TIGER STRIPES 2023
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Tiger Stripes is a 2023 Malaysian Malay-language body horror film written and directed by Amanda Nell Eu in her directorial debut. The film had its world premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival on 17May 2023 where it won the Critics' Week Grand Prize. It was selected as the Malaysian entry forthe Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards. The film was released in Malaysia censored, and the director has disowned the censored version of the film.
Zaffan, 12, lives in a small rural community in Malaysia. In full puberty, she realizes that her body is changing at an alarming rate. Her friends turn away from her when a mass hysteria hits the school. Fear spreads and a doctor intervenes to chase away the demon that haunts the girls. Like a tiger harassed and dislodged from its habitat, Zaffan decides to reveal its true nature, its fury, its rage and its beauty.
Zaffan, 12, lives in a small rural community in Malaysia. In full puberty, she realizes that her body is changing at an alarming rate. Her friends turn away from her when a mass hysteria hits the school. Fear spreads and a doctor intervenes to chase away the demon that haunts the girls. Like a tiger harassed and dislodged from its habitat, Zaffan decides to reveal its true nature, its fury, its rage and its beauty.