2008 Maui Film Festival Archive

American banjo virtuoso Bela Fleck journeys to Uganda, Tanzania, The Gambia, and Mali on a boundary-breaking musical adventure that simultaneously explores the little known African roots of the banjo and the beauty and complexity of both Africa and its musical talent.  More...

From a mere technical point of view the tv/video screen comes alive by a controlled beam of electrons in the cathode ray tube. For 'Energie!' an uncontrolled high voltage discharge of approx. 30.000 volts exposes photographic paper which is then arranged in time to create new visual systems of electron organization. Even though the result is abstract it tells a universal story older than the world itself.  More...

Two years of work by the Maui-based Whale Trust Research Team provide the cornerstone for filmmaker Daniel Opitz's breathtaking documentary that unravels some of the mysteries surrounding the mystical songs and social lives of humpback whales on their Hawaiian breeding grounds.
Presented by Baccarat Wailea Resort and Residences, screening on Mokapu Beach in front of the Baccarat.  More...

The all pervading themes of love and betrayal coupled with the encompassing power of Mozart's brilliant score have given rise to a unique motion picture set during Mozart's 250th birthday celebration year that presents a world that is exotic, thrilling and beautiful.  More...

$10 IN ADVANCE. $12 AT THE DOOR, DAY OF SHOW ONLY
This ticket only includes 10pm showing of Before the Rains.  This film is included on the double feature ticket for The Great Buck Howard.

In this epic period drama with a sharp multicultural perspective, an idealistic British plantation-owner and his Indian right-hand man are caught up in a tragic, violent clash of their peoples.  More...

Could it be that street musicians are the best musicians in the world, precisely because they are motivated mainly by faith—the faith that music can change the world? So we discover in this globe-trotting doc, which carries a curb-side recording of Stand By Me to many lands, laying on audio-delicious overdubs. We meet a washboard-strummer in New Orleans (It'll take a bowl-doozer to drive me away from here), a saxophonist in dirt-shanty South Africa, Tibetans, Zuni, Manu Chao, Keb' Mo', all forming a grand choir that gets people dancing in their seats.  More...

More than 30 foreign musical artists, playing 15 seemingly unrelated instruments, are brought together by two Italian musicians in Rome intent on preventing their local theater from becoming a Bingo Hall in this uplifting fusion of voices and sounds from around the world.  More...