Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
Singapore Premiere
PHAM Thien An Vietnam, Singapore, France, Spain 2023 182 min NC16 (Scene of Intimacy)
An absorbing treatise into spirituality and the discomfort of deciphering the divine makes its way into the canon of slow cinema.
A transplant to the city is forced to leave Saigon to bring his sister-in-law’s body back to her hometown after an accident. Ill-prepared to be a guardian for his young nephew, Thien searches for his brother who vanished years ago.
This beguiling debut unfurls a gradual and purposeful exploration of theology and self-discovery across the rural hinterlands of Vietnam. “I cannot exist simultaneously in the light and in the dark,” says a former lover who chooses to illuminate her place in the world by taking vows. Thien, on the other hand, drifts through the gauzy past, inexplicable dreams and mysterious Samaritans of the present to find analogies to the divine in this suggestive pilgrimage of an Everyman.
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9 Dec, Sat 11:00AM / 182 min
National Museum Singapore, Gallery Theatre
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Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
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PHAM Thien An
Vietnam, Singapore, France, Spain
2023
Vietnamese
English
182 min
NC16 (Scene of Intimacy)
Singapore Premiere
PHAM Thien An
PHAM Thien An is a Vietnamese director. His work includes short films The Mute (2018) and Stay Awake, Be Ready (2019), which won the Illy Prize for short film at Cannes that year and screened at the 30th SGIFF. His first feature, Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell premiered in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight section and took home the Caméra d’Or.
LE Phong Vu
NGUYEN Thi Truc Quynh
NGUYEN Thinh
TRAN Van Thi
Jeremy CHUA
PHAM Thien An
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