"Paradise: Love flits nimbly between humour and sadness, and treats potentially ponderous themes such as sex, race and the rancid legacy of colonialism with a welcome light touch." - The Telegraph

Teresa, a 50-year-old Austrian woman, is fed up with her lot. She's a single mother caring for a sullen teenager, and she's ready for a change. She heads off to Kenya for some R&R, and almost immediately encounters the country's trade in poor black men prepared to do anything for rich white women if the price is right.

Screening at MIFF last year, the first film in Ulrich Seidl's trilogy focusing on three related women returns with its two companion films: Paradise: Faith and Paradise: Hope. In this confronting instalment, he examines the gulf between love and exploitation. Blackly funny, tragic and sexually frank, it is ultimately a sympathetic observation of how people use each other.

D Ulrich Seidl P Ulrich Seidl, Christine Ruppert, Philippe Ruppert S Ulrich Seidl, Veronika Franz Dist Curious Film L German, English w/English subtitles TD DCP/2012