The New Gospel

What would Jesus preach in the 21st century? Who would his disciples be? Set in the southern Italian town of Matera, where both Pasolini and Gibson shot their legendary films on the life of Jesus, a director returns to the origins of the gospel and stages it as a passion play of an entire civilization. Together with Cameroonian political activist Yvan Sagnet, they create a political campaign that fights for the rights of migrants who came to Europe across the Mediterranean to be enslaved on the tomato fields in southern Italy. A manifesto of solidarity with the poorest, a revolt for a more humane world.