
With 'Mother', Mitevska Restores Mother Teresa’s Humanity
Bélinda Ibrahim, 19:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Mother Teresa Film Cinema Venice Film Festival Culture
Who was the real Mother Teresa? In Mother, Macedonian director Teona Strugar Mitevska reexamines the legend to reveal a woman far beyond the clichés. Premiering in the Orizzonti section at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, the movie focuses on seven pivotal days in 1948 that forever changed Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, the woman who would become Mother ...