In the basement
By Ulrich Seidl
2014 | 81 min | Documentary
A documentary that reveals what its subjects do in their respective basements.
Ulrich Seidl
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Safari
By Ulrich Seidl
2016 | 88 min | Documentary
Ulrich Seidl takes a documentary look at big game hunting in Africa and addresses what oftentimes is the illegal killing of endangered species.
Paradise : Love
By Ulrich Seidl
2012 | 120 min | Drama
On 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 fifty-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 disappointment to the next and finally she must recognize: On the beaches of Kenya, love is a business.
Paradise : Faith
By Ulrich Seidl
2012 | 109 min | Drama
Anna Maria, a single woman in her 50s, 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 Vienna, she goes from door to door, carrying a foot-high statue of the Virgin Mary. When her husband, an Egyptian Muslim confined to a wheelchair, comes home after years of absence, her life is turned upside down.
Paradise : Hope
By Ulrich Seidl
2012 | 91 min | Drama
The final installment in Ulrich Seidl's Paradise trilogy, 'Paradise: Hope' tells the story of overweight thirteen-year-old Melanie and her first love. While her mother travels to Kenya ('Paradise: Love') and her aunt does missionary work ('Paradise: Faith'), Melanie spends her summer vacation at a strict diet camp for overweight adolescents. Between physical education and nutrition counseling, pillow fights and her first cigarette, Melanie falls in love with the camp director, a doctor forty years ...