Overview
- The documentary, which screened Wednesday at the Vatican and premiered the same day in Asti, drew Bergoglio’s relatives who shared personal tributes.
- Produced by Italian broadcaster Telepace with Vatican media, the film was shot in 2024 across Buenos Aires.
- The story retraces his life in the Flores and Almagro neighborhoods and argues that his early choices prefigured papal themes like a “field hospital” church and a stand against the “globalization of indifference.”
- It spotlights his work in the city’s poorest districts, including the Vicariate of the shantytowns and the Hogares de Cristo recovery network, which now counts about 300 centers in Argentina.
- Further screenings are slated for Lampedusa on April 10 and Rome’s Regina Coeli prison, signaling a commemorative tour that echoes his concern for migrants and people behind bars.