Tiger Stripes (film)

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Tiger Stripes
Tiger Stripes (film) poster.jpg
Promotional release poster
Directed by Amanda Nell Eu
Written by Amanda Nell Eu
Produced by
Starring
  • Zafreen Zairizal
  • Deena Ezral
  • Piqa
  • Shaheizy Sam
  • June Lojong
  • Khairunazwan Rodz
  • Fatimah Abu Bakar
CinematographyJimmy Gimferrer
Edited by Carlo Francisco Manatad
Music byGabber Modus Operandi
Production
company
Ghost Grrrl Pictures
Release date
  • 17 May 2023 (2023-05-17)(Cannes)
Running time
95 minutes
Countries
  • Malaysia
  • Taiwan
  • Singapore
  • France
  • Germany
  • Netherlands
  • Indonesia
  • Qatar
LanguageMalay
Budget€834,000 [1]
Box office€29,200

Tiger Stripes is a 2023 Malay-language body horror [2] film written and directed by Amanda Nell Eu in her directorial debut.

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Tiger Stripes had its world premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival on 17 May 2023 where it won the Critics' Week Grand Prize. An international co-production of eight countries including Malaysia, the film was selected as the Malaysian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards. [3] The film was released in Malaysia censored, and the director has disowned the censored version of the film. [4]

Premise

Zaffan, an 11-year-old girl, starts to experience physical changes to her body when she is going through puberty.

Cast

Production

The film is an international co-production project involving eight countries, including Weydemann Bros from Berlin, Germany, Foo Fei Ling of Ghost Grrrl Pictures from Malaysia, Fran Borgia of Akanga Film Asia from Singapore, and Yulia Evina Bhara of KawanKawan Media from Indonesia. [7] The development of the film began in 2017. [8] During its production, Tiger Stripes had collected seven project development credits, including Open Doors Locarno Festival, Network of Asian Fantastic Films, Talents Tokyo, NMSP Project Development Fund, Hubert Bals Fund Bright Future, Less Is More event, and SEAFIC Lab. [9]

Release

The film had its world premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival on 17 May 2023. [10] It won the award for Critics' Week Grand Prize. [11] It also competed in the Official selection at the 56th Sitges Film Festival, [12] and served as the closing film of 2023 Jakarta Film Week. [13]

In April 2023, Jour2fête acquired its distribution rights in France. [14]

In Malaysia, the film was released on 19 October 2023 only after it had been censored, which prompted the director to disown the film, saying that the released film was not the film that she made and won the prize in Cannes. [4]

It was also invited at the 29th Busan International Film Festival in 'Special program in focus' Teenage Minds, Teenage Movies section and it will be screened in October 2024. [15]

Critical reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 97% of 60 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.9/10.The website's consensus reads: "A clever and stylish riff on the body horror that is puberty, Tiger Stripes is an exuberant allegory for personal agency as well as an impressive debut for writer-director Amanda Nell Eu." [16] Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 68 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. [17]

Fionnuala Halligan of Screen International described the film as "a well observed, fiercely female-centred coming-of-age drama". [6] Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian rated the film with three stars out of five and praised Nell Eu's direction and the younger cast's performances. [5]

Accolades

AwardDate of ceremonyCategoryRecipient(s)ResultRef.
Cannes Film Festival 27 May 2023 [lower-alpha 1] Critics' Week Grand PrixAmanda Nell EuWon [19]
Caméra d'Or Nominated

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ The award ceremony of the 62nd Critics' Week was held on 24 May 2024. [18]

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