trailer and previews of the film Pope Francis
On 5 September it will be screened Out of Competition in the Official Selection of Venice 79 Travelling, the documentary on Pope Francis directed by Gianfranco Rosi (Mainland) which retraces the Pope’s travels by viewing the films that document them. After the stop at the Lido, “In Viaggio” will arrive in Italian cinemas on October 4th with 01 Distribution.
The plot
In 2013, just elected, Pope Francis goes to Lampedusa. In 2021 he makes an important trip to the Middle East, Iraq and Kurdistan. The same places that Gianfranco Rosi described in Fuocoammare and Notturno. In nine years of his pontificate, Pope Francis has made thirty-seven trips, visiting fifty-three countries. Italy, Brazil, Cuba, the United States, the continent and East Asia, his South African itineraries follow the red thread of the central themes of our time: poverty, nature, migration, the condemnation of every war, solidarity. In a sort of Via Crucis, Francis witnesses the suffering of the world and experiences the difficulty of doing more, in addition to the comfort of his words and the presence of him Gianfranco Rosi retraces the Pope’s travels by viewing the films that document them. The film was born and his scheme is extremely simple: you follow the Pope, look at what he sees, listen to what he says. In observing the pontiff who looks at the world, Rosi sets up a dialogue at a distance between the flow of the archive of pastoral journeys, the images of his cinema, current events and recent history. Creating a balance between the passage of linear time and the memory of cinema.
Traveling – trailers and videos
Curiosity
- In addition to directing, Gianfranco Rosi also took care of the photography and sound of “In Viaggio”. The film is edited by Fabrizio Federico (Martin Eden, Per Lucio). Federico and director Gianfranco Rosi also collaborated on documentaries Fire at sea And Night.
- Gianfranco Rosi is also the producer of “In Viaggio” with his 21Uno Film in collaboration with Stemal Entertainment (Donatella Palermo) and Rai Cinema.
Director’s note
The film is the portrait of a man who makes us look beyond and reflect on universal themes. The first challenge of In Viaggio was to transform films made for television needs into cinematographic language. As the editing progressed, however, the need matured to make the story of the Pope’s travels dialogue with materials from archives and with the fragments of some of my films. And finally work on new scenes shot by me. Another challenge was building an ending for a film in the making, destined to remain open. A film that in following Pope Francis’ upcoming trips will tackle new themes, new reflections. [Gianfranco Rosi]
Gianfranco Rosi – Biographical note
Gianfranco Rosi, born in Asmara, Eritrea, with Italian and American nationality, after attending university in Italy, moved to New York in 1985 and graduated from the New York University Film School. Following a trip to India, in 1993 he produces and directs Boatman, on a boatman on the banks of the Ganges, successfully presented at various international festivals including the Sundance Film Festival, the Locarno Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival. After the short film Afterwordswho participates in the 57th Venice International Film Festival, in 2008 in California, in Slab City, shoots the documentary film Below sea level, about a community of homeless people who live in the desert plain 40 meters below sea level: the film is the winner of the Best Film of Horizons at the Venice Film Festival and of Doc / It; it also won the Grand Prix, the Prix des Jeunes at the Cinéma du Réel, the award for best film at the One World Film Festival in Prague, the Vittorio De Seta Award at the Bif & st 2009 and is nominated for Best Documentary at the European Film Awards 2009 In 2010 it turns El Sicario – Room 164, film-interview from a story by Charles Bowden about a repentant killer of the Mexican drug trafficking cartels. The film won the Fipresci Award at the Venice Film Festival, the Doc / It award as Best Documentary of the year, Best Film at the DocLisboa in 2010 and at the Doc Aviv in 2011. In 2013 it won the Leone d’Oro in Venice with Holy Gra the film with which he tells an unprecedented humanity that lives around the Grande Raccordo Anulare of the capital. It is the first time that a documentary has won the Golden Lion. In 2016 Gianfranco Rosi won the Golden Bear for Best Film at the Berlin Film Festival with Fire at sea, stories from the island of Lampedusa, its inhabitants, fishermen and migrants. If in Italy he wins the Golden Globe, obtained the double nomination for the David di Donatello and the victory of a Nastro d’Argento, Fire in the sea (this is the international title) will bring Lampedusa, an island of migration, all over the world between festivals and theatrical releases, still gaining recognition such as the victory at the EFA, up to the Oscar nomination for Best Documentary.
