MOTHER North Macedonia-Sweden-Belgium-Denmark-Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2025, 103 min, color
Kolkata, India, August 1948. Teresa, Mother Superior of the convent of the Sisters of Loreto, is anxiously waiting for the letter that will finally allow her to leave her monastery and create a new order in response to the call she has received from God. And just as everything seems ready, she finds herself faced with a dilemma that challenges her own ambitions and faith at a major turning point in her life.
“Mother Teresa was born in Skopje. As an Albanian from Macedonia, she is a perfect example of the multiethnic diversity of my country and the all-embracing humanity within it. Mother Teresa is a controversial figure and her stance on abortion in particular is a stumbling block in her trajectory, one that’s difficult to understand from today’s perspective, for some of us at least, while approved by many as well. We chose to tell her story before she became the Mother Teresa we know today.”
Teona Mitevska
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS
Venice “25 – Nominee Horizons Award (Best Film)
Teona Mitevska
Born in Skopje, Macedonia in 1974, she currently lives there and in Brussels. Her first brush with film was as a child actor. She has a degree in graphic design and studied film at the Tisch School of the Arts in New York. Her short film “Veta“ screened in Panorama of Berlin film festival. Her feature film “Jas sum od Titov Veles“, which screened at over 80 festivals worldwide and won over 20 awards, as well as “The Woman Who Brushed Off Her Tears“ and “When the Day Had no Name“ have all screened at the Berlinale. She runs the Sisters and Brother Mitevski production company with her siblings Vuk and Labina.
1999 Why is Betty Boop Angry – short
2000 Amer in Amerika – doc. short
2001 Veta – short
2004 How I Killed a Saint (Kako ubiv svetec)
2008 I Am From Titov Veles (Jas sum od Titov Veles)
2012 The Woman Who Brushed Off Her Tears
2017 When the Day Had No Name (Koga denot nemase ime)
2019 God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunia (Gospod postoi, imeto i' e Petrunija)
2022 The Happiest Man in the World (Najsrekjniot chovek na svetot)
2025 Mother
MOTHER North Macedonia-Sweden-Belgium-Denmark-Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2025, 103 min, color
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