Shorts

A Spiritual Journey With Saint Vincent de Paul, Day 1
Length: 12 min.
Year: 2025
Country: Belgium
Language: English
The reflection introduces Saint Vincent de Paul as the patron saint of charity, known for his service to the poor and the sick. It emphasizes that he was an ordinary man who, through life’s circumstances and encounters, was gradually transformed into a saint.

A Spiritual Journey With Saint Vincent de Paul, Day 2
Length: 8 min.
Year: 2025
Country: Belgium
Language: English
Vincent de Paul remains deeply relevant today. His insistence on recognizing the poor as masters, uniting prayer with service, and seeing Christ in the marginalized continues to challenge and inspire.

A Spiritual Journey With Saint Vincent de Paul, Day 3
Length: 8 min.
Year: 2025
Country: Belgium
Language: English
Vincent de Paul’s “new style of charity” united divine love, humility, simplicity, compassion, trust in providence, and collaboration. His example challenges us today to serve the poor with respect, to see Christ in them, and to build communities of love and service rooted in God’s grace.

A Spiritual Journey With Saint Vincent de Paul, Day 4
Length: 10 min.
Year: 2025
Country: Belgium
Language: English
Saint Vincent de Paul embodied a new way of living charity, rooted in God’s love and expressed through humility, simplicity, meekness, mortification, and holistic care. He always urged everyone to see Christ in the poor, to treat them as masters with love and respect, and never to think one has done enough. His virtues remain a concrete guide for authentic Christian service today.

A Spiritual Journey With Saint Vincent de Paul, Day 5
Length: 5 min.
Year: 2025
Country: Belgium
Language: English
This reflection introduces Venerable Peter Joseph Triest, often called the “Belgian Vincent de Paul” because of the many parallels between his life and that of Saint Vincent. Triest lived a spirituality entirely in line with Vincent de Paul, combining contemplation and action, prayer and service, compassion and professionalism.

A Spiritual Journey With Saint Vincent de Paul, Day 6
Length: 14 min.
Year: 2025
Country: Belgium
Language: English
This reflection highlights Saint Vincent de Paul’s pioneering vision of caring for the sick, a vision that remains strikingly relevant today.

A Spiritual Journey With Saint Vincent de Paul, Day 7
Length: 6 min.
Year: 2025
Country: Belgium
Language: English
This reflection centers on Saint Vincent de Paul’s all-embracing love and its enduring relevance. For him, service to the poor was a spiritual vocation, a mystical expression of God’s love rooted in prayer and the Eucharist.

A Spiritual Journey With Saint Vincent de Paul, Day 8
Length: 5 min.
Year: 2025
Country: Belgium
Language: English
Vincent’s vision reminds us that love for God and love for the poor are not two separate realities but one. Serving others with generosity, humility, and creativity is to live the very love of the Trinity and to reveal God’s face in the world.

Aazar
Length: 5 min.
Year: 2018
Country: Spain
Language: English
The struggles of finding a new home in the refugee and immigrant experience through the eyes of a child.

Ainhoa
Length: 19 min.
Year: 2017
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish
In our often greedy world sometimes simple life-saving beauty can be found in a gifted cardboard blanket, a snail shell, dancing bread loaves or the slurping of soup.

Change A Life Uganda: The Celebration of Water
Length: 3 min.
Year: 2015
Country: USA, Uganda
Language: English
Children and friends of Change A LIfe Uganda provided clean, safe water to the community of Migyera through their Quarters for Water project.

Compassionate Hearts, Generous Hands
Length: 1 min.
Year: 2022
Country: USA
Language: English
How are you using your light to pour hope into the people around you? Sign up to serve at https://famvin.help

crISIS
Length: 10 min.
Year: 2015
Country: Italy
Language: Arabic, English subtitles
ISIS occupation of north and west Iraq causes severe security deterioration in Baghdad.

Criteria
Length: 7 min.
Year: 2017
Country: UK
Language: English
After the loss of a parent, how do we become the person we are meant to be?

Dance for Kindness
Length: 7 min.
Year: 2020
Country: Ukraine
Language: English
By the Nigerian Vincentian College Students in Kharkov, Ukraine.

Fatima
Length: 12 min.
Year: 2017
Country: Canada, India, Pakistan
Language: English
What does it take to truly live without discriminating against others?

Feeling Through
Length: 18 min.
Year: 2020
Country: USA
Language: English
A homeless teen meets a deaf-blind man who changes his life forever.

Goodbye
Length: 12 min.
Year: 2016
Country: Peru
Language: Spanish, English subtitles
This is a film about acceptance of change.

Il Signor Acciaio (Mr. Steel)
Length: 20 min.
Year: 2017
Country: Italy
Language: Italian
This film dives into the trauma of addiction and recovery.

La Leccion (The Lesson)
Length: 14 min.
Year: 2017
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish, English subtitles
What does it take for people to acknowledge the affect they have on others on a worldwide level?

Ladies of Charity: Serving with a Vincentian Heart
Length: 8 min.
Year: 2017
Country: USA
Language: English
A short film about the Ladies of Charity and their commitment and passion for serving people in need.

