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Rimini

The death of his mother brings Richie Bravo back from his adopted home in Italy to his teenage bedroom in Lower Austria, where Charlton Heston is still flexing his biceps and Winnetou is still alive.

1h 54min

Release Date: 22.05.2023

Sparta

“Sparta”, the latest film by one of the world’s most genius directors, Ulrich Seidl, is the second part of his brilliant cinematographic triptych about being, love, abysses and especially how our past is always part of our present. “Sparta” is a follow-up to Seidl’s previous film “Rimini” which was screened in this year’s Berlinale competition programme and was highly praised at the Palić Film Festival. Ewald (the always brilliant Austrian enfant terrible Georg Friedrich) moves from Austria to Romania to do a fresh and urgent restart in his life.

1h 41min

Release Date: 27.03.2023

In the Basement

Im Keller

A documentary that reveals what its subjects do in their respective basements.

1h 21min

Release Date: 09.02.2015

Paradise: Hope

Paradies: Hoffnung

PARADISE: HOPE is the third, and final chapter in Ulrich Seidl's trilogy about three women in one family who take separate vacations: one as a sex tourist (Paradise: Love), another as a Catholic missionary (Paradise: Faith) and the third at a diet camp for teenagers (Paradise: Hope.) Three films, three women, three stories of longing to find happiness in the modern world. PARADISE: HOPE premiered at the Berlinale in 2013 Her mother in Kenya, 13-year-old Melanie spends her summer vacation in a strict diet camp set in the Austrian countryside.

1h 40min

Release Date: 16.08.2013

Paradise: Faith

Paradies: Glaube

PARADISE: FAITH is the second chapter in Ulrich Seidl's trilogy about three women in one family who take separate vacations: one as a sex tourist (Paradise: Love), another as a Catholic missionary (Paradise: Faith) and the third at a diet camp for teenagers (Paradise: Hope.) Three films, three women, three stories of longing. In PARADISE: FAITH Ulrich Seidl takes a look at what it means to carry the cross in Austria.

1h 55min

Release Date: 12.07.2013

Paradise: Love

Paradies: Liebe

PARADISE: LOVE tells of older women and young men, of Europe and Africa, and of the exploited, who end up exploiting others. Ulrich Seidl’s film is the first in his PARADISE-trilogy about three women, three vacations and three stories of the longing to find happiness in the modern world. PARADISE: LOVE - the first part of Ulrich Seidl´s PARADISE trilogy - premiered in 2012 at the Cannes Film Festival with great success. On Kenya’s beaches they are known as "sugar mamas": European women who seek out African boys selling love to earn a living.

2h 0min

Release Date: 14.06.2013