2008 Maui Film Festival Archive

$20 IN ADVANCE. $24 AT THE DOOR, DAY OF SHOW ONLY
This film, which screens with One Water and Guardians of the Sea, is ticketed as a double feature program.  It also includes the 10pm screening of Bart Got a Room.

1/2 price tickets available for children 12 and under.

Take an intimate boat trip with some of the most influential surfers of our time, including Gerry Lopez, Laird Hamilton, Dave Kalama, Rob Machado and the Malloy brothers, as they venture into the heart of Indonesia and its hidden paradise of colossal barrels and perfect waves.  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...

Four films follow the last two polar bears, Harry and Bob, in search of love, a home, and food. Stars Harry Shearer (Spinal Tap) and Rip Torn(Larry Sanders Show) with Lucy Davis (The Office Ugly Betty) as the Panda.  More...

The personal story of a family's effort to help their son with autism. When the medical establishment has little to offer, they turn to a community of doctors and parents who are experimenting with treatments and helping some children. A Complimentary Screening Open to All.  More...

$20 IN ADVANCE. $24 AT THE DOOR, DAY OF SHOW ONLY
This film, which screens with One Water and Guardians of the Sea, is ticketed as a double feature program.  It also includes the 10pm screening of Bart Got a Room.

1/2 price tickets available for children 12 and under.

Take an intimate boat trip with some of the most influential surfers of our time, including Gerry Lopez, Laird Hamilton, Dave Kalama, Rob Machado and the Malloy brothers, as they venture into the heart of Indonesia and its hidden paradise of colossal barrels and perfect waves.  More...

The personal story of a family's effort to help their son with autism. When the medical establishment has little to offer, they turn to a community of doctors and parents who are experimenting with treatments and helping some children. A Complimentary Screening Open to All.  More...

Young men, brothers from Brooklyn, search for meaning in this perfectly sincere and pro-human documentary tale. Laden with their own emotional scars inflicted by an abusive father, they travel to places where human suffering far exceeds their own—among the homeless in Manhattan, at a Peruvian home for lost children, with HIV/AIDS sufferers in Ghana, and in an African leper colony. Without a whiff of preachiness or sentimentality, this extraordinary film reveals the dignity and resilience of the human spirit, the joy of living, and the value of suffering.  More...

True story: two teachers from The Vipassana Meditation Center in Shelburne, MA, moved into an Alabama maximum-security prison and offered the experience of a 10-day meditation ritual to the lifers. Three dozen hardened criminals accepted the challenge.  More...

Yoga is 5,000 years old but new to the West—and yet today some 20 thousand Americans practice yoga. One extraordinary soul led the way in this positive transmission—Swami Satchidananda, the Woodstock guru. Swami Satchidananda dedicated his life to the cause of peace—both individual and universal—and to unity and harmony among all people. This documentary looks at his life and at the history of yoga in the U.S. The host of yoga advocates speaking here includes Dr. Dean Ornish, artist Peter Max, and Larry King.  More...

Two young monks meditate, in the search for greater Cosmic Union. However, in their quest, they become increasingly aware of the othersí activities, jealously upping the stakes in order to be the ìmost enlightenedî. Before they know it, they are embroiled in an all out Enlightenment Competition.  More...

$20 IN ADVANCE. $24 AT THE DOOR, DAY OF SHOW ONLY
Your ticket to this double feature program includes "MAKANA LIVE IN CONCERT" AT 7:00 PM, as well as the 10pm screening of Encounters at the End of the World, and Super High Me.

1/2 price tickets available for children 12 and under.

A globetrotting, spectacular surf epic that sets Kelly Slater’s quest for an eighth world men’s tour title amidst an exploration of the ways surfers seek the bliss of their sport.  More...

The complex and beautiful Maya hieroglyphic script was the world's last major un-deciphered writing system. This detective story about the quest to decode the script has been called one of the great stories of the Twentieth Century by the New York Times. Mind-blowing stuff.  More...

Can a passion for an instrument that fits in your pocket change lives? See, and better yet, hear for yourself as you explore the myths surrounding the harmonica as never before-in its evolution from toy to bona fide musical instrument-from some of the greatest harmonica players in the world.

NOTE: THIS FILM IS A WORK IN PROGRESS  More...

Competitive snowboarder Amy Purdy's inspirational journey is the centerpiece of this compelling and uplifting film. It is a story of a young woman's passion, spirit, and healing along her road back into extreme sports after a near-death experience.  More...

 'Sliding Liberia' follows four young surfers to Liberia in search of more than perfect waves. Risking everything to explore the West African country devastated by decades of war, they record the stories of people they meet - people like Alfred, who became Liberia's first surfer after finding a bodyboard while fleeing from rebels.  More...

A film about a world famous photograph that explores how Che Guevara's image traveled from Cuban photographer Alberto Korda Díaz's studio in Havana to the streets of Europe and beyond, along the way becoming a symbol for countless visions for change.  More...

This documentary interviews the “man on the street” to understand how much the common American knows about global warming.  More...