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EXCLUSIVE: A group of 200 refugees and immigrants, some newly arrived from Afghanistan, attended a special Vatican screening of the discovery+ documentary Francesco Monday night, and later met with Pope Francis himself. "When the movie finished he was downstairs waiting for them," Oscar-nominated director Evgeny Afinee…

Pope Francis is coming to Discovery+ in time for Easter. The subscription streamer said Wednesday that it has acquired Evgeny Afineevsky's documentary Francesco, an exploration of the pope's ministry and moral leadership in a time of surging right-wing populist movements, a worldwide refugee crisis, and the Covid-19…

It's the rare documentary film premiere that triggers worldwide headlines, but that's what has happened with Evgeny Afineevsky's Francesco. The film about Pope Francis debuted at the Rome Film Festival today and first the Catholic press and then secular media picked up on something the pope told Afineevsky in the…

Pope Francis has publicly supported same-sex civil unions for the first time while in office, declaring that "homosexual people have the right to be in a family". His comments were made in a documentary, Francesco, which premiered at the Rome Film Fest today. Directed by Russian filmmaker Evgeny Afineevsky, the…

Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Laura Nix was supposed to board a flight to Copenhagen today, en route to the CPH:DOX festival to pitch her latest project. But the COVID-19 pandemic abruptly forced that event to shift online only, one of countless ways the coronavirus emergency is impacting the documentary…