Beach Boy
7.2
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 middle-aged British woman. The documentary turns out to be a real-life version of Ulrich Seidl’s feature Paradise: Love, investigating local female sex tourism based on a false sense of romance.
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Cast
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Emil Langballe Director · Finn McNicholas Composer
First release March 22, 2013 · Languages English, Swahili
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National Film and Television School (NFTS)
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Original language
English
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English · Swahili
Release dates
United Kingdom · March 22, 2013
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No release date listed for United States.
Czechia
July 1, 2013 · Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
France
October 6, 2013 · Dinard Festival of British Cinema
Greece
March 20, 2014 · Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
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