Shorts

A Spiritual Journey With Saint Vincent de Paul, Day 1

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dance for Kindness

Length: 7 min.

Year: 2020

Country: Ukraine

Language: English

By the Nigerian Vincentian College Students in Kharkov, Ukraine.

Fatima

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

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

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)

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)

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Prodigal

Length: 7 min.

Year: 2018

Country: Thailand

Language: English

Who is worthy of acceptance, forgiveness, and celebration?

The Silent Child

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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.