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.

New and slightly used Baldwin, Steinway, Yamaha, and Young Chang pianos will be on sale at the Jerry Herman Ring Theatre during the Piano Music Center’s annual piano sale, May 19-22 from 12 to 6 p.m. The pianos, which were on loan to the University of Miami’s Department of Theatre Arts, come with a full manufacturer’s warrantee. Vertical, grand, digital, and player pianos will be on display, and immediate delivery will be available. Reservations are highly recommended and can be made by calling 954-457-4664. Appointments for Thursday, May 19 are reserved for faculty, staff, students, and alumni, as the choice of instruments is first come, first served. For more information, call 954-457-4664 or email [email protected].

The Coral Gables Home Show is coming to UM’s BankUnited Center May 21-22 at 11 a.m. Home-related exhibitors will display their products and services, including unique indoor and outdoor furniture, waterfalls, decorative pieces, pools, spas, eco-friendly products, saunas, wall units, wooden and bamboo floors, tiles, carpet, stone, granite, marble, kitchen cabinets and shelves, closets, entry and garage doors, stained glass, drapes, blinds, framed mirrors and art, oil paintings, safety and tinted films for windows, hurricane shutters, water and air purifying systems, BBQs, garden tools, landscaping, plants, pavers, pewter, decorative wall painting, rain gutters, satellite systems, safety cameras, cooking shows, cleaning products, accessories, and much more. Admission is free.