Modersmålsmord

Modersmålsmord (2022)

N/A 7 min Movie
DocumentaryHistory

Ahmemulić prepares tongue in her mother’s way – skinned, seasoned, boiled, sliced. She can then in turn serve her son her mother’s tongue. The skinned lamb tongue here becomes a brutal metaphor for a doubly impossible language – the acquired Swedish and a Serbo-Croatian that has begun to dissolve.

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Cast

Meira Ahmemulić Meira Ahmemulić herself

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