Winner of the Ecumenical Jury Prize at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival and named Best Foreign Language Film of 2010 by the National Board of Review. Eight French Christian monks live in harmony with their Muslim brothers in a monastery perched in the mountains of North Africa in the 1990s. When a crew of foreign workers is massacred by an Islamic fundamentalist group, fear sweeps through the region. The army offers them protection, but the monks refuse. Should they leave? Despite the growing menace in their midst, they slowly realize that they have no choice but to stay… come what may. This film is loosely based on the life of the Cistercian monks of Tibhirine in Algeria from 1993 until their kidnapping in 1996. Arabic and French with English subtitles. This film will screen Friday, May 20 at 9 p.m.; Saturday, May 21 at 4 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.; and Sunday, May 22 at 1 p.m. and 5:30 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.

When the USSR broke apart in 1991, a generation of young people faced a new realm of possibilities. An intimate epic about the extraordinary lives of this last Soviet generation, Robin Hessman’s feature documentary debut tells the stories of five Moscow schoolmates who were brought up behind the Iron Curtain, witnessed the joy and confusion of glasnost, and reached adulthood right as the world changed around them. Russian with English subtitles. This film will screen Friday, May 20 at 7 p.m.; Saturday, May 21 at 2 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.; and Sunday, May 22 at 3:30 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.

The University of Miami’s second Employee Day Baseball Game presented by Verizon Wireless is less than two weeks away. Tickets are still available for UM employees who have not already purchased their four allotted Employee Day tickets. Secure your seats now to see the Hurricanes play at Alex Rodriguez Park at Mark Light Field when the team takes on the Duke Blue Devils in the final regular-season series on Friday, May 20 at 7 p.m.

Baseball Employee Day tickets are available to all full-time and part-time regular benefited employees. Eligible employees will receive one (1) complimentary ticket and have the opportunity to purchase up to three (3) additional tickets for only $1 each.

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Linda Pike, professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics at the Washington University School of Medicine, will present “Ligand Binding and Allosteric Regulation of the EGF Receptor Kinase” on Friday, May 20 at 12 p.m. at the Gautier Building, Room 118.

The Center for Hemispheric Policy will host a panel discussion titled “Brazil under the Rousseff Administration: The Outlook for Political Change” on Friday, May 20 from 8 to 9:45 a.m. at the Hyatt Regency Coral Gables. Scheduled panelists include David Fleischer, emeritus professor, Universidade de Brasília, Brazil; João Augusto de Castro Neves, founding partner, CAC Political Consultancy, Washington, D.C.; and Carlos Pereira, professor, Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration, Getúlio Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and visiting fellow, Latin America Initiative, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. RSVP to [email protected]. For more information, please call Isabel Artime at 305-284-9918 or visit www.miami.edu/chp.