CA | 2009 | colour | 96 min
reż|dir Xavier Dolan pro|pro Xavier Dolan, MIFILIFILMS sce|sc Xavier Dolan zdj|ph Stéphanie Anne Weber Biron muz|mus Nicholas Savard-L’Herbier mon|ed Hélène Girard ob|cast Anne Dorval, Xavier Dolan, François Arnaud dys|dis Tongariro Releasing

“I Killed My Mother” is an unusual film about growing up – Xavier Dolan’s, director of “Heartbeats” debut. Hubert is a rebellious teenager, who hates his mother. He dislikes her taste, unfashionable clothes and cheap trinkets. But most of all he hates this feeling of guilt, that she is trying to arouse in him. On the other hand mother doesn’t understand what is going on with her beloved child. She feels helpless. She sees, that her son is moving away from her.

AWARDS
2009 Cannes Film Festival – C.I.C.A.E. Award, Prix Regards Jeune, SACD Prize (Directors’ Fortnight)
2010 Palm Springs International Film Festival – FIPRESCI Prize – Best Actress Anne Dorval
Reykjavik International Film Festival 2009 – Golden Puffin
2009 Satellite Awards– nomination in category Best Foreign Film
2009 Toronto Film Critics Association Awards – Jay Scott Prize

AWARDS | Xavier Dolan (1989)
Young actor and director born in Montreal. He had his acting debut at the age of 4. Few years later Xavier played in popular series Misericode (Jean Beaudin), Omerta II (Pierre Houle) and L’or (Jean-Claude Lord). He also appeared in feature films J’en suis (Claude Fournier) Le marchand de cable (Nadine Fournel) i La forteresse suspendue (Roger Cantin) and a controversial Martyrs directed by Pascal Laugier. I killed my mother is his feature debut.