Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

182 min
FilmColumbia 2023
Thursday, October 26
12:00pm
Crandell Theatre
Play

Thien An Pham’s spellbinding feature, hailed by Variety as the most auspicious debut film at Cannes, won the festival’s coveted Camera d’Or for best first film. A young man from Saigon drives his sister-in-law’s body and his 5-year-old nephew back to their mountainside home village for a Christian burial. Along the way he confronts his past and invents his future. Played Toronto and New York festivals.

directed by
Thien An Pham
written by
Thien An Pham
with
Le Phong Vũ, Nguyễn Thị Trúc Quỳnh
language
Vietnamese (with English subtitles)
country
Vietnam
distributor
Kino Lorber