Title of film : INSIDE THE COCOON SHELL
Director Name : Pham Thien An
Cast & crew :
Producer : Tran Van Thi,Jeremy Chua
Editor : Thien An Pham
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Synopsis : Thien's sister-in-law Teresa dies in a motorcycle accident in Saigon, although her five-year-old son Dao survives the crash. Thien takes both Dao and his sister-in-law's body to the rural village where he grew up. There, he sees life in the countryside in a series of loosely connected events. A funeral and other Catholic ceremonies are conducted. Thien meets an old man who fought in the Vietnam War, who tells his stories of surviving when so many did not. He goes out hunting with his host and bonds with Dao some, and awkwardly reconnects with Thao, a childhood friend he had attempted to form a romantic relationship with when younger, but who has since become a nun. He arranges for Dao to be taken to the school where she works that is run nuns, where most of the students are highlanders. Thien leaves the village rather than stick around for an event, and begins aimlessly searching for his missing brother: perhaps to learn of his fate, and tell him that the wife he abandoned was dead and his son needed to be cared for. He also learns that his brother had briefly went to seminary and had considered becoming a priest, before deciding to marry instead. He shows a wedding picture of the two found on Teresa's body in a village he thinks might be related, and talks with people, but the search is ultimately fruitless
Director Bio : ham Thien An is a film director, producer and screenwriter, born in Nov 1989 (Lam Dong Province, Vietnam). After four years of undergraduate studies in Information Technology at Lotus University, Ho Chi Minh City, he realized his interest in cinematography and filmmaking. In recent years, he has won several film awards in Vietnam. In 2015, he moved to Houston, Texas (USA) and continued working as a freelance filmmaker. His short film THE MUTE (2018) has travelled across several film festivals (Winterthur, Palms Spring, Uppsala, Encounters…). And also, this year he shot STAY AWAKE, BE READY was support by CJ Short Film Making Project.
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