Quyen Nguyen Le

Hoài

Quyen Nguyen Le

Sumiko Braun, Ngoc Anh Ha

Centering on the story of a queer Vietnamese American woman, this short film explores the collapsing and intersecting realities of heartbreak: from romantic partnerships, families, and nation states.

Nước

Quyen Nguyen Le

About the relationship between a queer Vietnamese-American teen and their Vietnamese refugee mother.

The Paradise We Are Looking For

Norbert Shieh, Joseph Mangat

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.

The Labyrinth

Kaushik Sampath, Camila Ohara Tanabe

James Franco, Джошуа Майкл Пе

A collection of original shorts exploring the unknown, the unexplained, and the unimaginable.