In Viaggio

Italian producer, cinematographer, and documentary filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi realized that two of the thirty-seven trips Pope Francis had made through fifty-three countries in the first nine years of his pontificate contained images and itineraries very similar to those he had made in his 2016 documentaries 'Fuocoammare', which was a portrait of the Italian island of Lampedusa as a benchmark of the European migration crisis for which he was nominated at the 2017 Academy-Awards, and 2020's documentary 'Notturno', a portrait of all the people who are trying to survive the war in the Middle East. Pope Francis himself had done a trip to the Lampedusa refugees landing and had gone in 2021 to the Middle East to show his support. In his expeditions, the ruler of Vatican City wanted to address his most significant concerns: poverty, immigration, solidarity, the environment, and war.

Inspired by this situation, filmmaker Rosi decided to create the documentary 'In Viaggio', where he selects together the images he had taken in his previous documentary productions and the archival footage of Pope Francis' journeys, creating a dialogue reflecting on the most recent history and the state of the world today.

The documentary is produced by 21 Unofilm, Stemal Entertainment, and Rai Cinema.

• Documentary