Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

Director: Phạm Thiên Ân

2023 / 178min / DCP

Winner of the prestigious Caméra d’Or for best first feature at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Pham’s accomplished debut centers on a thirtysomething Vietnamese man (Lê Phong Vũ) who returns from Saigon to his rural hometown in the wake of a car accident that’s left his five-year-old nephew an orphan, revisiting ghosts of his past while struggling with his own deep-seated agnosticism in a community abounding in religious faith. A vibrant, meditative work of lyrical plein-air filmmaking that manages to be at once marvelously simple and enormously complex.

Distributor: Kino Lorber

Part of Currents of Southeast Asian Cinema