Performers inside the Cocoon. Notice the use of silhouettes of the performers. Photo by Stephanie Eichman (all photos courtesy the Cocoon Project) A common harrumph can be heard across the room in any ...

I try not to be too dogmatic these days about telling people that there are certain movies they should see only on the big screen. That said, if there is one movie right now that you should see in a ...

The experience of Vietnamese writer-director Thien An Pham‘s quietly astounding Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell, winner of the Caméra d'Or for best first feature at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, is ...

Phạm Thiên Án’s Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell is a sprawling, three-hour-long odyssey exploring what it means to live, to have faith, and to experience the natural world. The slow-burning feature won ...

Above: A still from Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell by Phạm Thiên Ân, which recently won the Caméra d’Or award at Cannes Film Festival. In 1993, the Caméra d’Or award, reserved by Cannes Film Festival ...

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