Kenya’s Sex Tourism Film Aired at Toronto International Film Festival

The contentitous Kenyan film by a similarly controversial producer Ulrich Seidl which highlights sex tourism at the Coast, Paradise: Love, premiered at the onset of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) last weekend.

Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is extensively regarded as one of the world’s top film festivals. They brag of being the launching pad for the best of international, Hollywood and Canadian cinema, and is recognized as the most important film festival after Cannes.

The film is part of what will be a three-part prologue, digs into the life of an Austrian woman who goes on vacation to the Kenyan coast in search of holiday and while at it meets a beach boy. The producer however does not escape criticism as a section of TIFF observers saying “Seidl’s repeated scenes of young Kenyan men trying to play up to middle-aged German women’s grotesque racist fantasies (which) makes an unpleasant point ad nauseam.”

Despite all the fuss surrounding the film, it has in the past done well bagging an award at the Cannes Film Festival earlier on in the year.

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