Film festival to mark Mother Teresa's sainthood
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(Vatican Radio) A film festival celebrating the life of Blessed Mother Teresa will begin in her adopted hometown of Kolkata in eastern India, in the run-up to her sainthood ceremony on September 4 in the Vatican. Predominantly featuring documentaries, the three-day long the Mother Teresa International Film Festival (MTIFF) begins Aug. 26 at Kolkata's Nandan multiplex. Organized by the Indian chapter of SIGNIS, the World Catholic Association for Communication, the film festival will travel to numerous locations around India and then go overseas. Festival director Sunil Lucas said they would present the best and the biggest repertoire of films and documentaries made on the Nobel laureate and inspired by her life. "The objective is to spread the message of Mother Teresa before the world. We want to raise awareness and sensitize the people," he told PTI. Organizers are planning around 20 movies out of which two will have worl...
(Vatican Radio) A film festival celebrating the life of Blessed Mother Teresa will begin in her adopted hometown of Kolkata in eastern India, in the run-up to her sainthood ceremony on September 4 in the Vatican. Predominantly featuring documentaries, the three-day long the Mother Teresa International Film Festival (MTIFF) begins Aug. 26 at Kolkata's Nandan multiplex. Organized by the Indian chapter of SIGNIS, the World Catholic Association for Communication, the film festival will travel to numerous locations around India and then go overseas. Festival director Sunil Lucas said they would present the best and the biggest repertoire of films and documentaries made on the Nobel laureate and inspired by her life. "The objective is to spread the message of Mother Teresa before the world. We want to raise awareness and sensitize the people," he told PTI.
Organizers are planning around 20 movies out of which two will have world premieres. Other Indian cities where the films will be screened include Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Udaipur, Guwahati, Patna, Indore, Ranchi and four cities of Kerala. The film festival will also travel to around 50 other countries including the UK, Malaysia, Ireland, Italy, Australia, Thailand, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and China. The two films which will have world premiere are "Love till it hurts" by Pauline Sisters and "Memories of Mother", made by a London-based filmmaker. Most of the films in the festival are documentaries. Notable among them are 'Making of a Saint' and 'In the Name of God's Poor', which stars Charlie Chaplin's daughter Geraldine as Mother Teresa. Another important work is from Emmy Award winning directors Ann and Jeannette Petrie who made "Mother Teresa: The Legacy" which was official film of the occasion of her Beatification in Rome.
This is the fourth edition of the Mother Teresa International Fil Festival, which is held on special occasions associated with the 1979 Nobel Peace laureate. The first MTIFF was held in 2003 immediately after her beatification, the second on her 10th death anniversary in 2007 while the third edition, in 2010, marked her birth centenary. "No saint or blessed in the Catholic Church's history has had an international festival of films dedicated to him/her," said Fr C M Paul, who first led the first and second edition of MTIFF.
Pope Francis announced in March that Mother Teresa would be declared a saint at a canonization or sainthood ceremony on September 4, the eve of her 19th death anniversary. Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu of Albanian parents on August 26, 1910, in Skopje, in what is Macedonia today, Mother Teresa died in Kolkata, on September 5, 1997. Affectionately known as the "saint of the gutter" for her unconditional love for the poor, abandoned and the marginalized, the naturalized Indian earned numerous national and international honours.
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