Dark Paradise

Local title
Tume paradiis
Title in Russian
Tемный рай
Original title
Tume paradiis
Director
Triin Ruumet
Country
Estonia
Year
2023
Programme
Baltic Film Competition
Genre
drama
Subject
intergenerational conflict, familial relationships, addictions, youth

God loves those who suffer. Didn’t Dostoyevsky say that?

Daring, crazy, stylish, reawakening psychothriller without any boundaries the extremes of wandering young adults. At a farewell dinner, Karmen shouts an eternal goodbye to father Martin and organises a kinky baptism ceremony to weirdly shy half-brother Viktor. Her status as Daddy’s Little Princess will soon be revoked. Karmen adopts a new lifestyle of bodybuilding, modelling, and masochistic sex. Drugged up and drunk, the cynical feminist rebel looks for true intimacy in sex sects, freaky rituals, and nasty workshops, while lonely manipulator Viktor heals the marks on his face and reappears in her tumultuous life with a brutal vengeance.

You will hardly recall any similarly merciless, uncomfortable, shocking, and black-humoured Estonian film that is so divisive you either love or hate it.

Triin Ruumet unmasks her hidden strengths not to please everyone after her debut, “The Days That Confused”, premiered in Karlovy Vary.

Edvinas Pukšta

Director
Triin Ruumet
Screenwriter
Triin Ruumet, Andris Feldmanis, Livia Ulman (1)
Cast
Rea Lest, Jörgen Liik, Reimo Sagor, Juhan Ulfsak, Liisa Saaremäel
Producer
Elina Litvinova
DoP
Erik Põllumaa
Editor
Jaak Ollino Jr.
Runtime
Language
Estonian
Subtitles
English

Award for Best Baltic Film, grant of 5000€ from Piletilevi

Screenings

9th Hall Apollo Kino Coca-Cola Plaza
Screening080902 / Tume paradiis
SubtitlesEnglish
Q&A guestsTriin Ruumet (Director, Screenwriter), Erik Põllumaa (Director of photography), Elina Litvinova (Producer), Rea Lest (Cast), Jörgen Liik (Cast)
Q&A duration
Screening duration
Saal Kino Sõprus
Screening143103 / Tume paradiis
SubtitlesEnglish
Screening duration
9th Hall Apollo Kino Coca-Cola Plaza
Screening160904 / Tume paradiis
SubtitlesEnglish
Screening duration
Trailer
Q&A with the filmmaker