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\n Pope Leo XIV blesses a baby in St. Peter\u2019s Square during his general audience on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025, at the Vatican. \/ Credit: Vatican Media<\/span>\n<\/div>\n

ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 10, 2025 \/ 18:32 pm (CNA).<\/p>\n

The Vatican has revealed the names of Pope Leo XIV\u2019s favorite films, including \u201cThe Sound of Music\u201d and \u201cIt\u2019s a Wonderful Life,\u201d upon announcing the Holy Father\u2019s upcoming meeting with the world of cinema on Saturday, Nov. 15.<\/p>\n

In total, the Vatican shared four titles of the \u201cmost significant films\u201d for Leo XIV:<\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s a Wonderful Life\u2019 (1946) by Frank Capra<\/h2>\n

The Christmas classic stars James Stewart as George Bailey, a man who has sacrificed his dreams because of his sense of responsibility and generosity but feeling like a failure, he contemplates suicide on Christmas Eve. This prompts the intervention of his guardian angel (Henry Travers), who shows him all the good he has done for many people. <\/p>\n

\u2018The Sound of Music\u2019 (1965) by Robert Wise<\/h2>\n

The film tells the story of a postulant at a convent in Austria in 1938.\u00a0 After discerning out, the postulant (Julie Andrews) is sent to the home of Captain Von Trapp, a widowed retired naval officer (Christopher Plummer) to be the governess of his seven children. After bringing love and music to the Von Trapp family, she eventually marries the captain. As Von Tapp refuses to accept a commission in the Nazi navy, the family is forced to leave Austria in a dramatic escape. <\/p>\n

\u2018Ordinary People\u2019 (1980) by Robert Redford<\/h2>\n

The film tells the story of the breakdown of a wealthy Illinois family after the death of one son in an accident and the suicide attempt of the other. It stars Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, and Timothy Hutton.<\/p>\n

\u2018Life Is Beautiful\u2019 (1997) by Roberto Benigni<\/h2>\n

In this film, Benigni \u2014 whose father spent two years in a prisoner-of-war camp \u2014 plays Guido Orefice, an Italian Jewish bookstore owner who uses his imagination to protect his young son from the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp during World War II.<\/p>\n

Nov. 15 meeting with the world of cinema <\/h2>\n

The meeting will take place on Saturday, Nov. 15, at 11 a.m. Rome time in the Apostolic Palace of Vatican City, according to a statement from the Dicastery for Culture and Education, in collaboration with the Vatican Museums.<\/p>\n

The event follows previous meetings with the world of visual arts (June 2023), comedy (June 2024), and the Jubilee of Artists and the World of Culture in February of this year.<\/p>\n

The Vatican statement highlights that Pope Leo XIV \u201chas expressed his desire to deepen the dialogue with the world of cinema, and in particular with actors and directors, exploring the possibilities that artistic creativity offers to the mission of the Church and the promotion of human values.\u201d<\/p>\n

Actors and directors the pope will meet<\/h2>\n

Among those who have already confirmed their participation are the Italian actresses Monica Bellucci, famous for her role as Mary Magdalene in Mel Gibson\u2019s \u201cThe Passion of the Christ,\u201d and Maria Grazia Cucinotta (\u201cIl Postino\u201d and \u201cThe World Is Not Enough.\u201d)<\/p>\n

Also joining the Holy Father will be, among others, American actress Cate Blanchett (\u201cThe Lord of the Rings,\u201d \u201cThe Aviator\u201d), the African-American director Spike Lee, the director Gus Van Sant (\u201cGood Will Hunting,\u201d \u201cElephant\u201d), the Australian director George Miller, creator of the Mad Max saga, and the Italian Giuseppe Tornatore, director of \u201cCinema Paradiso,\u201d for which he won the Oscar for best foreign film in 1989.<\/p>\n

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