Abel Ferrara’s Padre Pio is not the hero of his movie.

While the path to creating a great story about Jesus is filled with good intentions, there are also a lot of landmines.

His stories often exploit the logical but worst possible outcomes of his characters’ spiraling depravity or despair. But Schrader’s faith always informs even his most profane films.

The conversation of “The Pope: Answers” offers a provocative image of what church could be.

“The Pope: Answers,” a new film on Hulu featuring the pope in conversation with 10 young Spanish-speaking people between the ages of 20 and 25, is a lived example of the culture of encounter to which Pope Francis exhorts us.

Ahead of the U.S. theatrical release of “In Viaggio: The Travels of Pope Francis,” America spoke with Gianfranco Rosi about his ideas for the documentary and how the film is a modern-day Stations of the Cross.