Malibu Film Festival (2024)

Malibu Film Festival (2024)

Streaming May 26 to May 31

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Malibu Film Festival (2024)
  • Just Passing Time

    Movie

    Just pass time -- it’s what we all do in the dating game until we stop fucking around. This short film encapsulates the circuitous nature of dating people who don’t know what they want, while you yourself don’t know what you want.

    Just Passing Time is about that moment when you realize that you ...

  • [INSERT SHORT FILM TITLE]

    In the mind of every filmmaker, there are two wolves locked in an epic, eternal, and fierce battle for control and influence.

    The combatants? The analytical left brain and the whimsical right. [INSERT SHORT FILM TITLE] personifies these cerebral hemispheres in the monumentally (or at least margi...

  • Standing On Water
    Movie + 1 extra

    Standing On Water

    Movie + 1 extra

    The film profiles Christophe by showing the convergence of him living life with a rare form of dwarfism and his love for surfing. Christophe shares how his height, 4’4”, and his many operations have affected his life and how surfing has become a major source of confidence.

    Shot on a stunning Cal...

  • And that’s for this Christmas

    Movie

    While preparing the details for his own funeral, an elderly man realises that he will be celebrating Christmas alone. Unable to fall asleep, he decides to spend the holiday at the grave of his deceased wife.

  • Chauncey

    Movie

    Zoe is afraid to introduce her new boyfriend to her old stuffed animal, Chauncey.

  • Before I go

    A psychological drama that follows Emily, a once vibrant and beautiful woman, as she confronts her ex-boyfriend for the first time since he sold her into sex-trafficking years prior. As their conversation unfolds, we peel back the layers of their characters as they wrestle with their fragmented p...

  • Slobopoly
    Movie + 1 extra

    Slobopoly

    Movie + 1 extra

    When a grumpy hermit is bribed to run for mayor of a rural town, she comes out of her shell to protect her trailer park from impending destruction.

  • Sentence

    Movie

    Only few tenacious human writers (Brian, Edward, and Alice) remain in the realm of creation while flawlessly beautiful sentences created by Athena (AI writer) bombard human writers every minute. Now, human writers must decide whether to soldier on and survive until death as writers or leave the r...

  • Asi Es La vida

    Movie

    Danny has the worst day of his life at school. His uncles come over to console him with stories of their worst day.

  • In C, Too

    Movie

    "In C, Too" illuminates how close our dreams are to a common reality. Through structured visual improvisational techniques, the work explores how humanity survives because of our imagination and desire to transcend. "In C, Too" is also an origin story, operating in renunciation to mortality, focu...

  • Good Bad Luck

    Movie

    On the brink of Christmas Day of 1984, Polish mobster Vladek Kozlowsky goes on the venture of a personal vendetta. Suspecting his wife of cheating, he brings the alleged lover, Andrew George, to a mountain forest for retribution. Here, in the best tradition of the comedy genre, things don’t go ac...

  • Epidemic Of Fraud
    Movie + 1 extra

    Epidemic Of Fraud

    Movie + 1 extra

    Epidemic of Fraud explores the bizarre media, medical, and partisan political attacks levied against a class of ancient medications, told from the perspective of a former CNN journalist and Hollywood industry veteran. Why were the people who allowed the opiate disaster to go unchecked so eager to...

  • Atlas Shrugged: A Book Trailer for Ayn Rand's Masterpiece

    Movie

    This short film is an AI anime trailer for Ayn Rand's novel, Atlas Shrugged. From the perspective of Dagny Taggart, female railroad executive and the main protagonist of the novel, we see a world crumbling around her as she embarks on a mission to find the man behind the destruction... and stop h...

  • Imposter
    1 season

    Imposter

    1 season

    A down-on-her-luck painter, desperate to get noticed, steals an outrageous idea from her ex-boyfriend and turns it into an extra feminist performance art piece that makes her go viral for all the wrong reasons.

  • The Dog Days

    Movie

    Summer in the suburbs. Loveless marriage, a gilded cage. Joyful innocence, unbridled potential. Slow surrender to middle-age, retreat and regret. Tails wag, sharp tongues devastate. Wonderful, terrible, miraculous, disastrous life leaves no heart intact. Through it all, ball keeps turning, we kee...

  • Over the Mooon!

    Movie

    A man falls in love with a cow and turns her human.

    Directors - Sarah Healey, Jaclyn Jasgur
    Sarah and Jaclyn both moved to LA fresh out of high school. Since then, they have obtained a wealth of knowledge of the film industry both in front of the camera and behind. Jaclyn has appeared on network...

  • An Open Door - Temple Grandin

    Movie

    An Open Door is the international award-winning documentary that reflects on the influential life and work of Dr. Temple Grandin as a champion of the humane treatment of livestock, autism rights, and inclusive neurodiversity by employing her gifted insights from her personal experience with autis...

  • Park Ten Players

    Movie

    Set in the Texas suburbs, youth and ambition collide with the reality of adulthood when a 25 year old woman is suddenly given the reins to the local community theatre. Park Ten Players is a mockumentary that asks if it’s more important to make good art, or have fun making art.

  • In Plane Sight

    Movie

    When they discover a bag of white powder on a plane, the cracks in a newly engaged couple’s relationship are forced wide open, in this tense and darkly bizarre story - with a twisted smile.

  • Nubbinwood

    Movie

    A beaver recounts his experiences as an actor following his dream to be in the movies.

  • Kite

    A man stands at the edge of a cliff staring at the void beneath. With nothing left to live for and only one thing left to lose he has
    a chance to meet with a little stranger who gives him hope and a reason to live.
    Kite tells the story of a friendship between a middle-aged foreigner and a little ...

  • The Serena Variations

    A young female violinist with undiagnosed autism spirals out of control as she works on a new opus with a domineering composer, embarking on a psychedelic journey that both pushes her to the edge of mental collapse and fuels her creative power.

  • Wabi-Sabi

    When an insecure, half Japanese woman's invited on a date to a traditional tea ceremony, her best friend's advice on how to avoid white-guys-with-Asian-fetishes threatens to ruin her love life and sanity.

    Director Biography
    Josephine Green Zhang is a comedy writer/director/sometimes performer fr...

  • Pirates of Malibu

    Movie

    "Pirates of Malibu" follows two estranged brothers, James and Jesse Ford, after a robbery under the cover of the Malibu fires. As the heat turns up, the brothers are forced to confront their scorched past.