Sweat
Edward Nguyen
2025
On the eve of leaving rural Vietnam, farm worker Hung prepares to illegally cross the border in search of refuge abroad. Defined by routine and labour, his final day with Hoang, a fellow worker, reshapes his understanding of desire, intimacy and selfhood.
Edward Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American writer-director based in New York and Austin. His work explores cross-cultural queerness, displacement and urban isolation, inspired by queer and slow cinema. A Yale University graduate, he is a semifinalist of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s How We Heal Short Films Lab.
Sweat (2025)
