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08-10.05.2026 Bike festival "PAVÈ, Pedalando a Venezia"

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FRIDAY 8 MAY 2026
Screening of the film ‘Les chants des forêts’
Part of the ‘PAVÈ - Venice Bike Festival’
6.00 pm Auditorium M9 - Museo del '900, Via G. Pascoli 11, Mestre
==> Event part of the Europe Day celebrations in Venice 2026
Free admission upon booking

FRIDAY 8 – SUNDAY 10 MAY 2026
Visual installation of ‘Il canto del ghiaccio’
Part of the ‘PAVÈ - Venice Bike Festival’
10am–7pm Foyer M9 - Museo del '900, Via G. Pascoli 11, Mestre
==> Event part of the Europe Day celebrations in Venice 2026
Free admission

From 8 to 11 May 2026, "Pavè - Pedalando a Venezia" will take place: this storytelling bike festival, now in its fifth year, creates a community space to reflect together on the times we live in and imagine new worlds.
With talks, films and a photographic installation, for the fifth year running Pavè creates a community space to reflect on the times we live in and imagine new worlds. Cycle along the spectacular gravel rides around the Venice Lagoon.

The ‘PAVÈ, Pedalando a Venezia’ bike festival is conceived and organised by La Velostazione Venezia, in collaboration withM9-Museum of '900 and Veneto Land of Venice, under the patronage of the Veneto Region, the IUAV University of Venice, Le città in festa of the City of Venice, Europe Direct Venezia Veneto of the City of Venice, Caorle Venezia, FIAB Federazione Italiana Ambiente e Bicicletta (Italian Federation for the Environment and Cycling). The event venues are the auditorium of the M9 Museo del ‘900 on Friday and Saturday, and San Giuliano Park on Sunday, where the Pavè Village will be set up for the start of the gravel rides and the Bike Polo demonstration.

PAVÈ 2026 FULL PROGRAMME

Events at the “PAVÈ, cycling in Venice” bike festival, in collaboration with Europe Direct Venezia Veneto of the City of Venice:

=> Friday 8 May at 6.00 pm, M9 – Museum of the 20th Century

Screening of the film ‘Les chants des forêts’ (Finland | 2025 | 95 mins), directed by Vincent Munier: set in the forests of the Vosges, this documentary is a visual and sensory journey into nature.
Lynxes, bears, deer, owls and capercaillies become part of a silent yet powerful world, where every sound seems to hold ancient wisdom.
Munier does not merely explore the wild beauty of the landscape: his is a true meditation on time, memory and the passing on of knowledge between generations. Through a simple yet deeply emotional narrative, the director weaves together three perspectives: his own, that of his father Michel, and that of his twelve-year-old son Simon. Together, the three spend their days in a cabin deep in the woods, lit only by the warm glow of candles, where the father’s stories become lessons for his grandson and memories. The snow-covered landscapes become vast, open expanses of white; mist envelops the dark pines; every image is crafted with an almost painterly care.

The search for the capercaillie, an elusive and symbolic creature, drives the entire narrative. It serves as a narrative pretext sufficient to give meaning and direction to a work that is, above all, contemplation, listening and a profound connection with the natural world. An experience of rare intensity, where the landscape becomes a silent teacher, guardian of a wisdom that spans generations and reminds us, without rhetoric, how subtle yet essential the bonds are that unite us to the earth and to one another.

Free entry upon booking

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See the trailer of the film here

=> 8–10 May, 10.00–19.00, Foyer of M9 – Museum of the 20th Century

Visual installation of “Il canto del ghiaccio” (Italy | 2025 | 8 min) curated by Paolo Ghisu and Stefano Collizzolli: Il Canto del Ghiaccio is a long-term documentary project that observes and listens to the melting of the Làres Glacier in Trentino, in the Adamello range. Dozens of high-altitude ascents weaving together documentation, video footage, photography and sound. Three chapters, different ways of conveying this experience. A programme of events to share the story and turn it into action.
L’Estate del Làres is the first chapter of this story: a season on the glacier, condensed into a few minutes. A tribute to the beauty of what is already no more.
The installation is a short film on the visibility of time and the impermanence of the world: the melting ice is water that fell as snow thousands of years ago, fossil water disappearing at a dizzying pace. And air from a distant past that imperceptibly dissolves into that of the present.

Free Entry

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