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 ...

Scientists are studying how the argonaut octopus evolved the ability to produce a floating shell-like structure to care for its offspring. By Sofia Quaglia Argonauta Argo is not a typical octopus.

Thien An Pham’s debut feature follows a prodigal son’s search for both his missing brother and something worth living for. An intimate three-hour epic of deliberate pacing, Vietnamese writer-director ...

Thien An Pham's supremely accomplished first feature may seem narratively slender for its three-hour runtime, but its layered abundance of sensory detail casts an unshakable spell. Fully delivering on ...