US EditionMartin Scorsese Set to Unveil New Film Honouring Pope Francis at Vatican
The film includes Pope Francis’s last on-screen testimony and communities in Italy, Indonesia and The Gambia sharing their own stories.
- On Tuesday, the Vatican hosts a private premiere of Aldeas, The Final Dream of Pope Francis, a documentary produced by Martin Scorsese, marking the one-year anniversary of Pope Francis's death.
- Rooted in Francis's vision, the project showcases Scholas Occurrentes, a global educational movement that holds workshops helping local communities create scripted films celebrating their unique identities and values.
- Collaborating with the pontiff, Scorsese filmed across Italy, Indonesia, and The Gambia, including a visit to his grandfather's village in Sicily, describing the work as a "tribute to the Holy Father."
- The film premiere coincides with a weeks-long dispute between current pontiff Pope Leo XIV and President Donald Trump over the U.S.-Israel war against Iran, while Leo XIV continues his tour of Africa.
- Beyond traditional cinema, the film positions storytelling as a force for a new culture, which Francis described as "an extraordinarily poetic and deeply transformative project" reaching the root of human life.
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By Gonzalo Jiménez, CNN en Español. American director Martin Scorsese presented his new film, "Villages: The Final Dream of Pope Francis," on Tuesday at a private screening in the Vatican, as part of the commemorative events for the first anniversary of Pope Francis's death. The film is a documentary directed by Scorsese along with Johnny Shipley and Clare Tavernor, and features the last in-depth interviews the pontiff gave before his passing.
One year after the death of Pope Francis, the Vatican opted for cinema as a way of remembering it: this Tuesday a private screening of the documentary Aldeas, The Final Dream of Pope Francis, a production by director Martin Scorsese, will be held in Rome a few meters from the place where the pontiff lived his last days.
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