A local tradition since 2006, the Bellingham Children’s Film Festival happens the weekend of March 29 & 30 with three film programs for children and people just like them. All tickets are $5.
Saturday and Sunday, 10:00 A.M.
For the Littles, age 5+
Little Kid Flicks, from the New York International Children’s Film Festival
The Bellingham Children’s Film Festival joins over 100 arts organizations across the country to screen short film programs from one of the top American children’s film festivals. Six animated films from five different countries will put the squee into kids from pre-school upwards as fish, mice, insects, cats, pigs, cows, and various other beasts navigate the world in a program that lasts a little over one hour.
Pufferfish (Kugelfisch), Germany, Animation, Julia Ocker, 2022, 4 min, Nodialogue
Forever Seven , (Fürimmer Sieben), Germany,Animation, Antje Heyn & Alexander Isert, 2024, 9 min, in English
Coquille, France, Animation, Multiple directors, 2023, 6 min, Nodialogue
My name is Edgar and I Have a Cow , (Jmenujuse Edgar a mam kravu),Czech Republic, Slovakia, Animation, Filip Diviak,2023, 8 min, in Czech; in Slovak; with English subtitles
Hoofs on Skates , (Kanoposir pačiūžos), Lithuania, Animation, Ignas Meilūnas, 2024, 12 min,
No dialogue
Tabby McTat , United Kingdom, Animation, Jac Hamman & Sarah Scrimgeour, 2022, 25 min, in English
Saturday, 11:45 A.M.
Ages 10+ (due to language)
Bookworm, New Zealand, Live action, Ant Timpson, 2024, 1 hr. 43minutes, in English
Featuring Elijah Wood, Bookworm conjures some of the cheeky wilderness misadventure of Hunt For The Wilderpeople along with Matilda’s attitude and cartoonish baddies.
Eleven-year-old Mildred’s life is turned upside down when her mother lands in hospital and estranged, American magician father, Strawn Wise, comes to look after her. Hoping to entertain the bookish tween, Strawn takes Mildred camping in the notoriously rugged New Zealand wilderness, and the pair embark on the ultimate test of family bonding – a quest to find the mythological beast known as the Canterbury Panther.
Sunday, 11:45 A.M.
Ages 7+
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, British, animated, Merlin Crossingham and Nick Park, 2024, 79 minutes, in English, 2024, 79 minutes
Aardman's four-time Academy Award-winning director Nick Park and Emmy Award-nominated Merlin Crossingham return with a brand new epic adventure. In this next installment, Gromit's concern that Wallace is becoming too dependent on his inventions proves justified, when Wallace invents a "smart" gnome that seems to develop a mind of its own. When it emerges that a vengeful figure from the past might be masterminding things, it falls to Gromit to battle sinister forces and save his master... or Wallace may never be able to invent again. Here is the chance for non-streamers to see this great family comedy on the big screen!
