'' Paradise '' ( ) is the collective name of three films directed by Ulrich Seidl : '' Paradise : Love '' ( 2012 ) , '' Paradise : Faith '' ( 2012 ) and '' Paradise : Hope '' ( 2013 ) . They focus on three women from one family ; one of them travels to Kenya as a sex tourist , one has to spend time at a weight loss camp , and one tries to propagate Catholicism . The project is an Austrian majority production with co-producers in Germany and France . It was conceived as one feature film , but after a long gestation became three entries forming a trilogy . The first installment , '' Paradise : Love '' , competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival . Seidl originally planned to premiere all three films at the same event , but after the Cannes selection decided to roll out parts two and three , '' Paradise : Faith '' and '' Paradise : Hope '' , at other major film festivals . The individual films are named after the three theological virtues , and focus on how the protagonists conceive their view of paradise
2012 Cannes Film Festival
2012 Cannes Film Festival
Paradise trilogy