| Director: | Gianfranco Rosi |
|---|---|
| Production: | 21Uno Film (Gianfranco Rosi) Stemal Entertainment (Donatella Palermo) with Rai Cinema |
| Running Time: | 80’ |
| Language: | Italian, Spanish, English |
| Country: | Italy |
| Cinematographer: | Cesare Cuppone,
Walter Capriotti
(riprese Archivio Vaticano), Gianfranco Rosi, |
| Editor: | Fabrizio Federico |
| Sound: | Gianfranco Rosi |
Cinema
In viaggio
Out of Competition
Synopsis
In 2013, just after his election, Pope Francis went to Lampedusa. In 2021 he made an important journey to the Middle East, going to Iraq and Kurdistan. The same places that Gianfranco Rosi had depicted in Fuocoammare and Notturno. In the nine years of his pontificate Francis has made thirty-seven journeys, visiting fifty-three countries. Whether in Italy, Brazil, Cuba, the United States, the African continent or Southeast Asia, his itineraries have followed the guiding thread of the central themes of our time: poverty, nature, migration, condemnation of all war, solidarity. In a sort of Via Crucis, Francis has born witness to the suffering of the world and found out how difficult it is to do more than offer the comfort of his words and his presence Gianfranco Rosi has retraced the pope’s journeys, watching the films that have documented them. Out of this has come his own film and its scheme is an extremely simple one: he follows the pope, looks at what he sees, listens to what he says. In observing the pontiff as he looks at the world, Rosi has established a dialogue at a distance between the archive footage of Francis’ pastoral journeys, the images of his own films, current events and recent history. Creating a balance between the linear flow of time and the memory of the cinema.
Director’s Statement
The film is the portrait of a man who makes us look farther and reflect on universal themes. The first challenge of In Viaggio was to couch films made to meet the needs of television in a cinematic language. As the editing proceeded, however, the need emerged to have the account of the pope’s journeys hold a dialogue with historic material from the archives and with pieces of some of my own films. And finally to shoot new scenes. Another challenge was to create an ending for a film that is in progress, destined to remain open. A film that in following Pope Francis’ journeys in the future will tackle new themes, new reflections.
PRODUCERS/DISTRIBUTORS
PRODUCTION 1: Gianfranco Rosi – 21UNO FILM SRL
Via Caio Mario, 7
00192 – Roma, Italia
Tel. +39 0639750019
Mob. +39 3510961112
sandrastemal@gmail.com
PRODUCTION 2: Donatella Palermo – STEMAL ENTERTAINMENT SRL
Via Caio Mario, 7
00192 – Roma, Italia
Tel. +39 0639750019
Mob. +39 3510961112
stemal.entertainment@gmail.com
PRODUCTION 3: Paolo Del Brocco – RAI CINEMA
Piazza Adriana 12
00193 – Roma, Italia
Tel. +39 0633179601
anna.pomara@raicinema.it
www.raicinema.it
WORLD SALES: Michael Weber – The Match Factory
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ITALIAN DISTRIBUTION: Luigi Lonigro – 01 Distribution
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00193 – Roma, Italia
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