Enjoy Your Stay

DCP / Color / 99’
English, Tagalog, French; with Turkish and English Subtitles
Switzerland / France / Philippines, 2026

Director: Dominik Locher
Screenplay: Dominik Locher, Honeylyn Joy Alipio
Cinematography: Jeanne Lapoirie
Editing: Diego Marx Dobles, Carmen Walker
Cast: Mercedes Cabral, Alexis Manenti, Anna Luna, Hasmine Killip
Producer: Flavia Zanon, Joëlle Bertossa
Production: Close Up Films
World Sales: Be For Films

Synopsis

Enjoy Your Stay explores the dark underbelly of the pristine Swiss Alps, delivering a tense psychological drama about cross-cultural labor exploitation, desperation, and moral compromise, while criticizing the capitalist system. The film follows Luz (Mercedes Cabral), a 35-year-old undocumented Filipino housekeeper working in the luxury winter chalets of Verbier, Switzerland. Luz and her colleagues spend their days meticulously cleaning for wealthy tourists while constantly dodging the authorities and living under the permanent threat of deportation. Luz’s fragile but stable routine is shattered when her ex-husband launches a highly publicized, televised custody battle for their daughter back in the Philippines. Facing an aggressive deadline to raise cash for legal defense and debts, Luz is cornered by her manipulative boss, Thibault (Alexis Manenti). To secure the cash bonuses she desperately needs, she compromises her own ethics and begins recruiting other vulnerable, low-wage Filipino workers into the same exploitative system, actively perpetuating the very cycle of human trafficking that traps her. Through the character of Thibault, the film critiques how “business men” mask human trafficking as “benevolence” or “providing opportunities.” Enjoy Your Stay clearly shows how women are systematically abused and exploited in several different ways by their families, employers and / or clients.

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