Chasing Sunshine

About this movie

Nna, 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.

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