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Martin Scorsese will produce a new documentary featuring an on-camera interview with Pope Francis that was recorded at Vatican City in December, a few months before the pope died at the age of 88<\/a>.<\/p>\n The film, \u201cAldeas \u2014 A New Story,\u201d is about the worldwide cultural project developed by Scholas Occurrentes, a global educational movement founded by Francis in 2013, the same year he was elected pope<\/a>. Communities around the world will create scripts for short films that highlight their identities, histories and values.<\/p>\n Snippets of the conversation between the pope and Scorsese will be interwoven into the film, which does not have a release date.<\/p>\n In a statement on Wednesday, Scorsese said it was important to Francis for \u201cpeople across the globe to exchange ideas with respect while also preserving their cultural identity, and cinema is the best medium to do that.\u201d Before the pope\u2019s death, Francis called \u201cAldeas\u201d a poetic project because it \u201cgoes to the roots of what human life is.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The project punctuates a long relationship between the pope and Scorsese, whose work has sometimes been religious in nature. When \u201cThe Last Temptation of Christ\u201d<\/a> was released in 1988, it drew protests and outrage<\/a> from religious groups.<\/p>\n In 2016, Scorsese met with Francis to discuss his movie \u201cSilence,\u201d<\/a> a drama about a Portuguese Jesuit priest who heads to 17th-century Japan, where Christians are persecuted. They met again in 2023, when Scorsese announced he would make another film about Jesus. The director\u2019s most recent project, \u201cMartin Scorsese Presents: The Saints,\u201d<\/a> dramatizes the lives of eight Catholic saints.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n