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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 reluctantly 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.
JK Film and Potocol present ; in coproduction with Deuxième Ligne Films, Zorba the Imaginary Friend, Fasten Films ; written and directed by Phạm Thiên Ân ; producers, Trần Văn Thi, Jeremy Chua.
Le Phong Vu, Nguyen Thi Truc Quynh, Nguyen Thinh, Vu Ngoc Manh.
Originally produced by Kino Lorber in 2023.
In Vietnamese with optional English subtitles.