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Asian talents score big at Cannes

Six Asian filmmakers bring home big prizes from the recently concluded film festival

From Japan to Malaysia by way of Vietnam, Asian filmmakers of disparate sensibilities triumphed at the recently-wrapped 76th Cannes Film Festival. The Palme d’Or may have gone to French filmmaker Justine Triet from her tense drama Anatomy Of A Fall, but six other awards handed out by the world’s most influential film festival went to filmmakers from Asia, an unprecedented slate of recognition.

Inside The Yellow Cocoon Shell. (Photos courtesy of CANNES FILM FESTIVAL)

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