Who
Marcin Schmidt
Founder · Educator · Poland
A Catholic priest, co-founder and secretary general of the 5P Global Movement, an international movement that came together at the G20 Religious Forum in Bali in 2022 and was formally launched in Jakarta a year later. The five Ps stand for peace, prosperity, people, planet and partnership, and the movement now runs chapters in Indonesia and Poland. It staged the opening of the first World Children's Day in Rome, and with Singapore's Temasek Foundation it holds the secretariat of the Harmony in Diversity Award for South-East Asia.
He comes to Warsaw with Aldeas – A New Story. Aldeas is the film initiative of Scholas Occurrentes, the worldwide educational movement founded by Pope Francis: young people in several parts of the world make short fiction films about the things that actually concern them. Martin Scorsese produced the documentary about that work, which carries the Pope's last long interview on camera and screened at the Vatican in April 2026.
His own line on why any of this matters is short: technology should serve the story, and the story should serve the human person. That is the question he brings to a festival about artificial intelligence, rather than a tool.
