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. “Aldeas — A New Story” will feature conversations between Pope Francis and Scorsese,

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.