Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

Winner
Golden Camera
Cannes Film Festival
Nominee
Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Prize
San Sebastián International Film Festival
Transfixing...makes you feel as if you've been quietly transported to another world.
-- Justin Chang, NPR

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Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

Winner of the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the prestigious André Bazin Prize from Cahiers du Cinema, both celebrating outstanding feature debuts, this enthralling work from Vietnamese filmmaker Pham Thien An is a reverie on faith, loss, and nature expressed with uncommon invention and depth. The sudden death of his sister-in-law brings unexpected responsibilities to Thien (Le Phong Vu), who is tasked with bringing his five-year-old nephew Dao to their countryside hometown. On the road, Thien is drawn into a search for his long-missing older brother, haunted and spurred forward by a series of sublime dreams that reignite suppressed memories, forbidden desires, and specters of his own youth. What began as a journey home becomes a pilgrimage marked by visual splendor and mystical overtones, a quest for understanding and certainty in a Vietnam that seems unable to provide any clear answers. As Thien battles with the existential question of what is worth living for, Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell interrogates the persistence and complexity of faith, not only in the spiritual but in the delicate beauty of earthly existence.

"Astonishing...this is faith as cinematic form: in every shot, Pham compels us to dwell in the space just beyond what we see, or what we believe.” – Genevieve Yue, Film Comment
Not Rated
Genre
Drama
Runtime
180
Language
Vietnamese, English
Director
Pham Thien An
Writer(s)
Pham Thien An
Cast
Le Phong Vu, Nguyen Thi Truc Quynh, Vu Ngoc Manh
Awards:
Winner, Golden Camera, Cannes Film Festival
Nominee, Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Prize, San Sebastián International Film Festival

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