La Mif (The Fam), a coming-of-age drama from Swiss director Fred Bailif, has won the top prize for best film in the Generation 14Plus sidebar of the 2021 Berlin International Film Festival.
Bailif'sfictional look inside a residential care facility housing teenage girls "pulls you in, never lets you go, and hits straight to the heart," according to the Generation jury.
The jury gave a special mention in the 14Plus category to Dash Shaw's psychedelic animated feature Cryptozoo, which premiered in Sundance.
The jury called the movie, an action thriller about the fight to save a utopian sanctuary for mythological creatures, "a mind-blowing, disturbing and visionary trip." In the Generation KPlus section, featuring films targeting younger.
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