Children's Day

Children's Day (2025)

Xuan (8) is struggling to find the perfect outfit for her school’s upcoming Children’s Day celebration. Her sisters are mean, her father authoritarian, her mother busy with the new baby. Xuan tentatively approaches a classmate and makes a new friend.

Date of release
2025-02-15
Runtime
20m
Genres
Drama
Director
Giselle Lin

Casting

Interesting facts

Children's Day is a 2025 Singaporean coming-of-age, short film co-written and directed by Giselle Lin. The film set in Singapore, follows a shy and imaginative eight-year-old struggles to find the perfect outfit for her school's upcoming Children's Day celebration while adjusting to a turbulent home life and an unlikely new friendship at school.

Production

In the words of the director Giselle Lin:

The story of the film is inspired by one Children’s Day from when I was eight years old. My best friend (then and now) asked that we match outfits and lipgloss, and I agreed, despite having neither lipgloss nor a new outfit. Children’s Day is an ever-ebbing and flowing love letter to eight-year-old Giselle, and I hope everyone who watches the final film finds a bit of their eight-year-old self in it as well.

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