PARADISE: LOVE (120')

On the beaches of Kenya they’re known as “Sugar Mama”: European women who seek out African boys selling love to earn a living. Teresa, a 50-year-old Austrain and mother of a daughter entering puberty, travels to this vacation paradise. She goes from one beach. She goes from one Beach Boy to the next, from one disappointment to the next and finally she must recognize: On the beaches of Kenya love is a business. Not without humour, Paradise: Love tells us about sex tourism, older women and young men, the market value of sexuality, the power of skin color, Europe and Africa, and the exploited, who have no choice but to exploit others. Ulrich Seidl’s film is the opener in the Paradise Triology about three women in one family who take separate vacations. Three films, three women, three stories of the longing to find hapiness today.