The project will highlight scripted short films from international communities along with snippets of a conversation between the director and the pontiff, who died last month.

Martin Scorsese is a producing a documentary made with Pope Francis that will chronicle the late pontiff’s work with cinema in the global educational movement he founded before his death.

Martin Scorsese will honor the late Pope Francis by producing ‘Aldeas – A New Story,’ a feature-length documentary and worldwide cultural project developed by Scholas Occurrentes, the global educational movement founded by the Pope.