A residential home for girls in Geneva. Girls doing their makeup, smoking, swearing and playing loud music. Conflicts, and talks to resolve them, are also part of the everyday life of the home’s residents and support workers. Gradually, the biographies and mutual relationships of Audrey, Novinha, Précieuse, Justine, Alison, Caroline and Tamra unfold. For most of the young actresses, this is their first acting experience and they share their teenage emotions without inhibition. The dialogues are partly improvised and partly written by the girls themselves, blurring the line between fiction and documentary. In recurring sequences such as elliptical time loops we dive deeper and deeper into the dramatic realities of the girls’ lives, while the home’s manager, Lora, is fighting her own battle against the shortcomings of the child protection system. (mch)
Credits
Director: Fred Baillif
Screenplay: Fred Baillif
Cinematography: Joseph Areddy
Editor: Fred Baillif
Sound: David Puntener, Bruce Wuilloud, Alan Mantilleri, Samuel Levy
Producers: Véronique Vergari, Agnès Boutruche
With: Claudia Grob, Anaïs Uldry, Kassia Da costa, Joyce Esther Ndayisenga, Charlie Areddy, Sara Tulu, Isabelle De Abreu Cannavo, Amélie Tonsi, Amandine Golay, Sara Leon, Arsène Landenberg, Merlin Landenberg
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