Paradies: Liebe (2012)

 

Teresa, a fifty-year-old Austrian mother, travels to the paradise of the beaches of Kenya, seeking out love from African boys. But she must confront the hard truth that on the beaches of Kenya, love is a business.

Once again Ulrich Seidl confronts his audience with a tough watch exposing in painfully realistic detail the downsides of our world;  Margarete Tiesel shocks and surprises with a remarkably courageous performance.

 

Paradies: Hoffnung (2013)

A chubby, virginal teen at a weight-loss camp develops a crush on her doctor and becomes determined to seduce him.

Grim, bleak and unpitying look at human aspirations and desires in a heartless world; no paradise and not much hope to be found.