Filled with political intrigue, love, betrayal, passion, and vengeance, Verdi’s Aida has captivated audiences for generations. The legendary Zubin Mehta conducts this spectacular new production of the beloved opera from the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence, Italy. In Italian with English subtitles. Tickets are $22 regular admission and $18 discount admission. The film will screen Saturday, July 30 at 12 p.m.; Sunday, July 31 at 12:30 p.m.; and Monday, August 1 at 7:30 p.m. To purchase tickets online or for more information, visit www.cosfordcinema.com or call 305-284-4861.

There’s a tenuous balance between reality and fiction, particularly when it links a beautiful young woman and a powerful politico in a dark dance of money, murder, and suicide. A passionate filmmaker, creating a film based upon a true crime, casts a mysterious young woman bearing a disturbing resemblance to the femme fatale in the story. He soon finds himself drawn into a web of intrigue, obsessed with the woman, the crime, her possibly notorious past, and the shifting line between art and truth. As the story unfolds in settings ranging from North Carolina’s Smoky Mountains to Verona, Rome, and London, new truths are revealed and clues to other crimes and passions, darker and even more complex, are uncovered. The film will screen Friday, July 29 at 9:15 p.m.; Saturday, July 30 at 5:45 p.m.; and Sunday, July 31 at 6:15 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.

Anita Feldman (Alejandra Manzo), a young woman with Down syndrome, lives a happy, routine life in Buenos Aires, being meticulously cared for by her mother (Norma Aleandro). But one tragic morning changes everything: Anita is left alone, confused, and helpless when the nearby Argentine Israelite Mutual Association is bombed. As she wanders through the city, she not only learns to care for herself but touches the lives of those around her, from an alcoholic to a family of Asian immigrants. In Spanish with English subtitles. This film will screen Friday, July 29 at 7 p.m.; Saturday, July 30 at 3:30 p.m. and 8:15 p.m.; and Sunday, July 31 at 4 p.m. and 8:45 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.

In celebration of the exhibition Sacred Stories, Timeless Tales, the University of Miami Lowe Art Museum presents another form of storytelling: the art of shadow puppetry. Pablo Cano and Jim Hammond present Dog, A Shadow Puppet Play. Cano has collaborated with master puppeteer Jim Hammond in its writing and production. It is a story about a dog that pursues a “red squeaky ball” through ten famous paintings and sculptures in art history. The ball is used as a metaphor for each of our simplest pursuits of happiness. Keeping true with his use of found materials for his artwork, Cano created each shadow puppet from plastic “Beware of the Dog” signs. Dog brings together art education, music, and entertainment for young and old alike.

The performance is recommended for ages 6 years and up and lasts approximately 40 minutes. It will take place on Sunday, July 31 at 1:30 p.m. in Storer Auditorium on UM’s Coral Gables campus. Admission is $10 for Lowe members; $15 for non-members.

The University of Miami School of Architecture presents “La Habana,” an exhibition of photographs by Victoria Montoro. The exhibit will be on display from July 7 to August 12, Monday through Friday, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Korach Gallery of the Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center. A reception will be held on Wednesday, July 13 from 6 to 8 p.m. The reception is free and open to the public.

Cuban–born Victoria Montoro left Havana in 1961 and returned for the first time in 2008. The daughter of a former political prisoner, she calls the trip the most important of her life. It was a time for her to reconcile her memories from those invented ones or imagined ones acquired through the years. This body of work reveals how the buildings in La Habana have endured.