From acclaimed director Avi Nesher comes Israel’s hit coming-of-age film The Matchmaker. Arik, a teenage boy growing up in Haifa in 1968, gets a job working for Yankele Bride, a matchmaker. Yankele, a mysterious Holocaust survivor, has an office in back of a sketchily located movie theater that shows only love stories and is run by a family of seven Romanian dwarves. As Arik begins to learn the mysteries of the human heart through his work with Yankele, he falls in love with Tamara, his friend Beni’s cousin. Tamara has just returned from America and is full of talk of women’s rights, free love, and rock and roll. The disparate parts of Arik’s life collide in unexpected, often funny, and very moving ways as he lives through a summer that changes him forever. Nominated for seven Israeli Academy Awards, including Best Picture, the film is in Hebrew with English subtitles.

The film screens Friday, June 15 at 9:15 p.m.; Saturday, June 16 at 2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m.; and Sunday, June 17 at 4:15 p.m. and 8:45 p.m. General admission is $9. Admission is $7 for seniors, University of Miami alumni, faculty, non-UM students, and staff. Free for UM students. To purchase tickets online or for more information, visit www.cosfordcinema.com or call 305-284-4861.

From acclaimed director Avi Nesher comes Israel’s hit coming-of-age film The Matchmaker. Arik, a teenage boy growing up in Haifa in 1968, gets a job working for Yankele Bride, a matchmaker. Yankele, a mysterious Holocaust survivor, has an office in back of a sketchily located movie theater that shows only love stories and is run by a family of seven Romanian dwarves. As Arik begins to learn the mysteries of the human heart through his work with Yankele, he falls in love with Tamara, his friend Beni’s cousin. Tamara has just returned from America and is full of talk of women’s rights, free love, and rock and roll. The disparate parts of Arik’s life collide in unexpected, often funny, and very moving ways as he lives through a summer that changes him forever. Nominated for seven Israeli Academy Awards, including Best Picture, the film is in Hebrew with English subtitles.

The film screens Friday, June 15 at 9:15 p.m.; Saturday, June 16 at 2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m.; and Sunday, June 17 at 4:15 p.m. and 8:45 p.m. General admission is $9. Admission is $7 for seniors, University of Miami alumni, faculty, non-UM students, and staff. Free for UM students. To purchase tickets online or for more information, visit www.cosfordcinema.com or call 305-284-4861.

Fifteen-year-old Camille (Lola Créton) is a serious, intensely focused girl who has fallen in love with cheerful Sullivan (Sebastian Urzendowsky), an older boy who reciprocates her feelings but wants to be free to explore the world. When he leaves her to travel through South America, she is devastated. But over the next eight years, she develops into a more fully formed woman, with new interests, a new love, and the possibility that she’ll be less vulnerable when Sullivan enters her life again. The film is in French with English subtitles.

The film screens Friday, June 15 at 7 p.m.; Saturday, June 16 at 4:45 p.m. and 9:15 p.m.; and Sunday, June 17 at 2 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. General admission is $9. Admission is $7 for seniors, University of Miami alumni, faculty, non-UM students, and staff. Free for UM students. To purchase tickets online or for more information, visit www.cosfordcinema.com or call 305-284-4861.

Fifteen-year-old Camille (Lola Créton) is a serious, intensely focused girl who has fallen in love with cheerful Sullivan (Sebastian Urzendowsky), an older boy who reciprocates her feelings but wants to be free to explore the world. When he leaves her to travel through South America, she is devastated. But over the next eight years, she develops into a more fully formed woman, with new interests, a new love, and the possibility that she’ll be less vulnerable when Sullivan enters her life again. The film is in French with English subtitles.

The film screens Friday, June 15 at 7 p.m.; Saturday, June 16 at 4:45 p.m. and 9:15 p.m.; and Sunday, June 17 at 2 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. General admission is $9. Admission is $7 for seniors, University of Miami alumni, faculty, non-UM students, and staff. Free for UM students. To purchase tickets online or for more information, visit www.cosfordcinema.com or call 305-284-4861.

Martin Casuso’s Master of Fine Arts exhibition “of-things-being-what-they-are-not” is on view through June 22 at the University of Miami Gallery at the Wynwood Building, 2750 NW Third Avenue, Suite 4. An opening reception will be held Saturday, June 9 from 2 to 9 p.m.

Casuso’s work has its origins in mainstream handiwork and hobby, with a deliberate shift from a traditional application of these crafts. His work involves an ongoing exploration of how gender, sexual preference, materials, and processes relate to themes of domesticity. The materials of craft, sometimes made by unseen hands of the past or by the artist himself, are combined with a more industrial palette of hardware supplies or thrift store housewares to make new “old” objects that are not gender specific. They in turn reflect Casuso’s own relationship with domesticity, shifting from being objects of use to objects of contemplation.

For more information, contact Milly Cardoso at 305-284-3161 or [email protected].