The Paradise We Are Looking For

San Diego has been called many things including a paradise Its 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 Diegos 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