The Paradise We Are Looking For

The Paradise We Are Looking For (2019)

San Diego has been called many things – including a paradise. It’s also a refugee city, a cluster of neighborhoods, a militarized zone, a border town. And Asian American. This collection of four short documentaries, commissioned on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the San Diego Asian Film Festival, maps many such San Diego’s – across ethnicity, geography and history. At the same time, they hold on to some notion of paradise, however illusory: a haven from war, the dreams of an immigrant, precious teenage reminiscences, solace in the afterlife, and spaces for creative expression.

Date of release
2019-11-07
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Joseph Mangat, Norbert Shieh, Quyên Nguyen-Le, R.J. Lozada

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