Teona Strugar Mitevska: Mother Teresa was not perfect. She was human.
The North Macedonian filmmaker portrays Mother Teresa not as an icon, but as an ambitious and contradictory woman.
Teona Mitevska with Noomi Rapace and Sylvia Hoeks at the 82nd Venice Film Festival. Photo: North Macedonian Film Agency
Still from the movie Mother
"I describe her as a rebel, even as some kind of Robin Hood."
Still from the movie Mother
Her beliefs were so strong that she simply moved forward.
Still from the movie Mother
From the beginning, I have described her as a woman from the Balkans.
"How much are we, as smaller countries, influenced by foreign powers and outside forces?"
Poster of the movie Mother
Uran Haxha
Uran Haxha is a journalist at K2.0, covering the economy, with a primary focus on energy, the environment, and climate change. He has worked for several local media outlets. He studied marketing and management.