Phạm Thiên Ân

Phạm Thiên Ân born November 1989 in Lâm Đồng Province Vietnam is a Vietnamese film director screenwriter and editor He initially studied Information Technology at Hoa Sen University in Ho Chi Minh City before turning toward filmmaking He taught himself cinematography and editing and worked as a wedding videographer experiences that eventually led him to independent cinema His short films include The Mute 2018 which screened at international festivals including Palm Springs Tampere and Uppsala and Stay Awake Be Ready 2019 which premiered in the Directors Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival and won the Illy Prize His feature debut Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell 2023 premiered in Directors Fortnight at the 76th Cannes Film Festival where it won the Caméra dOr for Best First Feature The film subsequently received several international awards including the Young Cinema Award at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards the Roberto Rossellini Best Film Award at the Pingyao International Film Festival the Grand Prize at Tokyo FILMeX and the Silver Screen Award for Best Asian Feature Film at the Singapore International Film Festival In 2024 Phạm Thiên Ân received the Best Director award at the Da Nang Asian Film Festival for Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell In 2026 he returned to the festival as a member of the Asian Competition Jury at its fourth edition He continues to develop new projects while working primarily within Vietnamese cinema