In the first nine years of his pontificate, Pope Francis made 37 trips to 53 countries and focused on the most painful wounds in today’s society: poverty, migration, war, environmental issues. The film assembles a mosaic of these meetings, using both archival footage and images shot by director Gianfranco Rosi himself over the course of the visits during which he accompanied the Pope to Malta and Canada, in 2022. The moments of vulnerability, worry, and exhaustion engendered by one’s physical proximity to the Pope are not censored. Perhaps for the first time, the full extent of the Pope’s duties and the emotional baggage they come with are revealed to us: from defending the victims of the Armenian genocide to praying for the immigrants arriving in boats in Lampedusa and discussions with the crew of the International Space Station. This is a world the Pope travels far and wide, in which he nevertheless doesn’t actually live. More than a dialogue between the various realities united by the red thread of Catholicism, more than the portrait of one of the most revered persons in the world, the film leaves you with a feeling of hope in the possibility of goodness and the realization that we are the only ones responsible for it. (Sorana Stănescu)