CicloCinema

CicloCinema was founded by brothers Andrea and Federico Bertoldi, the latter described in 2018 press as an electronics engineer, and is run today by eleven volunteers ^4,6. Cargo bikes and trailers carry the cycle-generators, an inverter with battery, projector, sound system and screen between venues ¹. Its film programming draws partly on graduates of the Zelig documentary film school in Bolzano ⁴. In 2024 its more than twenty screenings included a first Balkan tour through northern Bosnia ¹⁰; the 2026 calendar reaches the Marche and Ticino ¹¹, and a Comune di Tolentino notice records the 2 August 2026 stop ².

Specifications

What do these labels mean?

Field	Value	Confidence	Sources
Fleet (2026)	8 cycle-generatorsIndependently confirmed by the Comune di Tolentino's notice for the 2 August 2026 tour stop; the stale English page still says ten.	Documented	^1,2
Fleet (2018 design)	10 bicycles / cycle-generators (8 pedalling, 2 for rider swaps)The website said "dieci biciclette" continuously from 2019 through a 16 March 2026 Wayback snapshot.	Documented	³
Event-level fleet variance	7 bikes (Cesiomaggiore, August 2025)Deployed pedal count varies by event; eight is the current stated fleet, not a universal constant. A Swiss partner still advertised ten bicycles for a September 2026 date.	Documented	⁷
Aggregate power claim (crowdfunding, 2018)	up to 3,000 W (10 generators)Research correction:Contemporaneous 2018 press covering the same ten-generator design said "up to 1,000 W" — a threefold internal inconsistency. No per-rider or total-demand figure has ever been published; treat both aggregate figures as promotional peak claims, not specifications.From the original 2018 crowdfunding page.	Promotional / press-reported — not verified	³
Aggregate power claim (press, 2018)	up to 1,000 W (10 generators)Research correction:Contradicts the crowdfunding page's own "up to 3,000 W" claim for the same ten-generator design; both figures are promotional and mutually inconsistent, and neither has ever been corroborated by a per-rider or total-demand figure.Vita Trentina's 2018 coverage of the same design.	Promotional / press-reported — not verified	⁶
Buffer	inverter with batteryCapacity and inverter output voltage are not published.	Documented	¹
Audience (2018 design target)	about 50 people	Documented	³
Audience (2023 average)	≈115 people per screening13 screenings, over 1,500 spectators total.	Documented	⁵
Audience claims of up to 300	not documentedFound in secondary material; no primary CicloCinema or press source states this figure. Documented audiences range from about 50 (2018 design target) to an average of ≈115 per screening (2023).	Uncertain	³

In their own words

"8 biciclette su 10 dovranno essere sempre in movimento per soddisfare la domanda energetica dell'iniziativa, mentre le restanti 2 serviranno come possibilità per darsi il cambio con il pubblico." — 8 bicycles out of 10 must always be in motion to satisfy the initiative's energy demand, while the remaining 2 will serve as an option for swapping with the audience. ³

"un'associazione culturale sulla carta e un gruppo di amici sulla strada" — a cultural association on paper, and a group of friends on the road ⁴

CicloCinema.org homepage hero screenshot: a dusk audience in deck chairs on a Trento street with a wall of cyclists pedalling on the right, and the site's overlaid title and calls to action — Screenshot: CicloCinema (ciclocinema.org) — via ciclocinema.org

Corrections and confidence notes

Two figures conflict between sources. Fleet: the 2018 crowdfunding page described ten bicycles and ten cycle-generators ³; the Italian website said "dieci biciclette" from 2019 through a Wayback Machine snapshot of 16 March 2026 and gave eight bicycles, eight cycle-generators and eight trailers by June 2026 ², while the English-language page still says ten ⁸; deployed counts also vary by event, with seven bikes at Cesiomaggiore in August 2025 ⁷ and ten advertised by a Swiss touring partner for a September 2026 date ⁹. Power: the same crowdfunding page said the ten generators would produce up to 3,000 W ³ and 2018 press on the same design said up to 1,000 W ⁶; no per-rider or total-demand figure has been published since.