Paradies: Liebe
About the event
Ulrich Seidl delves into sex tourism on the coast of Kenya, where Austrian Teresa is spending a holiday on Hotel Flamingo’s ‘comfort safari’. A hotly debated portrayal of consumer society: pitch black, but not without its own highly distinctive sense of humour. On the beaches of Kenya they're known as Sugar Mamas: European women who seek out African beach 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 as a sex tourist in search of love. She goes from one beach boy to the next, from one disappointment to the next. On the beaches of Kenya love is a business.
Paradise: Love tells, not without humor, of sex tourism, older women and young men, the market…
