«No one is born anywhere. Places are part of our identity. Every place is a story.” Paolo Ruffini, prefect of the Dicastery for Communication of the Holy See, in presenting the documentary “L’Argentina di Francesco”, the documentary by Eugenio Bonanataexplains that, «to tell a story you have to live it, walk inside it, go to the places. Meeting people.” And this is why this work is important, because, one year after the death of Pope Francis, he tells his story from the beginning, going where it began. In Buenos Aires, in the neighborhoods of Flores and Almagro. He does this by speaking with direct witnesses.” Rubin and Ambrogetti, who signed his biography before he became Pope, his students, the priests, the simple faithful who knew him.
And looking at the pictures, the Pontificate acquires, if possible, even greater strength. Because we see it in the continuity of the life of the young Jorge Mario Bergoglio, of the priest, of the bishop, of the cardinal. The confessional where his vocation was born, at the crossroads with a trip with a friend that would never happen, the oratory of Almagro, where he plays football and learns to love San Lorenzo, in the villas miserias where he sends and supports Father Pedro, the dusty streets where he practices that «Field hospital church» which we have heard him mention several times. The meeting with ordinary people, his incitement to «move forward, always forward», his predilection for the little ones. The newspaper bought alone crossing the square where the cathedral stands, the lady confessed on the bus, the subway ticket paid to a friend, the bagna cauda “with cream” eaten with the Piedmontese who emigrated to Argentina. The documentary gives us back the places in which, as Ruffini still says, «there is the secret of a pontiff who marked the history of the Church. This is the origin of Pope Francis’ motto, “miserando waters eligendo”. And of that all all all repeated at the WYD in Lisbon as an appeal. Todos, todos, todos.”
THEn air on the 21st evening on tv2000 the documentary, already presented in Asti with the relatives of Pope Francis, will be screened in Lampedusa and Regina Coeli, the first and last place of a Pontificate which, from migrants to prisoners, passing through each of us, has embraced humanity.
