The Thin Air Between

The Thin Air Between is a short documentary about a former professional cyclist. It follows him into high-altitude terrain, where the thin air becomes the setting for a personal reckoning with success and failure. The film is built around that tension rather than around race results, using the mountain environment as the backdrop for one rider's story.

Simon Hipkins directed the film and wrote the screenplay, and he also produced it through Key Pictures. The documentary runs 27 minutes, a length suited to a focused portrait rather than a broad survey of the sport. It was released on May 28, 2026.