Documentary Films - Competition 2013 / Beach Boy / United Kingdom 2013
Danish filmmaker Emil Langballe describes what appears to be a budding romance between the young Kenyan boy Juma and the 50-year-old British woman, in a real-life version of the feature film by Ulrich Seidl Paradise: Love, set in Kenya, whose sex tourism trade promises women a romantic idyll, but all they hear are compassionate lies.
Like the majority of young Kenyans, Juma dreams of a better life abroad. His girlfriend has left to work in Qatar, allowing the young man to fully thrust himself into his work as a "companion” to elderly European women who spend their vacations at local resort hotels. Danish filmmaker Emil Langballe records in detail what appears to be a budding love affair between Juma and a 50-year-old British woman. The documentary turns out to be a real-life version of Ulrich Seidl’s feature Paradise: Love (KVIFF 2012), investigating local female sex tourism based on a false sense of romance.
27 min / Color, HD CAM
International premiere
Director Emil Langballe
/ Screenplay Emil Langballe
/ Dir. of Photography Emil Langballe
/ Music Finn McNicholas
/ Editor John Murphy
/ Producer Emil Langballe
/ Production National Film and Television School
/ Contact Emil Langballe
Emil Langballe (b. 1982) is an independent Danish journalist and filmmaker. Based in London, he graduated from the National Film and Television School. Selected filmography: Grillfesten i Tingbjer (2008), The Gardener and His 21 Flowers (2010), Beach Boy (2013).
Emil Langballe
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Phone: +44 149 473 145 2
Fax: +44 149 467 404 2
E-mail: [email protected]
Emil Langballe
Film Director, Film Director
John Murphy
Film Editor
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