“Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O’Brien” won the 1996 Academy Award for best short documentary. It focuses on a poet-journalist who must live in an iron lung to survive polio.

Each film will be shown at 12:45 p.m. at they synagogue, 1550 Alameda de las Pulgas, Redwood City. Cost is $2 per film or $5 for the series. For information, call (650) 366-8481.

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