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Blood moon whips up patriarchal hysteria in coming-of-age Cannes movie

“Mi Bestia”, which screened at the Cannes Film Festival’s parallel segment ACID, follows a 13-year-old Bogota girl grappling with adolescence amid an impending lunar eclipse said to bring the devil to earth. FRANCE 24 spoke to director Camila Beltrán, whose debut feature offers a visually bold study of patriarchal oppression…

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Tiger Stripes review – entertaining Malaysian horror shows its claws

TikTok meets south-east Asian folklore in Amanda Nell Eu’s fierce directorial debut, an allegory about the onset of puberty

The Guardian - UK

‘It was terrifying – but screw it’: the director who had to disown her film to qualify for the Oscars

Tiger Stripes, about a girl who turns into a jungle cat when her periods start, was chosen by Malaysia as its Oscar entry. But they wanted cuts. Amanda Nell Eu relives a ‘painful and comedic’ experience

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IFFK to screen eight films by women directors

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Tiger Stripes: Malaysia’s censors have ‘removed the essence’ of my film, says director

Amanda Nell Eu’s drama is in the running for an Oscar but conservatism means viewers in her own country will see a version she disowns

The Guardian - UK

Cannes spotlights Cameroonian film: ‘It’s high time African stories influence world cinema’

The Cannes Film Festival delivered its first honours on Thursday with a historic prize for Malaysia’s “Tiger Stripes” while African movies continued to enjoy the Cannes spotlight with the screening of “Mambar Pierrette”, an intimate portrait of a free-spirited seamstress and single mother in Cameroon. Its director, Rosine Mbakam, sat…

France 24

Malaysian tweens earn their ‘Tiger Stripes’ in Cannes coming-of-age body horror

A young girl’s experience of puberty gets the body-horror treatment in Amanda Nell Eu’s playfully rebellious “Tiger Stripes”, the first feature by a Malaysian female director to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. FRANCE 24 spoke to Eu about the making of the movie and its universal message.

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Tiger Stripes review – coming-of-age body horror releases the monster inside

Malaysian director Amanda Nell Eu’s debut about a young girl discovering the truth behind her rebellious nature bristles with supernatural energy thanks to a tremendous young cast

The Guardian - UK

10 films to watch out for

A fierce hijab girl, a Vietnamese pilgrimage, a Scorsese-DiCaprio team up and a new Cate Blanchett drama, Cannes Film Festival opens today with an eclectic taste of world cinema.

Bangkok Post

Indiana Jones among elder statesmen set to descend on Cannes

Martin Scorsese and Ken Loach – as well as a record-breaking number of female directors – have new films premiering at film festival, which starts next week

The Guardian - UK

Malaysian feminist body horror Tiger Stripes to debut at Cannes

Directed by Amanda Nell Eu, the film is the first directed by a Malaysian woman to be invited to the iconic festival.

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