Pope Francis received at the Vatican, in a reserved room adjacent to the Aula Nervi, a delegation from Tenderstories, a film production company, for the film Kordon (Confine), the documentary presented at the Maxxi Museum, during the seventeenth edition of the Rome Film Festival 2022, directed by Alice Tomassini and produced by Vatican Media and Tenderstories.

Kordon tells the story of five Ukrainian volunteers, who are in a station on the outskirts of Zahony, fighting a non-violent war, shuttling between Ukraine and Hungary to restore hope to a people under attack. A moving portrait of resistance, courage and female solidarity.

For the occasion, Moreno Zani, founder of Tenderstories, Malcolm Pagani, CEO of the company, Benedetta Cuzzeri and Attilio Lombardi of the board of directors, Massimo Leonardelli of External Relations and Alice Tomassini, director of the film, together with Paolo Ruffini, prefect of the Holy See’s Dicastery for Communication, presented the Holy Father with the documentary, a letter of thanks from Tenderstories and a book containing the stories of volunteer work told in the feature film. Stories mirrored in those of the more than seven million women and children who have fled the war, crossing a line as invisible as it is concrete as the border between two States, leaving behind their lives.