India, Dec. 2 -- "I present this Mother almost as a CEO of a multinational company-relentless and ambitious," says Teona Strugar Mitevska about her new feature film based on Mother Teresa. Mitevska knows a thing or two about the Nobel Peace Prize-winning founder of the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata. She is a Macedonian, as Mother Teresa was before the famous nun became an Indian citizen. She was also born in the same town, Skopje, in the landlocked Balkan country (formerly part of Albania) in Southeast Europe where Mother Teresa was born in 1910.

Mother, Mitevska's new film screened at the 22nd Marrakech International Film Festival in Morocco this week, is set in Kolkata in 1948. Mother Teresa, a Catholic nun and then principal of S...