Dir. Andrea Martínez Crowther Mexico/Canada, 2013 Spanish with English subtitles 133 min
Pachuca, 1956. Brothers Arturo and Gustavo Martínez leave their hometown in central Mexico with the desire to cross the continent on bicycles. Eighty-two days and 5,600 km later, they arrive in Toronto, not knowing that this journey will change the entire route of their lives. Ever since director Andrea Martínez Crowther can remember, stories of her father and uncle’s trip have formed part of her family’s folklore. Over half a century later, Arturo and Gustavo – now in their 70s – retrace that epic path, in an exploration of memory, the cycles of life and the unavoidable passage of time.
“When I was a little girl, I thought it was pretty normal to have a Dad who had travelled from Mexico to Canada on bicycle. Doesn’t everyone have one of those?” – Andrea Martínez Crowther, interviewed by François Levesque, Apartment613
CICLO was named Audience Favourite at VLAFF 2013!
This film is part of National Canadian Film Day 2026, an annual one-day event celebrating Canadian cinema from coast-to-coast featuring thousands of independent screenings worldwide.
Andrea Martínez Crowther recently leapt out of her comfort zone as a feature film director in Mexico City to move to Toronto and sort of start from scratch. She has directed four feature films. The first, INSIGNIFICANT THINGS, was executive produced by Guillermo del Toro and participated in the Sundance Screenwriter’s Lab. It premiered at the San Sebastian Film Festival. She went on to direct the award-winning intimate documentary CICLO about her father’s bicycle journey from Mexico to Canada. After that came OBSERVAR LAS AVES about a writer who decides to say farewell to life through a movie, winning the People’s Choice Award at the Los Cabos Film Festival. Her most recent film, TARE, stars renowned Mexican actor Tenoch Huerta (Narcos, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) and is in post-production. Andrea is currently developing the romantic comedy SMITTEN as well as THE SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS, her first venture in the world of Web Series -well, if you don’t count her self-produced web series LA HISTORIA DEL GALLO about her restaurant Gallo Güero, as a way of helping it survive the pandemic. (It didn’t but at least she has a series to show for it). Andrea is a member of the DGC and alumna of WIDC. Bio from WIDC.
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