Commitment to a life of truth and to the mission of a university requires dedication to patient and deliberate forms of truth-seeking and humble and courageous acts of truth-telling.

Join us for this award-winning, hidden gem of a short film that offers the haunting memories of a young Polish Catholic survivor of Auschwitz, who for 50 years did not speak about his 4-year Nazi imprisonment or the unspeakable human acts of violence he witnessed until a debilitating stroke finally prompted his courageous testimony in the only way he could.

 
 
 

Special Free Movie Night at The Violet Crown (Downtown Mall)

Thursday, Feb.17, 2022 - 7:00pm

Join us for Joel Coen's new version of Shakespeare's classic tragedy, starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, with brief pre-film remarks from Dr. Beth Sutherland. Seating limited, so submit your request for a free ticket here.

 

Friday, March 1, 2019 (7:00pm)
UVA Minor Hall / Free Admission
 
Join us for this inspiring documentary on Jean Vanier and the L'Arche communites he helped create for those with intellectual disabilities.
 
In 1964, after a distinguished military career, a Ph.D. in philosophy from L’Institute Catholique de Paris, and a successful academic career, Vanier discerned the vocation he was called to dedicate the rest of his life to. In that year, at the edge of a forest outside of Paris, Vanier formed the first L'Arche house with several others who until then had been hidden away in a large state institution for persons with intellectual disabilities. Moved initially by compassion and a vague sense he could help, Vanier soon realized that supporting and living in community with these individuals meant not only daily sacrifice, but also that he was as much the one receiving aid and comfort as he was the one whose care was depended upon by others. 
 
Today, there are 152 L'Arche communities in 37 countries and 1450 complementary Faith and Light communities in 83 countries. 
 
An open discussion will follow the film. All are welcomed to attend this UVA community screening, so invite a friend or come prepared to meet someone new. 

Summer in the Forest (2018)

Cosponsored with UVA Catholic Hoos, and the UVA Disability Studies Initiative. 

Start the semester by joining us this Wednesday, Jan. 16, for a screening of Robert Bresson’s classic and much acclaimed adaptation of George Bernanos’s novel Diary of a Country Priest. The film explores the spiritual drama of an ill young priest whose parishioners challenge and torment him. Through suffering the priest wholeheartedly embraces Grace.  Pizza will be served at 6:30pm; film starts at 7pm. A brief discussion will follow. All are invited, so bring a friend or come to meet someone  new. Location: St. Thomas Aquinas Classrooms 9 & 11 (on the chapel-side hallway).  Cosponsored by the St. Anselm Institute and the Frassati Fellowship.

Free! Student Film Night and Dinner Series
Location: UVA OpenGrounds, 6:30-8:30pm

Make plans now to join other UVA students for an international dinner to honor the travels and the life of the famed 16th-century Jesuit missionary St. Francis Xavier. We'll also screen a short film Xavier narrated by Liam Neeson, but even better one of the film's writers/producers will be present: Religious Studies graduate student Matt Farley!

 

St. Anselm Feast Day Event

Film at 8pm, with discussion following

Location: UVA OpenGrounds (on the Corner, opposite the White Spot)

UVA Student (Free!) Field Trip Series
Friday, January 27, 2017-Downtown Mall
Interested in attending a private group screening of this acclaimed Martin Scorcese film? Limited tickets available. Email Institute Postdoc Fellow Beth Sutherland for details and to reserve tickets: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016 (6:30pm)
St. Thomas Aquinas Hall)
 
UVA Students & Friends of the Institute: Join us for a special Indian Dinner/Film Night as we open our 16th year with a celebration of the canonization of St. Mother Teresa of Kolkata. Our favorite local Indian restaurant (Milan!!) will provide this free(!) dinner, and our 2016-17 Postdoctoral Fellow Beth Sutherland and Niru De Silva, FOCUS Director of Collegiate Outreach and UVA alum, will lead a post-film discussion on the award-winning film Mother Teresa, directed by the sister team of Ann and Jean Petrie, who send their best wishes to the Institute and to UVA students. Bring a friend and come to meet someone new. No reservation required.
 

Free Friday Night Film Series

October 23, 2015 (7:00pm)
Minor Hall Auditorium
 
The St. Anselm Institute for Catholic Thought and UVA Catholic Student Ministry invite all visiting UVA Weekend families to join us and others in the UVA community for a free movie night and brief post-screening discussion of Babette's Feast (1987), a delightful Academy and Cannes Film Festival Award-winning Danish movie (with English subtitles). 

 

 

2015 Academy Award Best Foreign Language Film

Polish (English subtitles)
Minor Hall Auditorium, 7:00pm

Orphaned by war but now a young Catholic novitiate on the verge of taking her final vows, Anna discovers not only her original name and her Jewish ancestry, but a hidden and dark family secret. Her story unfolds in Poland of the 1960s--doubly scarred by Nazi occupation during WWII and Communist brutalities afterwards--but it speaks to a more deeply human story of commitment, doubt, identity, frailty and resolve that transcends its time and place. 

This 82-minute movie is free and open to all, so invite a friend or two. An open panel/audience discussion will follow the conclusion of this film.

Final Friday Film Night of the Year:

Réquiem NN

Spanish (with English subtitles)
April 11, 2014  (5pm)
UVA-Minor Hall Auditorium
 
For over 30 years in Puerto Berrio, Colombia, townspeople have offered a way of caring for the least of their brothers and sisters by salvaging the remains of victims of drug-related and guerilla violence from the Magdalena River.  These anonymous persons--or "No Names"--receive proper graves, which are decorated and regularly visited as one would a deceased family member.  This documentary film, with English subtitles, examines how local devotional practices offer a responsorial order to the confusion and devastation of mass violence and a ritualistic means of fostering a deeper communal sense of life's dignity for every person.
 
The film's producer, Margarita de la Vega-Hurtado, also will be present and she will join us in an open discussion of the film and its various themes afterwards.
 
All are invited to this film.  Free Admission.  So feel free to bring a friend or two.
 
  1. February 28: Friday Night Film Series!
  2. March 21, 2014 (Film Night)
  3. December 13, 2013: Friday Night at the Movies!
  4. October 18, 2013
  5. March , 2013 FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES!
  6. November 16, 2012: FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES!
  7. October 26,2012: FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES!
  8. Feb 23, 2012: Thursday Night at the Movies: Feb. 23 (7:30pm)
  9. October 21, 2011: Friday Night at the Movies: The Tree of Life

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