Malaysian filmmaker Amanda Nell Eu has distanced herself from the cut of her feature film Tiger Stripes, which is being released theatrically in Malaysia on October 19 for one week in an Oscars-qualifying run.
The film, which Malaysia has submitted as its entry for the Best International Feature category of the Academy Awards, also won the Critics Weeks Grand Prix when it premiered at Cannes film festival earlier this year.
Eu says she does not stand behind the cut approved for the Malaysian theatrical release, saying “the film that will be shown in local cinemas is not the film that we made.” Tiger Stripes follows a 12-year-old girl who is the first among her friends to hit puberty, only for her body to start going through a terrifying transformation.
Ostracised by her school friends, she learns to embrace her true self and fight for freedom. Eu is restricted from disclosing the specific scenes that have been cut from the film.
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