The filmmaker Martin Scorsese will premiere a documentary that will include a posthumous conversation with Pope Francis, who died on April 21. In the film, the director of classics such as Wild bull o Taxi Driverit enters several communities and cultures throughout the planet. The documentary is titled Aldeas-A new story And it has been produced by Scorsese and Occurrent Scholas, an international pontifical law organization created by Francisco in 2013 to promote culture and social inclusion.
The documentary, according to Occurrent Scholas in his social networks, was “the final dream of Pope Francis.” “The film brings together various communities around the world to tell their stories, celebrate their identities and protect their own cultural inheritances through cinema,” explains the note. In the tape, youth of Indonesia, Gambia and Italy are shown.
The statement adds that the documentary is “a testimony of the belief that creativity is not only a means of expression, but a path to hope and transformation.” The Pope had described the film as “an extremely poetic and very constructive project because it goes to the roots of what is human life, human sociability, human conflicts … the essence of the path of a life.”
Scorsese, Catholic, was several times with the Argentine pontiff, of whom he regretted his death, ensuring that he will miss “his presence and warmth.” “It was, in every way, an extraordinary human being. He recognized his own defects. It irradiated wisdom and goodness and had a strong commitment to good (…) hugged, preached and practiced universal and constant forgiveness.”
“He knew at the bottom of his soul that ignorance was a terrible plague for humanity. Therefore, he never stopped learning. And he never stopped enlightening. And hugged, preached and practiced forgiveness. A universal and constant forgiveness,” added Scorsese, who added that he was “lucky to meet” the pontiff. “It is an immense loss for the world. But he left a light that can never go out.”
On the film, the filmmaker has declared: “Now, more than ever, we need to talk to each other, listen to each other interculturally. One of the best ways to achieve it is to share our stories, reflected in our personal lives and experiences. This helps us understand and assess how each of us sees the world. For Pope Francis it was important that people around the world exchange ideas with respect, preserving at the same time their cultural identity. To achieve it. ”
The filmmaker already took Jesus of Nazareth to the big screen in The last temptation of Christstarred by Willem Dafoe.
Scorsese met in the Vatican with Francisco last year, while preparing his next project, a film based on the novel The life of Jesuspublished in 1973 by Japanese author Shusaku Endo. Before, in 2016, he showed the Pope his film Silenceon the mission to Japan of the seventeenth century of the Jesuits, a company to which Francisco belonged.
The conclave to choose a new Pope will begin next Wednesday, May 7.
