(August 16, 2016) On the occasion of the canonization of Blessed Mother Teresa, the Italian Cultural Institute of Tirana, in collaboration with the Municipality of the Albanian capital, presents the documentary "The first love of Mother Teresa," written and directed by Folco Terzani. The date is Wednesday, September 7 at the Cloud Fujimoto (8 PM). The author will attend the screening and will give direct testimony of his life experience volunteering at the House of the Dying in Calcutta for a year. Journalist Majlinda Cullhaj will host the event. "The First Love of Mother Teresa" is the latest authorized documentary on Mother Teresa: a work that shows the essence of her message and the daily work that taught to do with the poorest of the poor in the very first house that she opened, the House the Dying in Calcutta, a place so dear to her that she used to call it "my first love." (Red)

PROFILE / FOLCO TERZANI

Folco Terzani is a writer and documentary filmmaker. He was born in New York and grew up in Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing, Tokyo, Bangkok and New Delhi, following his father's movements throughout the Asian continent. In Beijing, he attended public schools and graduated in Modern Literature at Cambridge and attended New York University Film School. For nearly a year he worked at the House of the Dying Mother Teresa of Calcutta, which he used to drawn experience for the documentary "The first love of Mother Teresa." In the book "The End Is My Beginning" (Longanesi 2006) he has collected his last conversations with his father Tiziano, from which he then wrote the screenplay of the film. He is the author of the book "Barefoot on the ground".