The Miami Jewish Film Festival favorite returns for the final run in Miami. Beau Jest is the hilarious, heartwarming story about Sarah Goldman, a beautiful young school teacher from Chicago who is involved with Chris, a great guy with just one apparent flaw: He’s not Jewish. Sarah tells her parents that she is no longer seeing Chris but continues to date him in secret. To keep her mother from trying to fix her up with “nice Jewish boys,” Sarah invents the perfect boyfriend and regales her parents with stories of the man of her mother’s dreams. Eventually they insist on meeting the man, and in desperation, Sarah hires Bob, an actor, to play the part of her new beau. Unaware of the scope of the role he has taken on, Bob accompanies Sarah to dinner with her parents and her brother, Joel. He quickly realizes that what he has gotten himself into is much more than he bargained for. It will take all of his charm, wit, and improvisational skills to pull off the charade. Beau Jest stars Lainie Kazan, Robyn Cohen, Tony Daly, Willie Garson, Greg Cromer, and Seymour Cassel. Admission is $6 for all University of Miami alumni, faculty, and staff, and is free for students. General admission is $8. The film screens on Friday, August 14 at 7 p.m., Saturday, August 15 at 4:15 and 8:30 p.m., and Sunday, August 16 at 2 and 6:15 p.m. For more information visit www.cosfordcinema.com.

A number of heavy dramas–including Lions for Lambs and In the Valley of Elah–have addressed the wars in the Middle East, but In the Loop takes a different approach: comedy. Though the American president and the British prime minister are itching to attack, a top U.S. general (James Gandolfini) and the British Secretary of State for International Development (Tom Hollander) believe that’s the wrong decision. However, a small miscommunication has the two powers ready to go to war, and it’s up to the British pol to stop things before they get started. This pointed political satire also stars Gina McKee, Chris Addison, and Steve Coogan. Admission is $6 for all UM alumni, faculty, and staff, and is free for students. General admission is $8. The film screens on Friday, August 14 at 9  p.m., Saturday, August 15 at 2 p.m. and 6:15 p.m., and Sunday, August 16 at 4 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. For more information visit www.cosfordcinema.com.

Working effectively in a team environment is essential to accomplishing strategic goals. In this course, participants will identify the elements of a high-performing team, learn to stimulate innovative thinking and collaboration on group projects, learn to delegate tasks effectively within a team, and evaluate themselves in a team environment. This session will be held Friday, August 14 from 1 to 4 p.m. at Professional Development and Training on the Miller School campus, Dominion Parking Garage, Suite 155. You must complete the corresponding online CBL prior to enrolling for the live session. To register for the CBL and the live session, visit ULearn and follow the instructions to log on. For more information, call 305-284-5110 or 305-243-3090.

The Miami Institute for Human Genomics is proud to welcome world-renowned leader in Alzheimer’s research Gary Small, M.D., Parlow-Solomon Professor on Aging, professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences, and director of the Center on Aging and the Geriatric Psychiatry Division at UCLA Health System in California. Small will present “Banishing the Senior Moment: Detection and Prevention of Age-Related Cognitive Decline.” Please join us for this special seminar on Friday, August 14, at 1:30 p.m. in the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium.

For more information, please contact Nora Matelis at [email protected] or 305-243-8408.