Wolverine, the first chapter in the X-Men film saga, unites Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) with several other legends of the X-Men comic book universe. This epic revolution pits the mutants against powerful forces determined to eliminate them. Admission is $6 for UM alumni, faculty, and staff, and is free for students. General admission is $8. The film screens on Saturday, September 12 at 10:30 p.m. and on Sunday, September 13 at 8:30 p.m. For more information, visit www.cosfordcinema.com.

Camila Jam tells the story of Camila, a young woman engaged in becoming a writer. Exploring her passion and her effort to support it, the film examines a female character who faces the abyss and gains from it her strength to exist. Leandra Leal’s tour de force performance earned her the Grande Premio Brasil for Best Actress (Brazil’s equivalent of the Academy Award).

This exclusive Cosford Cinema engagement made its Miami debut earlier this year at the Brazilian Film Festival of Miami. The film is in Portuguese with English subtitles. Admission is $6 for UM alumni, faculty, and staff and free for students. General admission is $8. The film screens on Friday, September 11 at 9:15 p.m., Saturday, September 12 at 3:45  and 8:15 p.m. and Sunday, September 13 at 6 p.m. For more information, visit www.cosfordcinema.com.

An early member of the French New Wave, Agnes Varda has worked with Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, Jean-Luc Godard, Jane Birkin, Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve, and Philippe Noiret. In The Beaches of Agnes, stories of her childhood in Brussels and adolescence in occupied Paris, of Los Angeles in the ’60s, and of life in her Paris neighborhood are melded with clips from both documentary and fictional work. She is a mother and wife, a feminist, a nature lover, and an urban-dwelling artist. Above all, she is a woman in love with the cinema whose new movie perfectly expresses her sentiment. The film is in French with English subtitles. 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, September 11 at 7 p.m., Saturday, September 12 at 6:10 p.m., and Sunday, September 13 at 3:45 p.m. For more information about the French New Wave series, visit www.cosfordcinema.com.

In an exclusive collaboration with Emerging Pictures, the School of Communication brings Italian opera to digital cinema with the presentation of eight operas filmed in crystal-clear high definition. The limited-engagement series opens with Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata on Saturday and Sunday, September 12-13 at 1 p.m.

In La Traviata Verdi tells the story of Violetta Valéry, a courtesan who falls in love and is forced to renounce her affair and retreat to Paris. This presentation, filmed at the famed La Scala opera house in Milan, is Angela Gheorghiu’s La Scala debut as Violetta.

The opera series, which runs through December 20, includes La Boheme, Das Rheingold, Walküre, Don Giovanni, Cosi fan Tutte, Don Carlo, and L’Orfeo. All screenings will take place at the Bill Cosford Cinema in the Memorial Building on the University of Miami’s Coral Gables campus. For showtimes and more information, visit www.cosfordcinema.com.

General admission tickets are $20. Seniors, students, and UM faculty and staff pay $18. Florida Grand Opera members receive a special discounted rate of $18 as well.

Join the William Lehman Injury Research Center for the second annual Strides for Safety 5K Run and Safety Walk on Sunday, September 13 at Aventura Mall. The race begins at 7 a.m. Stop by our Safety Fair and Kids Zone after the race for free health screenings, and learn how to keep you and your family safe and healthy. Sebastian the Ibis will be on hand to pass out award medals, and there will be a bounce house, coast guard boat, and fire truck for the kids to enjoy. All proceeds from the event will support injury prevention research programs at the William Lehman Injury Research Center.

For registration, go to www.splitsecondtiming.com. For further information, call Katy at 305-585-1188.