Pretpark Nederland / Zuoz

PRETPARK NEDERLAND, 2006, Netherlands, 90 min. In his trademark tongue-in-cheek style, director Michiel van Erp explores the daily life of people in the Netherlands. Focusing on the mechanics of the Dutch tourism industry, the film follows the organizers and key figures behind events and destinations. This includes everyone from the director of the Efteling theme park creating a new ride to a manager of an outlet store preparing for a Christmas sale.

ZUOZ, 2007, Principality of Liechtenstein, 71 min. Dir. Daniella Marxer. A trip to a boarding school in the snowy Swiss mountains, where youngsters coming from the most fortunate and influential families in the world live lives apart. Marxer shows us the day-to-day life at school, ruled by old and traditional values that hide everlasting power struggles in a golden microcosm. Being original is not tolerated and doesn’t interest the faculty – for them, what counts is the community and that the system works well.