The feature film Mother Teresa & Mewas shot in India and England and financed 100% through donations and foundation funds. All the proceeds from the film will be donated via the Zariya Foundation to selected organizations dedicated to the education and healthcare of sick, disabled, and abandoned children living in poverty.
Swiss actress Jacqueline Fritschi‑Cornaz traveled to India twelve years ago with the goal of visiting Bollywood studios. On site, she was confronted with the misery of many children, and the images never left her.
The two main characters of Mother Teresa & Me are Teresa and Kavita: two women’s lives, passionately and uncompromisingly interwoven in two parallel stories in the film. Both women fulfill their vocation despite great doubts. This interlaced story presents Mother Teresa—the woman behind the myth—in a new dimension. Her loss of faith inspires Kavita, a young English woman with Indian roots, to discover true love and empathy in present‑day Kolkata.