Seven minutes that'll wreck your whole day — in the best way possible.
As a Chinese boy transitions from childhood to adolescence, he finds himself lost in a world that tells him he should hate where he comes from with being confronted by racial hatred. He stumbles across some strange footage on TV. SUNNY digs into the the importance of Chinese history, the need for young people to see themselves, and the anger that comes when loneliness engulfs you.
Direction
Yang and Bainbridge pack a feature's worth of ache into seven minutes.
Acting
Josserand's face does heavy lifting no dialogue could touch.
Editing
The footage cut-ins feel like actual psychic damage.
Director
Sky Yang
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sky Yang made this partly in response to growing up British-Chinese without seeing his own experience reflected anywhere in media.
The 'strange footage' isn't fictional — Yang sourced actual archival broadcast material to ground Sun's trauma in real history.
GB
US
