The Debbie School’s Scholastic Book Fair continues today and tomorrow, May 12-13, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the breezeway between the Mailman Center for Child Development and the Debbie School on the Miller School of Medicine campus. All proceeds benefit the Debbie School. For more information, please contact Kathleen C. Vergara or Mirtha Gonzalez at 305-243-3669.

Kottil Rammohan, professor of clinical neurology, and Galen Maze-Rothstein, neurology resident, will present a case titled “Patient with a Complaint of Swollen Eye” on Friday, May 13, from 1 to 2 p.m. at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Retter Auditorium.

3 Backyards is the story of three residents of the same town over the course of one seemingly perfect autumn day. A businessman (Elias Koteas) with marital troubles gets “lost” on a business trip without ever leaving town. A little girl (Rachel Resheff) steals her mother’s jewelry in the morning and finds herself faced with frightening, adult decisions by late afternoon. A well-meaning housewife (Edie Falco) offers her celebrity neighbor (Embeth Davidtz) a lift, and the trip detours into unsettling territory. By day’s end, the familiar geography of the suburban landscape dissolves into a place of mystery, loss, and potential danger—a dreamscape where identity can be challenged, shattered, and sometimes reclaimed. The film screens on Friday, May 13 at 7 p.m.; Saturday, May 14 at 5 p.m. and 9 p.m.; and Sunday, May 15 at 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. Admission is $7 for seniors, University of Miami alumni, faculty, non-UM students, and staff. General admission is $9. Free for UM students. To purchase tickets online or for more information, visit www.cosfordcinema.com or call 305-284-4861.

Oscar winner Kevin Kline and the luminous Sandrine Bonnaire (Vagabond, La Cérémonie) square off in this stylish and sophisticated dramedy of newfound passions and mid-life triumphs, set on the postcard-perfect isle of Corsica. Lovely, repressed, and quietly intelligent, French chambermaid Hélène (Bonnaire) comes upon a couple (The L Word’s Jennifer Beals and Marie Antoinette’s Dominic Gould) engaging in an intense chess match, and discovers she has a knack for the game. This obsession—much to the chagrin of her husband and teenage daughter—leads her to seek the clandestine tutelage of a reclusive American doctor (Kline, in his first French-speaking role)—a liaison that radically transforms both of their lackluster lives. Based on Bertina Henrichs’ acclaimed novel La Joueuse d’echec (The Chess Player). French with English subtitles. The film screens on Friday, May 13 at 9 p.m.; Saturday, May 14 at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.; and Sunday, May 15 at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. Admission is $7 for seniors, University of Miami alumni, faculty, non-UM students, and staff. General admission is $9. Free for UM students. To purchase tickets online or for more information, visit www.cosfordcinema.com or call 305-284-4861.

Nearly 3,500 students will graduate at the University of Miami during six ceremonies being held May 12 – 14 at the BankUnited Center, 1245 Dauer Drive, on UM’s Coral Gables campus.

Details about UM Commencement ceremonies are listed below. For more information on Commencement, visit www.miami.edu/commencement, where the undergraduate ceremonies will be webcast live and archived.

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