The Neistat Brothers, Michaël Dudok de Wit, Andrea Dorfman, Tomer Shushan, Lucas Brunelle, Steven Subotnick, Nash Edgerton, M. A. Numminen and other filmmakers and artists contributed to the ICFF.

The laudatory for the Goldene Kurbel in these years was Frank Hörner, director of the Theater Kohlenpott, which is a children and youth theatre in the Flottmann-Hallen, Herne.

From then until now the festival takes place at the Flottmann-Hallen, a former machine-tool factory, which was transformed into a cultural centre for Herne following its closure in 1983.

Due to this new cooperation between Dutch, Polish and German festival makers Groningen became an additional venue off the ICFF.

As a result, the German Film Heritage Foundation Murnau Stiftung was found as the fifth fixed venue of the ICFF.

[12] The award is chosen by a jury of local film, bicycle and art experts who are also in charge for the official selection of the festival program.

Things are sporty in Polotubbieland: dressed in Polish national colours, its inhabitants skilfully do cartwheels or ride around on the road bike.

"Dirty migrants go home" chant right-wing polotubbie artists in the bitter ending of the touching experimental film.

The Goldene Kurbel of the 13th ICFF was given to Tigersprung (Tiger leap), a film by Boaz Kaizman, Peter Rosenthal and Stefan Seibert about Albert Richter, 1932 amateur world champion on the track, murdered in 1940 by the German secret police Gestapo.

The Goldene Kurbel of the 11th ICFF was given to Cycologic, a documentary about the power of women on bikes in Uganda, directed by Emilia Stålhammar, Veronica Pålsson and Elsa Lövdin, Sweden.

The film was shot in Kampala, Uganda, in an absurd mess of mini vans and lorries; in this particular traffic the bicycle appears as a statement of social justice, equity and quality of life (not only) for African people.

The film focusses on the political work of Amanda Ngabirano and other women for the creation of car free zones and bike lanes as well their promotion of women in cycling: “Seeing a woman riding a bicycle should not be seen as a sign of courage and fearlessness, but rather a sign of safe streets; and that should be the focus of the planning authorities”, so Amanda.

Wytse Koetse's touching documentary shows Frans’ 90 years old workshop transforming the big city of Amsterdam into a village, where people need their bikes fixed for their daily life, they meet and provide mutual support.

[15] His short shows an evening in the live of a professional cycle rickshaw driver, the friendly contacts with passersby, street musicians, colleagues, but also by the demanding fight against gravity, physical pain and nasty passengers.

[17][18] The metaphorical and touching film tells the story of a young girl, beginning with the goodbye of her father who leaves in a small boat.

The festival jury was positive about the amazing expressivity of Catherine Marshall's playing act bicycles, which was needed for the tragicomical love story of her film.

His film Rad (English title: Wheel) is a short about a bizarre cycling trip under time pressure and against bicycle-specific obstacles: men, dogs, bike chains.

The 2008 prize winner was the movie maker Mike Tereba from Luxembourg for his contribution Psyclist, a gloomy feature film dedicated to a cyclist who was killed in a bicycle accident.

[20] Winners of the Goldene Kurbel in previous years were the German movie maker Sören Büngener for his film A Look in the Mirror in 2007;[21] a year earlier, in 2006, the Goldene Kurbel was awarded to the Austrian/German artists Sylvia Winkler und Stephan Köperl and their film doored in downtown.

[22] The Grand Prize of the Jury was introduced as a special film award for the runner-up to the Goldene Kurbel at the 12th ICFF in Herne, 2017.

The first Souvenir Albert Richter is won by the Belgian filmmaker Jasmijn Cedee for her experimental film "Toer".

The sporting "Competition Stefan Götz" marks the end of each German edition of the International Cycling Film Festival.

In the first few years of the festival the Competition Stefan Götz took the form of an individual and team time trial over about 20 km, which was open to both audience and movie makers.

2019: Magnus Fischer, master of bicycle mechanics, Hildesheim 2018: Boris Weidtmann, Duisburg 2017: Christoph Lotz, lawyer, Bochum 2016: Philipp Todtberg, carpentry student, Dortmund 2015: Uwe Hermesmeier, board member ADFC Mönchengladbach, Mönchengladbach 2014 and 2013: Axel Rickel, bicycle salesman, Dortmund 2012: Pierre Cournoyer, performing artist at Roomservice, Herne 2011: Bike Polo Team "Champagneros", Duisburg 2009: Gernot Mühge, founding director of the ICFF, Bochum 2008: Thomas Wisiolek, amateur cyclist 2007: Rolf Trovato, amateur cyclist 2006: Holger Zepper, movie maker Beside the fixed venues the ICFF gives numerous guest performances all over Europe.

In 2017 guest performances take place in several cities in Germany (Munich, Mainz, Wiesbaden, Hattingen and others), in France (Lille, Roubaix), in the Netherlands (Amersfoort), in Poland (Katowice and others) and in Belarus (Minsk).