Fred Baillif blends fiction and documentary in A Job Well Done

In A Job Well Done (Un travail exemplaire), Swiss director Fred Baillif takes the viewer onto a double-decker bus in Geneva, where social workers welcome migrants seeking help, shelter or just an ear. The feature, which blends fiction and documentary, shows how the desire to help refugees runs into an increasingly Kafkaesque bureaucracy. Baillif, a former national basketball player and prison educator, draws on his social work experience to expose the moral ambiguities on the ground. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film opens the main competition at the Tallinn festival.