THE FAM

THE FAM

La Mif. Switzerland 2021. Director: Fred Baillif. Screenplay: Fred Baillif. 110 Min. Fiction. Language: French. Subtitles: English. OV w/Eng. sub. Suitable from age 12. Recommended from age 15.

A resi­den­ti­al care home in Geneva is a fami­ly repla­ce­ment for the girls living the­re – but also the set­ting of explo­si­ve con­flicts. The film tells its protagonist’s sto­ries epi­so­dical­ly. Being so clo­se to the ado­le­s­cents you can­not shake of the impres­si­on of wat­ching a docu­men­ta­ry. But it is fic­tion: THE FAM was deve­lo­ped over two years in clo­se col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with the ensem­ble, rein­for­cing the authen­tic impact of this harsh but also empa­the­tic film. In dif­fe­ring per­spec­ti­ves THE FAM depicts the young women’s situa­ti­on and reflects the weak­ne­s­ses of society’s fra­gi­le social and poli­ti­cal struc­tures, which are sup­po­sed to catch the­se kids. The film strikes at the heart.

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2021 LA MIF I 2019 LA PREUVE SCIENTIFIQUE DE L’EXISTENCE DE DIEUL | 2015 TAPIS ROUGE

Biografie

Swiss Director Fred Baillif moved to New Yoork after gra­dua­ting in Social Studies. There he got his first expe­ri­en­ces in film pro­duc­tion. On many award-win­ning docu­men­ta­ries fol­lo­wed his first fea­ture film TAPIS ROUGE, which was award­ed with the Best Feature Film Award at the Geneva International Film Festival.