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TIGER STRIPES
TIGER STRIPES

• Director: Amanda Nell Eu
• MALAYSIA, TAIWAN, SINGAPORE, FRANCE, GERMANY, THE NETHERLANDS, INDONESIA, QATAR / 2023 / DCP / Colour / 95’ / Malaysian; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Amanda Nell Eu
• Director of Photography: Jimmy Gimferrer
• Editing: Carlo Francisco Manatad
• Music: Gabber Modus Operandi
• Cast: Zafreen Zairizal , Deena Ezral, Piqa, Shaheisy Sam, Jun Lojong, Khairunazwan Rodz, Fatimah Abu Bakar
• Producer: Foo Fei Ling, Patrick Mao Huang, Fran Borgia, Juliette Lepoutre, Pierre Menahem, Jonas Weydemann, Ellen Havenith, Yulia Evina Bhara
• Production Co.: Ghost Grrrl Pictures 
• World Sales: Films Boutique

2023 Cannes Grand Prix–Critics Week

Malaysian Oscar candidate Tiger Stripes is a visually striking feminist film that overflows with the ominous vibe of the jungle and the precariousness of childhood innocence. Twelve-year-old Zaffan is the class rebel. The first amongst her friends to hit puberty, she discovers a terrifying secret about her body. Ostracised by her friends and townsfolk, Zaffan fights back, learning that to be free she must embrace the body she feared, emerging as a proud, strong individual. A filmmaker who often explores female body, adolescence, mythology, and identity in her work, Amanda Nell Eu’s horror short It’s Easier to Raise Cattle was screened in 2022 at the festival.

*Scenes of violence/sex might disturb some viewers.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.