On Wednesday, 5th February, we will be showing the feature film Tiger Stripes together with ifs Internationale Filmschule Köln. Tiger Stripes is a feminist horror film from Malaysia and the first Cannes award for a Malaysian female director!

Amanda Eu’s debut feature, which won the Grand Prix at the 2024 Semaine de la Critique, tells the story of a teenage girl who is confronted with adulthood and is immediately stigmatised by conservative society. Through the protagonist’s slow transformation into a tiger, the film slips into the fantastical without losing any of its socio-critical power.

The horror genre is particularly popular with young female cineastes. Especially in recent times, more and more female directors have been using this genre to tell stories of oppression and empowerment.

What is it about Southeast Asian cinema, horror and menstruation? How are aspects of social mechanisms, ethnicity, religion, oral history and storytelling negotiated through this genre? We will discuss these and other questions about contemporary developments in Asian cinema with co-producer Foo Fei Ling.

Tiger Stripes
Director: Amanda Nell Eu
TW / SG / FR / DE / NL / ID / QA 2023 | feature film | 95’

The film will be shown in the original language with German and English subtitles.

Guest: Foo Fei Ling, producer Tiger Stripes and founder of Ghost Grrrl Pictures
Foo Fei Ling is a film producer born and raised in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She is an alumna of Berlinale Talents, Rotterdam Lab and EAVE Ties That Bind. She involved in many independent films in Malaysia since 2008. Her producing works include If It’s Not Now, Then When? (James Lee, 2012) and Voyage to Terengganu (Amir Muhammad and Badrul Hisham Ismail, 2016). In 2019, she and writer-director Amanda Nell Eu set up Ghost Grrrl Pictures, a film company to produce female-centric stories from the Southeast Asian region.

Moderation: Dr. Maxa Zoller (Artistic Director IFFF Dortmund+Köln)

Admission free.

Content note: Contains depictions of violence and violance against animals.

For the »ifs Begegnung« Gender & Diversity program, ifs Internationale Filmschule Köln and Internationales Frauen Film Fest Dortmund+Köln have collaborated to raise awareness of the work of female directors in the cultural sector and at film schools by combining their synergies. In order to stimulate discussion on the subject of gender and diversity, selected feature and documentary films as well as experimental works are regularly screened, and their makers introduced in a subsequent discussion.

A cooperation with ifs Internationale Filmschule Köln and IFFF Dortmund+Köln as part of the Filmforum NRW e.V.