Tiger Stripes

Showings

The Main 2 Fri, Apr 12 9:40 PM
The Main 2 Mon, Apr 22 4:40 PM
Film Info
Accessibility:HI
Captions:SUB
Festival:MSPIFF43
Festival Programs:Breakthrough
Dark Out
Films by Women
Release Year:2023
Runtime:95 min
Country/Region:Malaysia
Taiwan
Singapore
France
Germany
Netherlands
Indonesia
Qatar
Language:Malay
Print Source:Dark Star Pictures
Trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7lu0KoD5so
Tags:Oscar Submission
Women Directors
Coming-of-Age
Thriller
Fantasy
Asian Frontiers
Horror
Cast/Crew
Director:Amanda Nell Eu
Producer:Foo Fei Ling
Patrick Mao Huang
Fran Borgia
Juliette Lepoutre
Pierre Menahem
Jonas Weydemann
Ellen Havenith
Yulia Evina Bhara
Cinematographer:Jimmy Gimferrer
Screenwriter:Amanda Nell Eu
Editor:Carlo Francisco Manatad
Composer:Gabber Modus Operandi
Principal Cast:Zafreen Zairizal
Deena Ezral
Piqa
Shaheizy Sam
Jun Lojong
Khairunazwan Rodzy
Fatimah Abu Bakar

Description

The first amongst her friends to hit puberty, Zaffan, 12, discovers a terrifying secret about her body. Ostracized by her community, Zaffan fights back, learning that to be free she must embrace the body she feared, emerging as a proud, strong woman.

Zaffan is a rebellious and carefree girl until she starts to experience horrifying physical changes to her body. Struggling to maintain being normal at school, Zaffan is in denial of her inevitable changes and tries to cover herself. Zaffan’s friends attack her, all hysteria breaks loose, and the whole community suspects she’s the cause. Then, like a tiger who has been dragged out of its habitat and poked because we fear it, because we don’t know it — Zaffan decides to finally reveal her true self, her wrath, rage and her beauty, to everyone.