Pope Francis – Biographical note
Pope Francis was born December 17, 1936 in Buenos Aires to Italian immigrants, entered the seminary as a Jesuit in 1958 and was
priest in 1969. Prior to his election as pope on March 13, 2013, Bergoglio was archbishop of Buenos Aires from 1998 to 2013 and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church from 2001 to 2013. He was named Person of the Year by Time Magazine in 2013 2013 and was nominated for the Nobel Prize for rhythm the following year. Although the tone and scope of his papacy are global, the characteristics that control him are humility and moderation. After settling in the Vatican in 2013, he chose to reside in a simple two-bedroom apartment rather than the lavish rooms of the Apostolic Palace, breaking a tradition from popes for over a century. After becoming Pope, he made himself known as a compassionate conservative whose famous comment in reference to homosexuality – “Who am I to judge?” – quickly defined it as inclusive, progressive and open when compared to its predecessors. He was equally progressive on issues relating to science, especially ecology and the environment. In 2015, he published a 184-page encyclical on the dangers of climate change in which he demanded that used fossil fuels be eliminated less and replaced by renewable energy. In addition, many of his speeches have spoken out against the misuse of political and economic power around the world. “Human beings, while capable of the worst, are also able to rise above themselves, opt for the good again and start over”, he declared in the encyclical, aimed at Catholics and Christians but also at all the inhabitants of the planet. In subsequent sermons and interviews, Pope Francis addressed a wide range of problems and concerns that required a series of reforms of the Catholic Church. “I prefer a wounded, aching and dirty Church because it has taken to the streets, rather than an unhealthy Church because it stays indoors, clinging to its own safety,” he said. “I don’t want a Church that wants to be at the center and then ends up being wrapped in a web of obsessions and procedures”. His first international visit was on July 22, 2013, when he went to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and visited the impoverished slums together with President Dilma Rousseff, immediately showing himself as a man of the people. Later, on September 7 of the same year, he celebrated a special prayer vigil for peace in Syria in St. Peter’s Square. In front of the 100,000 present, in his sermon he insisted on the fact that “when man thinks only of himself and becomes prey to the idols of domination and power, he opens the door to violence, indifference and conflict”. In the five years as Pope, Francis traveled to Paraguay, Bolivia, Ecuador, Myanmar, Bangladesh and Chile, where he addressed the issue of sexual abuse perpetrated by members of his Church. “Here is a man in whom God – or the spirit of God – dwells and who is not afraid to face any kind of question about humanity”, says Don Dario Edoardo Viganò, the former prefect of the Secretariat of Vatican Communications, who had the idea for A man of his word. “He is able to communicate very easily the idea that the human being is a place where the presence of God can be noticed.”
Pope Francis in cinema and on TV
Francesco from Buenos Aires – The Revolution of equalityItalian documentary film of 2014, directed by Miguel Rodriguez Arias and Fulvio Iannucci, which traces the life of Pope Francis from childhood to his election to the papal throne.
Call me Francesco – The Pope of the peopleItalo-Argentine film directed by Daniele Luchetti that tells the youth of Pope Francis, played by Rodrigo de la Serna as a young man and Sergio Hernández as an elderly man.
Point of no return – Before the flood directed by Fisher Stevens (2016)
Pope Francis – A man of his worddirected by Wim Wenders (2018)
I have to dad directed by Fernando Meirelles (2019)