A visit to the Kurdish autonomous region of Iraq. Director Kurdwin Ayub accompanies Omar, her father, to the place where the family escaped a long time ago. (…) While the father has plans to buy an apartment, he is in a dreamy patriotic mood and is occupied with adapting this Kurdistan ideally again, Kurdwin Ayub stays determined: with ironic breaks, deliberately naive settlements and a joyful physicality she creates a contradiction to the Iraqi reality. (…) The almost anarchic pleasure of PARADISE! PARADISE! forces the audience to have a accurate look and is responsible for the richness and complexity of this film. The beauty of PARADISE! PARADISE! is how playfully and cleverly topics such as gender questions, family affairs, foreignness meet. Exile as cinematic topic has perhaps not yet been treated like this.

Excerpts of Jury motivation 'Carte Blanche' - Prize of the State of NRW / 40th Duisburger Filmwoche