Scrapper | | BELLINGEN FILM LOVERS | |Georgie is a 12-year-old from the outskirts of London. Funny, gobby and resourceful, Georgie decides to live on her own after her mum dies, and she’s doing a good job of convincing the world and herself that she’s coping.
SPECIAL EVENT: The Musical Mind: A Portrait in Process | | BELLINGEN FILM LOVERS | |Sparked by the 25th anniversary of the Academy award-winning blockbuster Shine, this vivid theatrical film explores the power of the musical brain. Featuring exclusive, intimate footage of super-star international musicians in their private worlds, it opens an intriguing portal into the musical mind.
Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) | | BELLINGEN FILM LOVERS | |“They were as cavalier as we were. I liked that!” – Robert Plant, Led ZeppelinAnton Corbijn’s first feature documentary tells the story of Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell, the creative geniuses behind the iconic album art design studio, Hipgnosis, responsible for some of the most recognisable album covers of all time.
The Man In The Hat | | BELLINGEN FILM LOVERS | |The Man In The Hat sets off from Marseilles in a small Fiat 500. On the seat beside him is a framed photograph of an unknown woman. Behind him is a Citroen 2CV into which are squeezed Five Bald Men. Why are they chasing him? And how can he shake them off?
Whale Nation | | BELLINGEN FILM LOVERS | |A humpback whale is beached on a remote shore. During the fight to save its life, we will discover the story of these extraordinary creatures, denizens of the world’s oceans.
Léon: The Professional | | BELLINGEN FILM LOVERS | |12-year-old Mathilda (Natalie Portman in her debut role) is reluctantly taken in by Léon (a career-best performance by Jean Reno), a professional assassin, after her family is murdered. An unusual relationship forms as she becomes his protégée and learns the assassin's trade.
The Fifth Element | | BELLINGEN FILM LOVERS | |In the 23rd century, New York cabbie Korbin Dallas finds the fate of the world in his hands when the mysterious Leeloo (Milla Jovovich in an iconic performance, and outfit) falls into his cab.
SPECIAL EVENT: Beats + Acid House Rave Party | | BELLINGEN FILM LOVERS | |Two best friends in a small Scottish town in the summer of '94 who head out for one last night together before life takes them in different directions. Going to an illegal rave, the boys journey into an underworld of anarchy, freedom and collision with the law as they share a night that they will never forget.
Acid House Rave Party | | BELLINGEN FILM LOVERS | |Following Beats, join us for a nostalgia-filled 90s rave, featuring DJ Coco Varma and DJ Phillage, at Studio BMH (the new multi-purpose studio space at the rear of Bellingen Memorial Hall).
Subway | | BELLINGEN FILM LOVERS | |On improvising a burglary at a shady tycoon's home, Fred takes refuge in the hip and surreal universe of the Paris Métro and encounters its assorted denizens, the tycoon's henchmen and his disenchanted young wife.
The Big Blue | | BELLINGEN FILM LOVERS | |A tale of friendship and romance, The Big Blue follows two friends and champion divers in a friendship spanning decades when even as boys in the late fifties, Jacques Mayol and Enzo Molinari, would vie to set a deep-sea diving records.
The Iron Giant | | BELLINGEN FILM LOVERS | |In this animated adaptation of Ted Hughes' Cold War fable, a giant alien robot (Vin Diesel) crash-lands near the small town of Rockwell, Maine, in 1957. Exploring the area, a local 9-year-old boy, Hogarth, discovers the robot, and soon forms an unlikely friendship with him.
When Evil Lurks | | BELLINGEN FILM LOVERS | |A wildly original take on satanic panic, When Evil Lurks serves up a series of finely tuned scares and grotesque nightmare imagery.