Title: La Mif
Directed by: Fred Baillif
Screenplay: Fred Baillif
Photography: Joseph Areddy
Editor: Fred Baillif
Sound: Samuel Levy
Cast: Claudia Grob Amélie Tonsi Anaïs Uldry Amandine Golay Kassia Da Costa Joyce Ndayisenga Charlie Areddy Sara Tulu
Production: Freshprod – RTS
Distribution: LATIDO FILM
Country: France
Year: 2021
Runtime: 110’
Awards: Best Film Generation Berlinale 2021
A group of teenage girls have been placed in a residential care home with social workers. This forced “family” experience creates unexpected tensions and intimacies. An incident triggers a chain of over-reactions. The fall-out reveals the
weaknesses of the retrograde juvenile system, as well as the demons that haunt ‘La Mif’. A social drama, mirroring our ill-mannered morals.
Fred Baillif
Growing up in Switzerland, he had a seven-year career as a professional basketball player before studying social work and working in a youth detention centre. He then moved to New York and was a PA on the documentary series The It Factor during the day while DJ’ing at night. After returning to Switzerland, he made his first documentary, Sideman. Working as a street social worker, he found the protagonists for his next documentary, Geisendorf, which won several awards. In 2010, he made his first fiction feature film with Tapis rouge. Baillif has developed his own technique for directing non-professional actors.