Murga (The Rooster)
Length: 16 min.
Year: 2017
Country: India
Language: English subtitles
This film is a Christology wherein a mother faces an impossible decision.

Our Essential Friendship
Length: 5 min.
Year: 2021
Country: USA
Language: English
We all have friends, right? Is that the same thing as the Essential Element of Friendship? Or are we called to something deeper?

Our Vincentian Virtues – An Introduction
Length: 4 min.
Year: 2023
Country: USA
Language: English
This is Part 1 of a six-part "Fred Talk" series focused on the Vincentian Virtues.

Our Vincentian Virtues – Gentleness
Length: 3 min.
Year: 2023
Country: USA
Language: English
This is Part 4 of a six-part "Fred Talk" series focused on the Vincentian Virtues.

Our Vincentian Virtues – Humility
Length: 3 min.
Year: 2023
Country: USA
Language: English
This is Part 3 of a six-part "Fred Talk" series focused on the Vincentian Virtues.

Our Vincentian Virtues – Selflessness
Length: 3 min.
Year: 2023
Country: USA
Language: English
This is Part 5 of a six-part "Fred Talk" series focused on the Vincentian Virtues.

Our Vincentian Virtues – Simplicity
Length: 2 min.
Year: 2023
Country: USA
Language: English
This is Part 2 of a six-part "Fred Talk" series focused on the Vincentian Virtues.

Our Vincentian Virtues – Zeal
Length: 4 min.
Year: 2023
Country: USA
Language: English
This is Part 6 of a six-part "Fred Talk" series focused on the Vincentian Virtues.

Prayer for Pentecost
Length: 28 min.
Year: 2022
Country: Philippines
Language: English / subtitles
A Pentecost prayer specially prepared for the Vincentian Family by the members of Vincentian Marian Youth.

Sacrilege
Length: 14 min.
Year: 2017
Country: France
Language: French, subtitles available in English, Spanish, German, Portuguese and Greek
Saoud faces a violent series of accusations which will lead to his fall and exile.

Sons of
Length: 19 min.
Year: 2017
Country: France
Language: French, English subtitles
This film captures the dreams and desires of orphans.

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton: Cost of Conversion
Length: 3 min.
Year: 2021
Country: USA
Language: English
What are you willing to sacrifice for those you love?

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton: I Am a Mother
Length: 3 min.
Year: 2021
Country: USA
Language: English
Mother Seton wasn't just a mother to the women in her religious order or to her students...she was a mother to five children.

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton: Seeker to Saint
Length: 16 min.
Year: 2021
Country: USA
Language: English
The life and legacy of Mother Seton, the first American canonized saint.

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton: Storybook Romance
Length: 3 min.
Year: 2021
Country: USA
Language: English
Before she was Mother Seton, she was Mrs. Seton...and this is her love story.

St. Vincent de Paul Five Virtues from Vin Fam TV, India
Length: 3 to 9 min.
Year: 2022
Country: India
Language: English
During Vincentian Month Vincentian Family India Television (Vin Fam TV) posted a novena featuring the Vincentian Virtues.

Strings
Length: 11 min.
Year: 2014
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish, English subtitles
María's routine at school is altered by the arrival of a very special child. Soon, they become close friends.

SVP from 1833 to now
Length: 2 min.
Year: 2020
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
The history of the SSVP, Frederic Ozanam and the international growth of the Society.

The Bird Painter
Length: 3 min.
Year: 2017
Country: USA, Honduras
Language: English
This film questions art and creation. It dives into the idea that what we create already has a life of its own.

The Most Beautiful Thing
Length: 11 min.
Year: 2012
Country: USA
Language: English
This short film is a love story between two unlikely people.

The Neighbors’ Window
Length: 21 min.
Year: 2019
Country: USA
Language: English
The story of a mother who has grown frustrated with her husband and her daily routine. But her life is shaken up when two free-spirited twenty-somethings move in across the street and she discovers that she can see into their apartment.

The Prodigal
Length: 7 min.
Year: 2018
Country: Thailand
Language: English
Who is worthy of acceptance, forgiveness, and celebration?

The Silent Child
Length: 20 min.
Year: 2017
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
A deaf 6-year-old girl named Libby lives in a world of silence until a caring social worker gives her the gift of communication.

The Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul of Paderborn Dance!
Length: 3 min.
Year: 2021
Country: Germany
Language: n/a
A dance goes around the world! With their dance the Paderborn Vincentians want to set an example for people in need and give courage and strength in these challenging times.

They Won’t Let a Dream Come True
Length: 2 min.
Year: 2018
Country: Pakistan
Language: English
What is lost when we do not allow people to dream?

Third Kind
Length: 32 min.
Year: 2018
Country: Greece
Language: English subtitles
What ideas create the history we hold and the events we remember?

This Is Not a PSA
Length: 3 min.
Year: 2018
Country: USA
Language: English
People of color share their powerful messages of being black in America.

Too Quick To Judge
Length: 4 min.
Year: 2014
Country: USA
Language: English
A short-film that teaches us that we shouldn't be too quick to judge people.

Two Strangers Who Meet Five Times
Length: 12 min.
Year: 2017
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Alistair and Samir meet five different times, but it is only when they meet as old men that they can finally put their prejudices aside and meet as friends.