Every day Paul crosses the canal, that seperates the city centre from the industrial area, in which his lover Christiaan lives and waits for him impatiently. A dear routine for both - until one day Paul meets the mysterious Claire, who starts seducing him into her very own universe - the 'Hotel Paradijs'. She manages to make Paul the audience of her own play: a play with swapped roles, which Paul seems to be ever less capable of...

Director's note
"Hotel Paradijs" is about desire. It's about its magic and its darkness, about the irrational.
I envision a shooting on original locations in Amsterdam, where I have just spent a year studying in the Binger Filmlab. The emphasis will not be on too much of a technical effort, instead I'm always looking for the right visual feeling of a life on the border of day and night, desire, happiness and pain.