The Siege of Paradise

a film about tourism eating up what it's craving for, about the extinction of traditions and the people behind it, about social media madness - so about capitalism and its evil outburst of indifference towards the environment which allowed it to grow into this perverted…

shookone

(TFF) I can’t help but draw a connection to the question Gar O’Rourke posed in the Q&A (“What kind of tourist do you want to be?”) and the woman sitting in my row with her dogs out and resting on the seat in front of her during the screening. We’ve gotten so comfortable…

kyliehennagin

MIFF 2026 (#26) my next move is making a doco on the tourists who walk four-across down degraves street at the pace of a snail… :)

olivia 🌷

i was a bit worried at the beginning that they would make our blonde, american influencer the punch line of a joke, but what we actually got was an empathetic approach to influencing, the inherent loneliness of social media and the emptiness of our friendships when we…

soph 💞

not me though, right? i’m one of the good ones right??? an excellent and balanced doco that doesn’t purport to solve the complex ethical dilemma at its heart but forces the viewer into a kind of self awareness that i think would go a long way to more mindful and ethical…

riley

Much more poignant then scathing which was an unexpected and welcome snapshot into our self destructive tendencies.  Felt undone by the medium though. When the influencer decided to put down the camera and enjoy a moment of tranquility, it’s poignancy was completely undone…

Draffin

Way less fun than the trailers made it out to be – in fact a document of a dying way of life, the people baffled by their own slow decline via brutal cultural extraction and the bureaucratic processes powerless to stop it. By turns infuriating and profoundly sad, this made…

jordanprosser

Having been whacked by a stranger’s selfie stick in Cinque Terre myself, I loved this. Anytime I travel I’m hyper aware of the paradox faced by places dependent on tourism and the way social media and the internet writ large has flattened the travel experience so…

mikebradley12

MIFF 2026 at ACMI "The sun is going down for us" – a poignant, pertinent observation from the ailing wife of the lovable Bartolo – a winemaker who acts as the beating heart of the locals represented in Gar O’Rourke's charming yet chastening doco into the impacts of tourism…

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