Brighter Days Ahead

Brighter Days Ahead is a 2025 American musical science fiction short film written and directed by Christian Breslauer and Ariana Grande, the latter in her directorial debut. It is an accompanying piece to Grande's seventh studio album Eternal Sunshine (2024) and its 2025 reissue, which shares the same subtitle as the film. Grande first teased a short film in a Vanity Fair interview while promoting Wicked (2024). She continued to tease the album's deluxe edition in various interviews and public appearances before announcing it on March 10, 2025. She teased the short film two days prior before announcing it via an Instagram post on March 12. In the teaser trailer posted alongside the announcement, Grande also revealed that she would be reprising her role as Peaches, a character she introduced in the music video for "We Can't Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)", with the short film being a sequel to that work. Produced by London Alley and the Lucky Bastards, Brighter Days Ahead was released on YouTube on March 28, 2025, in conjunction with the deluxe reissue of Eternal Sunshine. At the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards, the short film won Video of the Year, Best Pop Video and Best Long Form Video.