Francisco De Buenos Aires [DVD]

The documentary Francisco de Buenos Aires, directed by the experienced Miguel Rodríguez Arias, shows Jorge Mario Bergoglio from a secular perspective and presents his political role through the Roman Catholic Apostolic Church, which had never elected a Latin American Supreme Pontiff. A few minutes after the election of the Argentine cardinal, I was caught by curiosity as to why it was done. I investigated its history and the decision was clear to me, commented its director and screenwriter, Miguel Rodríguez Arias. It is a documentary that rescues the religious aspects, but also the political and sociological ones and for that reason the film is necessarily biographical, and portrays from childhood to the man, the priest and the politician Jorge Bergoglio, as well as the primate and now head of a very rich and powerful state, with assets all over the world and nearly 700 inhabitants, but which has an estimated one billion two hundred million faithful throughout the world. To put together the multiple aspects of Bergoglio's portrait, Rodríguez Arias interviewed Cardinal Jorge Mejía, highly trusted by the Supreme Pontiff, Monsignor Darío Viganó and the Vaticanologists Elisabetta Piqué and Yago de la Cierva. It also has the rich testimony of María Elena Bergoglio, sister of Francisco; Rabbi Abraham Skorka, Francesca Ambroghetti, Rabbi Daniel Goldman and Omar Abboud, co-founders of the Institute of Interfaith Dialogue.