12-year-old Zaffan is the school rebel, and lives carefree until she starts to experience horrifying physical changes to her body.
The first amongst her friends to hit puberty, Zaffan finds herself ostracised by her community, but fights back as she learns that to be free she must embrace the body she feared, emerging as a proud, strong woman.
Crossing the complexities of female friendships and cultural identities with universal truths about growing up – and winning the Critics' Week Grand Prize at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival – Tiger Stripes is a stylish, fiercely female-centred coming-of-age body-horror, and the feature debut from director Amanda Nell Eu.
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