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Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

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Thien An Pham / VN, FR, SG, ES, 2023 / 179 min.

Last year, director Phạm Thiên Ân Met won the Camera d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for his contemplative debut film. The second Vietnamese winner in thirty years, following Na Tran An Hung’s The Scent of Green Papaya.

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After his parents have emigrated to the US, Thiện moves from the provinces to the city of Saigon in South Vietnam, where he earns a living directing wedding videos. When his sister-in-law dies in a scooter accident, he has to look after her five-year-old son Dao, whose father disappeared years ago. Accompanied by the coffin and the child, Thiện travels back to his birthplace for the funeral.

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Scenes from this movie may cause fearThis movie contains scenes showing explicit sexThis movie contains scenes with alcohol and/or drug usePersons under 12 years must be accompanied by an adultThis movie contains foul language

Director

Thien An Pham

Production year

2023

Country

VN, FR, SG, ES

Original title

Bên trong vo kén vàng

Length

179 min.

Language

Vietnamese

Subtitles

NLD or ENG

Format

DCP

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Previously Unreleased

Screened at prominent national and international festivals, yet never released in Dutch cinemas. Quite unjustly so, Eye Filmmuseum thinks, and so it has once again brought an exceptional selection of films from international festivals to the Netherlands.

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