The filmmaker Martin Scorsese will premiere a documentary that will include a conversation that had with the papa Franciscodeceased on April 21. The film will enter several communities and cultures from different parts of the world.
The documentary is titled Aldeas – A new story And it has been produced by the director and by Occurrent Scholasan International Pontifical Law Organization created by Francisco in 2013 to promote culture and social inclusion.
According to Scholas Occurrentes on its social networks, the film is “the final dream of Pope Francis.” Adds that “Arraighed in the culture of the encounter, the film brings together various communities around the world to tell their own storiescelebrate their identities and protect their own cultural inheritances through cinema. “
Scorsese, who is Catholic, has several occasions with the Argentine pontiff and lamented his death ensuring that he will miss “Your presence and your warmth”.
The director of Taxi driver assured the magazine Variety That “was, in every way, an extraordinary human being. He recognized his own defects. Irradia wisdom and goodness and had a iron commitment to good. (…) hugged, preached and practiced universal and constant forgiveness. “
The director, who already led Jesus of Nazareth to the big screen with The last temptation of Christstarred by Willem Dafoe, He stressed that he was “lucky” to meet the Pope.
In 2024, He met in the Vatican with the Pontiff While preparing his next project, a film based on the novel The life of Jesuspublished in 1973 by the Japanese author Shasaku Endo.
Before, in 2016, Scorsese He showed the Pope his film Silenceon the mission to Japan of the seventeenth century of the Jesuits, a company to which Francisco belonged.
