University Union will host an advance screening of Jennifer Lawrence’s new film “Red Sparrow” this week. The screening will be at 7 p.m. on Thursday in Shemin Auditorium in the Shaffer Art Building at Syracuse University. The showing will be followed by a virtual Q&A session with lead actress Lawrence and director Francis Lawrence.

SU was selected as one of six colleges to host an advance screening of the film, which is coming to theaters on Friday.

Also starring Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts and Charlotte Rampling, “Red Sparrow” is the story of prima ballerina Dominika Egorova’s family struggle following her career-ending injury. Egorova is recruited by the Sparrow School in Russia, where she learns tactics of harmful manipulation. She later emerges as the most dangerous Sparrow in the school’s history and is tasked with targeting a CIA agent.

The screening is presented by UU in partnership with the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, the College of Visual and Performing Arts Department of Transmedia and 20th Century Fox.

The screening is free for SU and SUNY-ESF students, faculty and staff. Attendees are encouraged to RSVP, although RSVPing does not guarantee a seat — admittance is first-come, first-served.

Doors open at 6:15 p.m. The virtual Q&A will take place immediately following the film at 9:30 p.m.