Class Trip

Class Trip (La Classe de neige, 1998) is a French psychological thriller you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Claude Miller and adapted from Emmanuel Carrère's novel. The film took the Jury Prize at Cannes.

Nicolas (Clément Van Den Bergh) is a ten-year-old boy raised on his father's stories — abductors who snatch children and hand them over to surgeons for parts. The stories were meant to warn him. On a school ski trip to the mountains, his nightmares start bleeding into what's actually happening around him. Something is genuinely wrong nearby. The adults are harder to read than they should be.

Miller builds the entire film from inside Nicolas's head — the cold dormitory, the unfamiliar boys, the mountain dark. It works as a thriller precisely because it never steps outside the child's limited, frightened point of view. Stream Class Trip (1998) online on iFILM.