Hubert (Xavier Dolan) is 16 and actually loves his mother - it's just that he can't bear to be her son! It's not just because she wears tasteless sweaters, eats her sandwiches in an extremely unaesthetic way or puts on make-up while driving. She also constantly makes false promises, never really listens to him and generally rejects all blame. The fact that the young man has to go to boarding school at some point doesn't make things any better. In the slipstream of this passionate love-hate relationship, Hubert has his first boyfriend, tries his hand at being an artist for the first time and tries to bring order to the chaos of his life and emotions. In other words, he is growing up. Xavier Dolan wrote the screenplay for this sensitive, semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story, in which he deals with his relationship with his own mother, when he was just 17 years old, threw himself into the filming process without any previous experience of directing and also took on the lead role. With his debut film, Canada's directorial prodigy immediately made it into the prestigious selection of the “Quinzaine des réalisateurs” in Cannes. His subsequent films, “Mommy” and “Simply the End of the World”, screened in competition and both won the 'Grand Jury Prize'. “I Killed My Mother is probably the most intense, blunt and truly recent education sentimentale story in contemporary cinema. [...] This is the work of a highly intelligent narrator, very aware of his means, who does not hide his influences from Francois Truffaut to Won Kar-wai, but skillfully incorporates them into this utterly astonishing first film, developing a distinctly youthful cinematic language of his own. It is refreshing and touching at the same time, full of energy and melancholy. I Killed My Mother is a movie just as that transition feels: comforting for the audience of the same age, evoking bittersweet memories for us old farts.” (Marc Ottiker, on: zeit.de)