| Director: | Teona Strugar Mitevska |
|---|---|
| Production: | Entre Chien et Loup, Sisters and Brother Mitevski, Rainy Days Productions, Frau Film, SCCA/pro.ba, Raging Films |
| Running Time: | 104’ |
| Language: | English |
| Country: | Belgium, North Macedonia |
| Year: | 2025 |
| Main Cast: | Noomi Rapace, Sylvia Hoeks, Nikola Ristanovski |
| Screenplay: | Goce Smilevski, Teona Strugar Mitevska, Elma Tataragić |
| Cinematographer: | Virginie Saint Martin |
| Editor: | Per K. Kirkegaard |
| Production Designer: | Vuk Mitevski |
| Costume Designer: | Claudine Tychon |
| Music: | Magali Gruselle, Flemming Nordkrog |
| Sound: | Grégory Lannoy, Jayadevan Chakkadath, Ingrid Simon, Peter Albrechtsen, Kristoffer Salting |
| Visual Effects: | Haymaker |
Cinema
Mother
Orizzonti
Synopsis
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.
Director’s Statement
It has taken me twenty-five years exactly to arrive where I am today and make Mother, a film that fully represents me and who I want to be: bold, audacious and free. As I have reached my freedom, I also offer her her own. Mother Teresa was a mother indeed, but to millions. She was strict, harsh, disciplinarian, yet motherly beyond our comprehension. Some of the dialogues in the film are direct transcriptions of the interviews I conducted with the last living sisters and witnesses to her character while I was making Teresa and I, a documentary I shot in Kolkata. 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. Our Mother is thirty- seven years old, and the film follows seven days in her life. I present this Mother almost as a CEO of multi- national company, relentless and ambitious. I judge her sainthood by her deeds and not by her saintly manners. Let’s celebrate women as they are, not just selfless martyrs or eternal victims, but as fully developed characters, as persons that can have other ambitions than becoming someone’s wife. She was far from perfect, but she was truly remarkable. Telling a female story in a masculine way, or in other words, opting for the established and accepted model of narration is not what the film does. Mother is a thought-provoking film, it offers a perspective on sainthood, womanhood, and sisterhood too... and, yes, motherhood!
Production/distribution
PRODUCTION 1:
Entre Chien et Loup - Sébastien Delloye
88, Rue Gachard
1050 Ixelles, Belgium
Tel: +32 490219276
E-mail: info@entrechienetloup.be
PRODUCTION 2:
Sisters Brother Mitevski – Labina Mitevska
F. Ruzvelt 4/38
1000 Skopje, North Macedonia
Tel: +389 02 311 94 96
E-mail: labina@sistersandbrothermitevski.com
OTHER PRODUCTIONS:
Piodor Gustafsson - Rainy Days Productions;
Maria Møller Christoffersen - Frau Film;
Grégoire Melin - Kinology
WORLD SALES:
Kinology - Grégoire Melin
30, rue Moret
75011 Paris, France
Tel: +33 6 87 51 03 96
E-mail: gmelin@kinology.eu
ITALIAN DISTRIBUTOR:
Adler Entertainment S.r.l. - Marco Colombo
Corso Venezia, 6
20121 Milano, Italia
Tel: +39 3666953099
E-mail: adua.rocca@adler-ent.com
PRESS OFFICE:
Gloria Zerbinati
Via Palmiro Togliatti 15
45010 Rovigo, Italia
Tel: +33 0786800282
E-mail: gloria.zerbinati@gmail.com
