La bicicletta di Bartali

A featured film for Festival 2025

Bartali's Bicycle

English Title: Bartali's Bicycle
Director(s): Enrico Paolantonio
Production Year: 2024
Duration: 80 minutes
Genre: Animation
Language: Italian with English subtitles

This animated film tells two interconnected stories, one about the Italian cycling champion, Gino Bartali, who saved over 800 Jews during World War II by using his bicycle to smuggle documents for the Italian Resistance, the other about two modern-day teenagers in Jerusalem, David and Ibra, who share a passion for cycling and manage to overcome their communities’ prejudice.

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