The Flowers of St. Francis

A Movie for Today... And All Time

A luminous, meditative portrait of spiritual community built through small acts of humility and compassion, rendered with the visual grace of medieval devotional art.

In a series of simple and joyous vignettes, director Roberto Rossellini and co-writer Federico Fellini lovingly convey the universal teachings of the People’s Saint: humility, compassion, faith, and sacrifice. Gorgeously photographed to evoke the medieval paintings of Saint Francis’s time, and cast with monks from the Nocera Inferiore Monastery, The Flowers of St. Francis is a timeless and moving portrait of the search for spiritual enlightenment.