DramaDirected by:Ulrich SeidlWith:Melanie Lenz, Joseph Lorenz, Michael ThomasThe third film in Ulrich Seidl's PARADISE trilogy tells the story of Melanie, an overweight 13-year-old, and her first love. While her mother, Teresa, travels to Kenya ("PARADISE: Love"), and her aunt ("PARADISE: Faith") does missionary work for Jesus Christ, the teenager spends her summer... Read more...
DramaDirected by:Ulrich SeidlWith:Maria HofstätterIn "PARADISE: Faith" Ulrich Seidl explores what it means to carry the cross. For Anna Maria, a single woman in her 50s, paradise lies with Jesus. She devotes her summer vacation to doing missionary work, so that Austria may be brought back to the path of virtue. On her daily pilgrimage through... Read more...
DocumentaryDirected by:Ulrich SeidlWith:Maria Hofstätter, Margarete Tiesel, Inge MauxOn the beaches of Kenya they're known as "Sugar Mamas:" European women who seek out African boys selling love to earn a living. Teresa, a 50-year-old Austrian and mother of a daughter entering puberty, travels to this vacation paradise. She goes from one Beach Boy to the next, from one... Read more...
DramaDirected by:Ulrich SeidlWith:Ekaterina Rak, Paul Hofmann, Michael ThomasIt's cold and gray. Wintertime. People are freezing. That's how it is here in Austria. That's how it is there in the Ukraine. Two different worlds that are increasingly coming to resemble each other. The East looks like the West, the West like the East. In this atmosphere two stories take place... Read more...