Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

A tragic accident, the search for a missing brother. But also so much more – here is a cinematic firework composed of magisterial imagery.

Saigon. Thien’s sister-in-law is killed in a motorcycle accident. He reluctantly begins to take care of his nephew, who survived the accident unharmed. After returning the boy to his home village, Thien sets out to find the father, his brother who disappeared years ago. Along the way, mysterious dreams and gripping encounters increasingly confront him with questions about the meaning of life. But you have to see this sensitive film with your own eyes. It has a unique mode of interweaving the big with the small, of following complex choreographed scenes with lightly dabbed snapshots. For his debut, director Pham Thien An employs an imaginative and distinctive film language that flouts all fixed rules. One of the cinema events of the year!

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