Director: Fred Baillif
Cast: Claudia Grob, Anaïs Uldry, Kassia Da Costa, Joyce Esther Ndayisenga and Charlie Areddy
Switzerland 2021 | Colour | 110 mins
Avaliable on: DCP
La Mif is a bristling, contemporary drama set in a teenage girls’ residential care home in Geneva.
As both tensions and intimacies are created, an incident triggers a chain of over-reactions resulting in a powerful and emotional examination of the impacts of abuse, coming of age, and the morals and ethics of social care.
Fred Baillif’s third fiction feature was developed over two years and drew on his own past experience as a street social worker. He worked with real residents and staff in a care home to play the fictional characters, with the ensemble cast composed of non-professional actors.
A festival favourite, La Mif had its world premiere at the 2021 Berlin Film Festival where it won the Generation 14Plus Grand Prix for best film.