Following the deaths of Mihai's parents, Mihai and Lisbeth Gheorghiu leave their life behind in Romania and move with their children to a remote village in Norway, hoping to rebuild their lives near Lisbeth's family. There, they grow close to their neighbors, the Halbergs, whose warmth gives them hope for a fresh start. But the fragile peace begins to unravel when the Gheorghiu family’s young daughter, Elia, arrives at school covered in bruises.

Ad Hoc Cinema in association with Coral Gables Art Cinema presents Terra Femme (2021) a live film lecture-performance by Courtney Stephens with music by Sarah Davachi. A film essay comprising rare women’s amateur travelogues from the 1920s-50s; an inquiry into early non-fiction Cinema. Terra Femme is a live documentary presented as a live lecture-performance, similar to the way these films might have been exhibited nearly a hundred years ago when they were shot. Courtney Stephens weaves together, alongside a sobering score by composer Sarah Davachi, questions of female authorship, cinematic excavation, and the Western gaze…complicating the freedoms these women experienced while traveling through foreign landscapes. Tickets: $19 (General Admission)

Following the deaths of Mihai's parents, Mihai and Lisbeth Gheorghiu leave their life behind in Romania and move with their children to a remote village in Norway, hoping to rebuild their lives near Lisbeth's family. There, they grow close to their neighbors, the Halbergs, whose warmth gives them hope for a fresh start. But the fragile peace begins to unravel when the Gheorghiu family’s young daughter, Elia, arrives at school covered in bruises.