Pope Leo said cinema, which marks its 130th anniversary this year, had grown from a simple play of light and shadow into a form capable of revealing humanity's deepest questions.
"Cinema is not just moving pictures; it sets hope in motion," he said, adding that entering a theatre was "like crossing a threshold" where the imagination widens.
A culture shaped by constant digital stimuli, however, risks reducing stories to whatever algorithms predict will succeed, he said.
"The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what works, but art opens up what is possible," he said, urging filmmakers to defend "slowness, silence and difference" when telling their stories.
The pope also encouraged artists to confront violence, war, poverty and loneliness with honesty, saying good cinema "does not exploit pain; it recognises and explores it".
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What he says here makes sense to me.
How about he stops hiding the Pedos his cult grooms… oh wait, they love that shit in Hollywood.
“Hey look over there, away from my child abusing clergy”