Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

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.