Thien An Pham’s ‘Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell’ Official US Trailer

“The existence of faith is ambiguous.” Kino Lorber has revealed the official US trailer for an indie film from Vietnam titled Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell, which won the Camera d’Or award at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival for Best First Film. Marking the feature directorial debut of Vietnamese filmmaker Thien An Pham, this premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar at Cannes & played at many prestigious festivals throughout the year. It already opened in Vietnam in August. A man returns to his hometown, where he’s haunted by past memories and desires. The film is three hours long and heralded by critics as a new voice in the “slow cinema” genre. “This enthralling debut from Vietnamese filmmaker Thien An Pham is a reverie on faith, loss, and nature expressed with uncommon invention and depth.” As Thien battles with the existential question of what is worth living for, the film interrogates the persistence and complexity of faith, not only in the spiritual but in the delicate beauty of earthly existence. Starring Le Phong Vu, Nguyen Thinh, Vu Ngoc Manh, Nguyen Thi Truc Quynh, and Dylan Besseau. It’s really for cinephiles into slow cinema. // Continue Reading ›