Paradise: Love
Paradies: Liebe · dir. Ulrich Seidl
Austria, France, Germany 2012, 120’
Screenings
10/25, 18:00 · Od Nowa – new hall
The title “paradise” is the area of coastal health resorts in Kenya, where middle-aged European women travel to look for the so-called “beach boys”, i.e. young African men, who satisfy their sexual fantasies, in return for money. This seems to be the perfect place for Teresa, a mother of a teenage daughter, to have a grand celebration of her 50th birthday. She has her daughter in a friend’s keeping and goes to a Kenyan health resort with the hope to find love and experience a sexual thrill of her life. The reality turns out to be far from the paradise ideal, though. Wandering from beach to beach in a desperate hope to find the true love and changing her dark-skinned lovers, one by one, Teresa faces the ever-growing disappointment. Consequently, she loses her sensitivity and becomes gradually disillusioned, which brings her to a bitter conclusion — the love on Kenyan beaches is not a dreamed paradise, but a paid transaction, which is just prostitution in disguise.
| Director: | Ulrich Seidl |
| Screenplay: | Ulrich Seidl, Veronika Franz |
| Music: | Gerrit Wunder |
| Cinematography: | Wolfgang Thaler, Ed Lachman |
| Editing: | Christof Schertenleib |
| Cast: | Margarete Tiesel, Peter Kazungu, Inge Maux, Dunja Sowinetz, Helen Brugat, Gabriel Mwarua, Carlos Mkutano |
| Awards: | MFF w Cannes / Cannes IFF – Nagroda FIPRESCI / FIPRESCI Award (2012) |
2013 Programme
- Downloadable programme
- Films from A to Z
- Opening gala
- ON AIR
- SHORTCUT
- FROM POLAND
- LOCALIZATIONS
- The Worlds of Ulrich Seidl – a retrospective
- Martin Šulík’s retrospective
- Forward!: Małgośka Szumowska
- Focus: Syria
- Phenomena: Bruce Lee
- Woman in Russian Cinema
- New Romanian Cinema
- Forum 2012/2013
- The Best of Sofia IFF
- The Best of Jameson CineFest
- 3 × Colombian Cinema
- Special screenings
- Open meetings with the guests of the festival
- Masterclasses
- Accompanying events