The Bike Thief

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"An affecting snapshot of a family doing their best to get by

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SCREEN DAILY
  • Archive - Festival 37
  • Director: Matt Chambers
  • United Kingdom 2020
  • 79 minutes
  • English
  • Subtitles in Hebrew

To the Rider his moped is everything. As a pizza delivery man, it is his livelihood. As a breadline straddling, immigrant father it is his family's anchor. It takes his wife to work. It gets his daughter to school. So when one night the moped is stolen, his world collapses. He has to get back his bike - or replace it - in whatever way possible, before his next shifts starts. If he fails, he won't just lose his job, he will lose it all.

Matt Chambers’ feature debut is a gripping drama-thriller, with an excellent performance by Alec Secareanu. The film tells a perceptive story about surviving in an unforgiving world amid the complexities of the current immigrant experience.

Feature Debut


  • Director Matt Chambers
  • Production Lene Bausager, Sophia Gibber, Peregrine Kitchener-Fellowes
  • Script Matt Chambers
  • Cinematography Nanu Segal
  • Editing Tommaso Gallone, Dan Roberts
  • Music Graham Hastings
  • Festivals Tokyo
  • Actors Alec Secareanu, Anamaria Marinca, Alexia Maria Proca, Lucian Msamati, Aaron Neil
  • Source Beta Cinema, Munich