The Fam
Seven girls live under the same roof but haven’t chosen each other, just like a family. Emerging from difficult backgrounds, here in the safe house, the girls find a new community, in a way they’d never experienced before. They are sharing joy and pain, passionately rebel against the shortcomings of their surrounding – the young women’s temperaments are different, their lust for life large, their place in society too precarious for things to be all peace, love and harmony. Home director Lora is always there for them when they need her. Or is it the other way around? La Mif was created in close collaboration with the young actresses, who were involved in developing their characters. Each individual fate is a shard and together they form an iridescent kaleidoscope capable of upending hierarchies. The film sensitively reveals the imperfection of the youth protection system, as well as the fragility of social structures and tenderly questions, what it might actually mean to be part of a family.
Fred Baillif is a self-taught movie director and producer from Switzerland. He graduate from the Institute of Social Studies in Geneva in 2000. He first specialize in documentary since 2002, but in 2015 he directed his first fiction entitled "Tapis Rouge" (Red Carpet). Since then, he directed another fiction entitled "La Preuve cientifique de l'Existence de Dieu" (The Scientific Proof of God's Existence) which is in post-production. He has three other fictions in development such as "I wanted to be White like Jesus", "Les Mots de ma Mère" (My Mother's Words) and "La Montre de Chine" (The Chinese Watch). "The Chinese Watch" is a movie with an international stature, which makes him go a step further in his career. In 2010, he founded his own production society that he called Freshprod and in 2015 he founded an association that he called Studio99.
La vie en deux (2009, doc), Believers: Who's Back? (2011, doc), Tant qu'il pleut en Amérique (2013, doc) Tapis rouge (2014), La preuve scientifique de l'existence de Dieu (The Scientific Proof of the Existence of God, 2019)
