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 de- mons that haunt The Fam. But lust for life strengthens all bonds. Just like a family. A social drama, mirroring our ill-mannered morals.
The Fam
La Mif
62nd TIFF: Greek Premiere
Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
| Available at the Agora Market. |
- Direction: Fred Baillif
- Script: Fred Baillif
- Cinematography: Joseph Areddy
- Editing: Fred Baillif
- Sound: Samuel Levy, Maxence Ciekawy
- Actors: Claudia Grob, Anaïs Uldry, Kassia Da Costa, Amélie Tonsi, Amandine Golay, Joyce Ndayisenga, Charlie Areddy, Sara Tulu
- Production: Freshprod
- Producers: Agnès Boutruche, Véronique Vergari, Fred Baillif
- Co-production: RTS
- Costumes: Lucy Mann
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: Switzerland
- Production Year: 2021
- Duration: 112'
- Contact: Latido Films
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 DJing 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.
Filmography
2003 Sideman (doc)
2006 Geisendorf (doc)
2008 The Subject and The How (doc)
2009 All By Myself (TV doc)
2013 As Long as It Rains in America (doc)
2015 Tapis rouge
2017 Un canapé pour deux (TV doc)
2017 Né pour mourir (short)
2019 Edelweiss Revolution
2021 The Fam
