I Killed My Mother

Visky, in attendance, tells the story of Bernadett. Abandoned by her mother at birth, the girl grows up in state institutions which were a living hell in Ceausescu’s Romania. When Bernadett and a boy who calls himself Clip are forced to wear steel clips on their tongues for speaking disrespectfully, they become firm friends. Together they survive abandonment and cruelty by conjuring a spiritual landscape, a land called “Never” where the fantasy language Clippish is spoken. Bernadett dreams of being adopted so she can leave the orphanage forever. Meanwhile Clip is planning a strategy for their escape.

I Killed My Mother
by András Visky