The Paradise Suite is a 2015 Dutch drama film written and directed by Joost van Ginkel. It was selected as the Dutch entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. It was screened in the Discovery section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. It also won three Golden Calves for Best Film, Best Actor (Sawadogo), and Best Screenplay.
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Plot
The film follows a number of foreigners who find themselves in Amsterdam: a man from Burkina Faso named Yaya who loses his job and gets in financial trouble, three girls from Bulgaria who are told they will be models for a photoshoot but end up in prostitution, a musical conductor from Sweden named Stig whose son Lukas goes missing, a war criminal from Serbia named Ivica who now runs a brothel in the red light district, and a woman from Bosnia named Seka who recognises Ivica from her past. The foreigners all cross paths in different ways and find themselves having to rely on their new friendships.
Cast
Isaka Sawadogo as Yaya
Anjela Nedyalkova as Jenya
Magnus Krepper as Stig
Jasna Đuričić as Seka
Erik Adelöw as Lukas
Dragan Bakema as Milijan
Raymond Thiry as Maarten
Sigrid ten Napel as Antoinette
Eva Röse as Julia Lindh Åberg
Victoria Koblenko as Ana
Jeroen Spitzenberger as Sven
Reinout Bussemaker as Jack
Babetida Sadjo as Angele
Emmanuel Ohene Boafo as Mohammed