Malibu Film Festival (2025)

Malibu Film Festival (2025)

Stream some of the official selections of the Malibu Film Festival, available exclusively on XOLO.TV from October 15–31. Discover powerful indie films from bold new voices — and help decide the winner! The film with the most views will receive the Audience Choice Award.

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Malibu Film Festival (2025)
  • Following in the Footsteps of my Ancestors

    Movie

    A personal documentary film by Ute Köhler about her family history. The filmmaker embarks on an extraordinary journey to retrace the emigration route of her ancestors, who emigrated from southern Germany to Galicia (present-day Poland) in the 18th century and later to Volhynia (Ukraine).
    The film...

  • Muffled Sounds

    Lalita stumbles back to her chaotic apartment after a night out, only to be suffocated by the walls closing in—their thin barriers unable to block out the passionate noises of her neighbors or the deafening silence of her failing relationship. As she wrestles with small, maddening frustrations, t...

  • Free Bird

    Movie

    FREE BIRD follows a millennial woman living in Philadelphia as she approaches her 30s and experiences a second coming-of-age, navigating the changing expectations she has for herself.

    Kate is a millennial woman who loves her partner, her dog, and the life they've built together. She cherishes he...

  • NaNi
    Movie

    NaNi

    Movie

    As Ramadan draws to a close, a young woman returns home, stirring up buried tensions and unspoken truths that refuse to stay in the past.

  • New Horizons

    Movie

    A Sci-Fi Drama that follows Johnny Dawson, a professional gamer. In an experimental VR couples therapy lab, he waits somewhat patiently for his wife, Katelyn, only for her not to show up. His therapist, Doctor Murray, offers a solution to move forward without her. Eager to start the session, John...

  • Patriot

    Movie

    When ICE raids his high school, a student tries to help his girlfriend escape deportation.

  • Penelope!

    Movie

    At the twilight of the Civil War -and after years of keeping her house ready for her husband’s return- Penelope is finally able to greet her beloved –just not in the way she planned. As a night of terror unfolds, our Southern Belle is forced to come face-to-face with the cost of the promise she k...

  • Rising, Rooted, and Resilient

    In Detroit's North End, food sovereignty isn't just an idea – it's growing seven acres strong. In this documentary, journey inside the Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network (DBCFSN), where farming isn't just about feeding people; it's about nurturing independence.

  • Secluded

    Movie

    Disturbing incidents begin to interfere with Jake's new house-sitting job. With the phone not working and no one else nearby in these secluded hills, Jake starts to suspect that he is either in danger or losing his sanity.

  • Land and Heart

    Corbin Scholz is a young female farmer in Iowa, building a life rooted in community, care, and sustainable agriculture. From launching her own CSA to navigating the male-dominated world of farming, her journey reflects the strength and resilience it takes to grow food—and find belonging—in rural ...

  • The Prospect

    Movie

    When high school senior Jerry Vanetti gets rejected from every college he applied to, he hatches a scheme to pose as an elite baseball prospect in order to trick a school into giving him an athletic scholarship...despite the fact that he's never played a sport in his life. From bribing the AV Clu...

  • The Gap

    A polite lunch spirals when a fiancé dares to challenge the values of his bride-to-be's family.

  • Death in The Desert

    A wayward soul strikes an unlikely friendship with a divine entity

  • We Regret to Inform You

    Movie

    Set in a dystopian near future where everyone is provided with a 24-hour warning before their death by the government, Mariam receives such a call from Bob, a real-life operator that is on his first day on the job, informing her of her final day.

  • The Legend of William Boucher

    Movie

    The legend of William Boucher is a tale of vengeance.. He returns to New Orleans to find out that his beloved twin sister, Whisper, has been killed. Seeking vengeance, he embarks on a killing spree and, through a curse, is compelled to return to Earth to get his revenge.

  • Point Washington Outlaws

    From cowboys to drug dealers to real estate tycoons, see how 4 real life characters tell the story of how Point Washington, Florida became the pristine place that it is today.

  • Human Resource

    A desperate HR manager will do anything to save her staff from termination during a brutal hostile takeover.

  • Turpentine

    Movie

    Two estranged siblings must part with the house that holds their shared past.

  • White Privilege

    Movie

    News reporter Marcus Conte flips the lid on WHITE PRIVILEGE. Conte, who was racially attacked by a security officer while investigating COVID-19 morgue trucks behind a Hospital, takes the Hospital to court. As the city spirals into racial violence and masked-hysteria, Conte is ordered to “Get you...

  • The Intention Invention

    Movie

  • The Hole Truth

    After cleaning up Jonah's Birthday Party, mom Natalie and her friend Amy, collapse into the couch where they confess that since childbirth, both have experienced terrible hemorrhoids. Natalie’s are back and so bad that she’s certain she needs surgery. The ladies decide (after a thorough inspectio...

  • 3, 2, 1, 0

    Three best friends, Gyu-bin, Yu-hyeok, and Dong-hyun, get stranded on a deserted island after an accident during their trip.
    The three of them stay positive and work together to survive.
    But gradually, they start to keep an eye on each other.

    절친 '규빈', '유혁', '동현' 셋은 여행 중 사고를 당해 무인도에 조난을 당한다.
    세명은 ...

  • Santa Catalina

    Movie

    In a near-future, a brief AI-tech outage becomes a rare window for a grandfather and granddaughter to slip away from the noise and sail to a quiet island. As the world’s machines fall silent, they reconnect with the simple joys of life and the natural world, each seeing it through their own gener...

  • Across the Blue Line

    Movie

    Retired police officer Marvin Johnson is a law biding citizen. But when his goddaughter goes missing and the system he swore an oath to fails to help him. He decides to take matters into his own hands.