Rated PG-13, 94 minutes, 2008: This unique film tells the story of the Holocaust through the eyes of eight-year-old Bruno whose father is a Nazi commander at Auschwitz. Bruno strikes up a friendship with a Jewish boy, Shmuel, through the fence surrounding the camp where everyone wears striped “pajamas.” Their friendship will have startling and unexpected consequences for both of them.  Sponsored by Dr. Gary Swenson & Dean Genth. 

Rated R, 109 minutes, 2000: Against the turbulent backdrop of Belfast in the 1980s, fellow barbers, Colm, a Catholic, and George, a Protestant, form an unlikely partnership to corner the toupee market and bring "piece(s)" to Northern Ireland. Sponsored by Terry MacGregor.

Rated R, 96 minute, 2009: Seeking the promise of America, a beautiful young Honduran woman, Sayra, joins her father and uncle on an odyssey en route to the United States. Along the way she crosses paths with a Mexican gang member who is trying to outrun his violent past and elude his former associates. Together they must rely on faith, trust and street smarts if they are to survive their increasingly perilous journey towards the hope of new lives. In Spanish with English subtitles.  Sponsored by a Friend of the MacNider Art Museum’s Foreign and Independent Film Series.

Rated R, 102 minutes, 1998: The fascinating, extraordinary story of the first female painter to break into the Italian art world with her exotic images. Seventeen-year-old Artemisia inherits a passion for painting from her artist father, Orazio Gentileschi. But female painters weren’t allowed to take classes or to ask male models to pose nude in 17th century Rome. Artemisia persists. This anatomical quest mingles with the unleashing of her repressed sexual inhibitions. In French with English subtitles.

Rated PG-13, 119 minutes, 2008: Based on a true story, Bob Kearns develops a device for windshield wipers that will be used in every car in the world. Thinking he has struck gold, Bob is unceremoniously shunned by the manufacturers and begins a long battle with the U.S. automobile industry.