2008 Maui Film Festival Archive

A stylishly comedic mock training film, illustrating how easy it is for the average person to make a difference. More...

Hawaii is known for its warm, inviting, tropical ocean and many enjoyable water activities; but what about life for individuals faced with physical & mental challenges? More...

July of 2005 Zack Weinstein broke his neck while jumping into the Saco River in Maine. He is now a C5-C6 Quadriplegic. In service to other quadriplegic's, we have teamed up with Zack to create 'BACK IN LIFE'. Our hope is that by sharing Zack's powerful experiences in this film, it may provide others with needed strength in an oftentimes daunting struggle. More...

$10 IN ADVANCE. $12 AT THE DOOR, DAY OF SHOW ONLY
This ticket only includes 10pm showing of Bart Got a Room.  This film is included on the double feature ticket for Water Man, One Water , and Guardians of the Sea.

While Danny's father and mother independently search for love, Danny is on his own desperate quest to find a prom date. Danny's search becomes progressively more pathetic once he and his family learn that Bart, the school's biggest dweeb, not only secured a date for the prom, but got a hotel room as well. 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...

$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...

PLEASE NOTE. No one under the age of 18 years of age will be admitted to this screening.

The iron curtain between gay and straight is crumbling. Recent studies suggest that bisexuality is drastically more widespread than we ever thought. And for young people, dating a girl one week and a guy the next is no big deal. Is the whatever generation ushering in a whole new sexual revolution? More...

What would you do? Could you forgive? Should you forgive? Life's Big Questions are explored through astonishing acts of forgiveness, courage and will in this insightful documentary. With interviews from spiritual leaders including: Dr. Deepak Chopra, Archbishop Desmund Tutu and His Holiness Sri Ravi Shankar. 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...

Please note change of venue from McCoy Theater to Castle Theater.   Screening time still 4pm.

Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro’s gripping, award-winning doc, which portrays paralyzed Iraq veteran Tomas Young’s struggle to rise above his wounds by resisting the war that caused them. More...

This film is ticketed as a double feature program.  It includes the 10pm screening of Young at Heart.

Bill Pullman, Alan Rickman, Chris Pine, Rachael Taylor, Freddy Rodriguez, Eliza Dushku and Dennis Farina co-star in this smart, funny, based-on-a-true story and easy-on-the-eyes dramedy that recreates the early days of California wine industry and the now infamous 1976 Judgment of Paris, a 'blind' wine tasting at which California wines trumped the French and shocked the world. 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...