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The Cine Móvil Toto van, lettered Toda la gente, todos los lugares, parked on grass with equipment mounted on its roof
Photo: Once Noticias (oncenoticias.digital) — via oncenoticias.digital

Cine Móvil Toto

Mexico, Mexico City · Nonprofit association

Active last verified 2026-09
Topology not documented
4 bicycles + solar-panel vanDocumented

Websitehttps://cinemoviltoto.mx

Cine Móvil Toto screens films in rural Mexico from a hybrid rig of four stationary bicycles plus a solar-panel van, with no battery. Founded in late 2012, it reached more than 1,000 communities and 150,000 spectators in a decade, and ran its fourth Girando por el norte tour in 2025.

Key facts

  • Fleet

    4 bicycles + solar-panel van1

    Documented

  • Founded

    Late 20121,2

    Documented

  • Reach

    >1,000 communities, >150,000 spectators in a decade1

    Documented

  • Monitoring

    Traffic-light ('semáforo') charge indicator1

    Documented

“si las cuatro se detienen podrían quedarse sin audio y sin blu-ray o proyector… tienen un semáforo que les explica qué tan descargado está el sistema… en el color azul es el más crítico y la gente debe pedalear.”

If all four stop, they could lose audio and the Blu-ray player or projector… they have a traffic light that shows how depleted the system is… blue is the most critical colour, and people need to pedal.

Once Noticias (Mexico public TV)1

Cine Móvil Toto is a Mexican nonprofit association that public television describes as youth-led outreach to rural areas without access to cinema. Four stationary bicycles and a solar panel together generate the electricity for projector, disc player and sound, and a traffic-light indicator shows the audience how depleted the system is. The fourth Girando por el norte tour, February–June 2025, is the most recent activity documented.

Specifications

What do these labels mean?

FieldValueConfidenceSources
Fleet4 bicycles + 1 solar-panel vanDocumented1
Battery useBattery-free ethosDocumented1,2
MonitoringTraffic-light ('semáforo') indicator of system charge stateDocumented1
Electrical topologynot disclosedRectification, any buffering stage, and output voltage are not published.Not disclosed1
Reach (decade total)>1,000 communities, >150,000 spectatorsDocumented1
Data card summarising Cine Móvil Toto's decade of rural screenings and its 2025 northern tour
Over 1,000 communities and over 150,000 spectators in a decade; fourth northern tour Feb–Jun 20251,2 Image: BicycleCinema.org, drawn from the research corpus
Map of Mexico with an active-status badge for Cine Móvil Toto
Mexico1,2 Image: BicycleCinema.org, drawn from the research corpus

Sources

  1. [1]Once Noticias, 01/03/2023oncenoticias.digital
  2. [2]Secretaría de Cultura México, 2025www.gob.mx

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