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  • Chasing Sunshine (2025)
  • Short | 13 min | Short, Drama
Chasing Sunshine (2025)
Short | 13 min | Short, Drama
Anna, a young German immigrant in the U.S., is quietly unraveling. After losing her job, the clock begins ticking on her visa, and the pressure to find stability grows heavier by the day. Her creative spark fades beneath the weight of ...See moreAnna, a young German immigrant in the U.S., is quietly unraveling. After losing her job, the clock begins ticking on her visa, and the pressure to find stability grows heavier by the day. Her creative spark fades beneath the weight of endless applications and growing uncertainty. Meanwhile, her Vietnamese neighbor, Mrs. Hong - joyful, loud, and obsessed with bánh giò (a Vietnamese pyramid rice cake) - keeps interrupting Anna's spiral with food and unsolicited kindness. But after a tense confrontation, something unexplainable happens - Anna wakes up in Mrs. Hong's body... twenty years in the past. Suddenly, she's living the older woman's former life in a cold, monotonous vegetable factory. Day after day, she endures the routines, the sharp orders, the silence, the ache. What once seemed like harmless eccentricity reveals itself as a quiet history of sacrifice, loneliness, and strength. Chasing Sunshine is a tender, genre-blending short about connection across generations, the quiet resilience of immigrant women, and the beauty of rediscovering joy in unexpected places. Written by Nghi Pham See less
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Director
Nghi Pham
Writers
Nguyen Ho (screenplay) | Braydan Kirkland (screenplay) | Nghi Pham (story by)
Producers
Nghi Pham (producer) | Zilyu Ye (producer)
Composers
Anh Bui (music supervisor) | Jiwon Kim (music composed by) | Jiwon Kim (music composed by)
Cinematographer
Lucie Williamson
Editor
Jason Qu
Production Design
Mia Broemmelsick (Production Designer: Factory Unit) | Aaliyah Hermansyah (Production Designer: Main Unit)
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Updated Sep 18, 2025
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