Heartland Film Festival 2008

Heartland Film Festival will kick off its 2008 Festival with the North American premiere of Miramax Films' The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Meet the filmmakers and stars of this powerful film that shows a unique perspective on how prejudice, hatred and violence affect innocent people, particularly children, during wartime.

Ticketing Options:
Opening Night Dinner, Film, Q&A and Reception: $125
Film, Q&A and Reception: $25
Film and Q&A: $12

Tickets available at The Murat Center box office and all Ticketmaster outlets. Normal Ticketmaster fees apply.

Appropriate attire for this event is casual to business casual.

About the movie:
Eight year-old Bruno is the sheltered son of a Nazi officer whose promotion takes the family from their comfortable home in Berlin to a desolate area where the lonely boy finds nothing to do and no-one to play with. Crushed by boredom and compelled by curiosity, Bruno ignores his mother’s repeated instructions not to explore the back garden and heads for the ‘farm’ he has seen in the near distance. There he meets Shmuel, a boy his own age who lives a parallel, alien existence on the other side of a barbed wire fence. Bruno's encounter with the boy in the striped pajamas leads him from innocence to a dawning awareness of the adult world around them as his meetings with Shmuel develop into a friendship with devastating consequences.

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