Tiger Stripes

Director: Amanda Nell Eu

2023 / 95min / DCP

Winner of the Critics’ Week Grand Prize at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, Eu’s strikingly stylish directorial debut adds a heaping helping of body horror to a classic coming-of-age story, centered on pre-pubescent Zaffan (Zafreen Zairizal), a spirited, rebellious student at a Muslim school for girls in Malaysia who, with the onset of puberty, develops an odd feeling of kinship with the mysterious woodland creatures that with her own blazing eyes she suddenly sees slithering through the jungle overgrowth, becoming increasingly convinced she’s transforming into one of their number. “Eerie and unsettling, a film about dark things we’re afraid to speak about… The swing between fear and hilarity make for an engrossing ride.” —The New York Times