On Wednesday, West Newton Cinema screened Cosmic Coda for its local spotlight programming, followed by a discussion with filmmaker Mary Jane Doherty, associate professor emerita at Boston University, and Peter Fritschel, a senior research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Kavli Institute.

On Tuesday night, Medicine, Education, and Development to Low Income Families Everywhere (MEDLIFE) hosted a screening of Girl Rising, a documentary following the lives of girls across the globe in the pursuit of education despite gender and financial barriers.

On Thursday, the history department, the African and African Diaspora Studies Program, the Jesuit Institute, Catholic Studies, and Gregory Kalscheur, SJ, the Dean of Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences, will host a screening of The Passage at St. Augustine in McGuinn 121 at 4:15 p.m.