CANNES, France - A Malaysian movie with a gruesome and funny look at puberty won the top award of the Cannes Film Festival's Critics' Week.
Amanda Nell Eu's "Tiger.
“Tiger Stripes,” a Malay-language arthouse horror film, became the first Malaysian film to win the main prize for best feature at Cannes' Critics' Week, a sidebar to the famed Cannes Film Festival dedicated to first or second films.
Amanda Nell Eu’s Tiger Stripes will be the first film by a Malaysian woman filmmaker to feature at the Cannes Film Festival. The director tells the Post about her fascination with the horror genre.