2008 Maui Film Festival Archive

Semu Fatutoa drives a taxi in Honolulu, Hawaii. Once he was a village Chief in Samoa, but tragedy compelled him to cover his tattoos and flee his home. Now he drives in circles, slowly forgetting his old life. But his old life is looking for him. And a young Hawaiian girl, separated from her family on the eve of a disastrous day, desperately needs his help.  More...

This ticket only includes 10pm showing of Young @ Heart.  This film is included on the double feature ticket for Bottle Shock.

Rock 'n roll will never be the same after you've heard the incredible Young @ Heart chorus, whose members' average age is 82(!), sing songs by The Clash, Coldplay, Sonic Youth. They give new meaning to I Feel Good by the legendary Godfather of Soul, James Brown. You will love this film! Guaranteed.  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...

A cinema masterpiece set in Mongolia that combines a slow-motion romantic comedy with a docudrama-style portrait of a remote, nomadic culture as it is gradually eroded by the tides of the 21st Century. Winner of the prestigious Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.  More...

“What do you think of America?” Four ordinary Americans ask that question all over the world, in a beautifully photographed, sometimes disturbing, but deeply affecting portrait of planetary unity.  More...

Montage of motion controlled time-lapse photography of the earth and weather. Set to a poem by Antonio Machado and read by actor Alec Baldwin (30 Rock).  More...

Two young men compete for the affections of a beautiful woman by trying to ‘out-green’ each other. Starring Martin Freeman (The Office Love Actually) and Anna Friel (Pushing Daisies)  More...

The Turtle and the Shark is one of the most popular Samoan legends. It tells the story of a man and a woman who are to be separated by the King Malietoafaiga. To avoid separation, they flee to another island. However, fearing their act of disobedience would bring dishonor on their families, they willingly gave up their lives at the cliffs of Vaitogi. The gods had mercy on them and transformed them into a turtle and a shark to live together, forever.  More...

Over the past four decades, artist Isaiah Zagar has covered more than 50,000 square feet of Philadelphia with stunning mosaic murals while raising a family, tiptoeing to the edge of madness and eventually returning to the loves of his life - his wife and his art. A must-see for artists everywhere.  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...