IN VIAGGIO: THE TRAVELS OF POPE FRANCIS

IN VIAGGIO: THE TRAVELS OF POPE FRANCIS
(In viaggio)
2022, 70′

Director: Gianfranco Rosi
Country: Italy
Distributor: Rai Cinema
Language: Italian version

Over a period of 9 years, Pope Francis made 37 trips to 59 countries. Italy, Brazil, Cuba, the United States, Africa, and Southeast Asia, his trips are aligned with the central themes of our times: poverty, nature, migration, the condemnation of every war, solidarity.
With In Viaggio, Rosi returns to the theme of travel, which is central to all his work, and takes up the challenge of turning archive television footage―much of it never used―of the pope’s trips into cinematic material. The outcome of this meticulous and visionary editing is a never-before-seen portrait, unconnected with either theology or ideology, of an iconic figure in the contemporary world.

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