Santa Monica Film Festival (2025)

Santa Monica Film Festival (2025)

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Santa Monica Film Festival (2025)
  • Necro 101
    Movie + 1 extra

    Necro 101

    Movie + 1 extra

    When Daisy enrolls in an easy elective class, she learns her mentor has been using dark magic to aid one family in an ongoing mob turf war. And the turf war is all about one thing: sauce.

  • Immortal Reflections

    Movie

    Immortal Reflections is a hauntingly atmospheric film that explores the delicate intersection of life, death, and the obsessions that shape our perceptions of both. At the heart of the story is a photographer, grappling with her deep-seated fear of death, who becomes consumed by the eerie practic...

  • Sterile

    Movie

    Somewhere in the 90s, with the millennium bug announcing the end of times, a deeply religious family believes that its youngest member carries in her womb the seed that will culminate with the second coming of Jesus Christ.
    On the last day of her pregnancy, the unthinkable happens.

  • Don't Forget Me

    Movie

    The film Don’t Forget Me chronicles the struggles of a small-town woman grappling with her child's organ failure, exhausting all efforts to fight for her child's survival. Concurrently, a young delinquent, confronted with the profound questions of existence after his mother's brain death, resolve...

  • The Errand Boy

    Movie

    A desperate man agrees to run errands that range from mundane to dangerous, to help his dying sister receive the medical care she needs to live.

  • The Platinum Loop

    In 1973, two grifters embark on a twisted odyssey to sell a legendary piece of film showing Marilyn Monroe as the world has never seen her. Based on the acclaimed novel by Austin Williams, this gritty comedic thriller delivers a fast-paced plot loaded with memorably warped characters, narrow esca...

  • Growing Pains

    Movie

    Two childhood best friends, Zoe and Nat, face the tumultuous changes of transitioning from middle to high school as their friendship drifts apart. Zoe, a cancer survivor, joins the crew team which exacerbates her body image & mental health struggles. Nat battles with her sexuality and the expecta...

  • The Optimist

    Movie

    In the vibrant backdrop of Los Angeles, the intertwined lives of an influencer and a corporate happiness officer take a tumultuous turn as they each chase their ambitions.

  • Venus Effect

    Movie

    After a mysterious event, a small community of neighbors erupt into chaos as they suspect hostile aliens are invading.

  • Mourning Doctor Li Wenliang

    Movie

    After Chinese doctor Li Wenliang, the famous whistleblower, passed away from COVID-19, over 300 people gathered for a memorial in his honor at NYC's Central Park. No one anticipated that this spontaneously organized tribute would turn into such chaos...

  • Sorry

    Movie

    When the wrong dinner arrives 3 hours late, Ava coaches her reluctant best friend Claire through a grueling phone call for a refund. In a fight for the self-respect of women everywhere, Ava’s worldview is challenged as she pushes Claire to stand up for her basic right to the hummus she ordered.

  • Hidden Creek

    Movie

    We will follow the story of Jimmy, an old widower who starts to believe his family is trying to take everything out from under him. Although as he begins to have more and more mental episodes, he’ll begin to wonder where the sanity and the gaslight begin.

    HIDDEN CREEK presents a new modern angle...

  • Tennis, Oranges

    Movie

    A robotic vacuum suffering from burnout quits its job at a hospital and sets out to find community and a greater purpose on a quiet street where two lonely rabbits are stuck in perpetual loops.

  • The New Ark

    Movie

  • Darcines Day

    Movie

    A short film about a woman searching for a job, a home, and a meal, only to go unseen in the City Of Angels.

  • The Runner

    Movie

    An ambitious Production Assistant fights to survive a stressful day on set.

  • This Werewolf Complex

    A moving image and sound portrait of the aura; seizures in focused parts of the brain that result in sensory, physical and emotional disturbances, sometimes acting as warnings for convulsive seizures that may occur. Told through the voices of individuals who experience this phenomena, the film pr...

  • Loaded for Bear

    Movie

    After leaving his job and suing his boss for discrimination, a tired old man just wants revenge. His plan? To make a movie about his boss with the settlement money and with the help of his only friends, a group of IDD artists and a young film student named Dexter.

  • The Delicate Cycle
    Movie + 1 extra

    The Delicate Cycle

    Movie + 1 extra

    A boy on the cusp of adolescence visits a laundromat at 6am where he used to play video games with his father. There he befriends Lance, a disheveled stranger full of surprises.

  • The Therapy

    Movie

    Eccentric psychologist, Elisaveta Petrova, has hidden love of painting but her childhood trauma inhibits her from pursuing a career in the arts. Resentful to turning her back on her dream she tries to cure her own fears by devising experimental therapy sessions with other blocked artists but her ...

  • Hollow

    Movie

    A girl discovers her lover is really––truly––empty inside.

  • Ninety Minutes Later

    Movie

    A feature length documentary about actor Vanessa Marquez, who was shot and killed in her home by police during a 90-minute long wellness check. Marquez, who suffered from both physical and mental illnesses was best known for the television series ER, and her breakout role as Ana Delgado in the 19...

  • Unsung

    Movie

    UNSUNG offers a backstage pass into the world of musicians teetering on the brink of success. This compelling docuseries follows the trials and tribulations of emerging artists within their vibrant hometown music scenes — capturing the essence of what it means to put it all on the line for a chan...

  • The Bad Boy of Gospel Experience

    Movie