Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Vietnamese: Bên trong vỏ kén vàng) is a 2023 Vietnamese-language drama film written and directed by Phạm Thiên Ân, in his feature directorial debut.

He goes out hunting with his host and bonds with Dao, 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.

Thien leaves the village rather than stick around for an event, and begins aimlessly searching for his missing brother Tam, perhaps to learn of his fate, and tell him that the wife he abandoned was dead and his son needed to be cared for.

The site's critics consensus reads, "Following its own alluringly inscrutable path between past, present, reality, and dreams, Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell rewards patient viewers with an absorbing spiritual odyssey.

[14] Guy Lodge of Variety called it "challenging but seductive art cinema that invites comparisons to such titans as Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Tsai Ming-liang and even Theo Angelopoulos, without feeling derivative of any.

"[15] Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian awarded the movie five stars out of five, describing it as a "jewel of slow cinema (that) is a wondrous meditation on faith and death.