Class Trip

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Class Trip
Directed by	Claude Miller
Written by	Emmanuel Carrère
Starring	Clement Van Den Bergh
Release date(s)	16 May 1998 (premiere at Cannes) 23 September 1998 (France) 22 January 1999 (UK)
Running time	96 min.
Country	France
Language	French
IMDb profile

Class Trip is a 1998 French film. Its original French title is La Classe de neige, meaning "the class of the snow". It tells the story of a young boy on a school skiing trip who suffers anxiety attacks that bring on disturbing nightmares.

Nicolas is 10 years old and is dreading the school ski trip . His overprotective father decides to take Nicolas by himself instead of going with the group . Nicolas was worried that he wouldn't fit in with the other boys and his worries get worse when he forgets his case in his father's car . He is taken under the wings of the class ' leader ' Hodkann , the mysterious boy who all others look up to . On of Nicolas main fears is wetting his bed and the situation gets worse when he gets a bed just above Hodkann . At night Nicolas tries to stay awake but falls asleep , waking up to find he has had a wet dream but believes he has wet his pants . That night he leaves his bed and goes outside into the freezing cold and curls up inside the car of his ski instructor , Patrick . Before he drifts to sleep he sees a van driving away . He is found in the morning by his teacher and is taken in to a study with a fever . Later that day he goes to a cafe while the other boys are skiing . In the cafe he hears that a young boy , René , is missing . That night while sleeping he has a nightmare . He dreams that he is at a theme park with Patrick and that he goes on a giant caterpillar while his little brother is looked after by another seemingly friendly man . Once he is on the caterpillar he sees his brother being walked away by the stranger . Later he is found outside the park after having one of h is organs taken . The dream because he , 2 years back , had had the same experiance except for the fact that his father didn't allow him to go on the ride . At the end of the story nicolas finds that his father was in an accident and even later that his father was a "monster" and abused children.

Awards
Preceded by Western	Jury Prize, Cannes 1998	Succeeded by The Letter