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Movies on the House

Your ticket to the greatest films you have never seen. 

Some of the finest, provocative, beautifully made and stirring films don’t make it to the multiplex theaters. Or if they do, they disappear too quickly for most of us to see. MOTH is here to bring you, for free, some of the world’s greatest films that may have escaped your attention. MOTH screens films at the Andrew A. Robinson Jr. Theater and the UNF Gallery of Art on the UNF campus, and downtown at MOCA JacksonvilleEvery month during Fall and Spring Semester you have a chance to see the finest achievements in cinema. We scour the underground, the festivals, and the world, to give you must-see films that will warm, singe or burn you. If you can take the heat, come to the light.


Doors open at 7 p.m. with custom preshow videos by Hayden Palmer. Films screen at 7:30 p.m. All films are in Robinson Theater 14A/1314.

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History of MOTH

In 1998, UNF President Fretwell wanted to create a community centered on cinema. He established a fund that could provide students, faculty, staff and the wider community with great films to ponder, discuss, debate, be outraged and be moved by. He knew that film was the source of our most widely shared stories, and that watching films together helps us understand each other in a way that can never happen by watching films alone on our laptops, phones and televisions. He entrusted the project to Dr. Jason Mauro to develop the series. With the generous and unwavering support of President John A. Delaney, and the future support of the University, MOTH will continue to bring us together around a love of film.

The series was first housed at Regal Cinema on Beach Blvd. Following a generous donation of 35mm film equipment from Regal Inc, we began projecting films on campus. Now with HD digital replacing 35mm film, we project films in Andrew A. Robinson Jr. Theater's newly renovated screening rooms, the UNF Gallery of Art, and in the screening room of MOCA Jacksonville downtown.  

Headshot of Dr. Jason Mauro
In Memory of Dr. Jason Mauro
January 23, 1960 - January 24, 2025
For more than 20 years, Dr. Jason Mauro was the driving force behind MOTH, bringing challenging, thought-provoking films to the UNF community. He worked with determination to upgrade the Robinson Theater classrooms to the standards of cinema exhibition and invited us to gather in the dark and come to the light to share in his love of film. His warmth, sense of purpose, practices of care, and mentorship have profoundly affected his colleagues and students. The contributions Dr. Mauro made to students, faculty, staff and the wider community are immeasurable.
He will be greatly missed.

Upcoming Movies

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Flow

Cat is a solitary animal, but as its home is devastated by a great flood, he finds refuge on a boat populated by various species, and will have to team up with them despite their differences.

Visit Flow on the IMDB website

WEDNESDAY,  SEPTEMBER 3, 2025, 7:30 P.M.

ROBINSON THEATER, BUILDING 14A / ROOM 1314

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Dìdi

In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can't teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.

Visit Dìdi on the IMDB website

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2025, 7:30 P.M.

ROBINSON THEATER, BUILDING 14A / ROOM 1314

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Banned Together

Visionary teenagers, public protests, threats, criminal charges, and drama-filled school board meetings: this is the explosive world of BANNED TOGETHER, the first feature documentary about fighting book bans and censorship in the U.S.

Visit Banned Together on the IMDB website

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2025, 7:30 P.M.

ROBINSON THEATER, BUILDING 14A / ROOM 1314

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Joyland

The youngest son in a traditional Pakistani family takes a job as a backup dancer in a Bollywood-style burlesque and quickly becomes infatuated with the strong-willed trans woman who runs the show.

Visit Joyland on the IMDB website

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2025, 7:30 P.M.

ROBINSON THEATER, BUILDING 14A / ROOM 1314

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Cuckoo

Seventeen-year-old Gretchen reluctantly leaves America to live with her father at a resort in the German Alps. Plagued by strange noises and bloody visions, she soon discovers a shocking secret that concerns her own family.

Visit Cuckoo on the IMDB website

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2025, 7:30 P.M.

ROBINSON THEATER, BUILDING 14A / ROOM 1314

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I'm Still Here

A woman married to a former politician during the military dictatorship in Brazil is forced to reinvent herself and chart a new course for her family after a violent and arbitrary act.

Visit I'm Still Here on the IMDB website

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12 2025, 7:30 P.M.

ROBINSON THEATER, BUILDING 14A / ROOM 1314

Past Movies