, kayaking 50km across the ocean, and grinding up 18,000 extra vertical metres to get to the finish line.
“This human-powered adventure is epic in every sense.”
Also in the treasure chest of films are: an exhilarating film that redefines what’s possible on a gravel bike on technically challenging terrains; an inspiring mountain bike ride through back country in Queenstown, New Zealand, that is both poetic and meaningful; an uplifting film that follows a group of adventurers who gather to cycle from town out to the local ski field and back; and a film on a life-changing experience for a group of friends who undertake a trip to a bothie (hut) in the Scottish Highlands to show what can be achieved by people with disabilities in relation to having adventures.
“The power of storytelling is at the forefront of what we offer, and the belief that a bike is more than two-wheels, it can be whatever you want to be,” Cotter said.
“It can help improve our health and inspire and uplift people with where it can take us.
“It’s a real honour connecting communities with stories that captivate us, move us, and most importantly of all, inspire us to get out and ride.”
The Big Bike Film Night screens at the Avoca Beach Theatre on Friday, September 5 at 7pm.
For more information and to buy tickets visit www.bigbikefilmnight.nz
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