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		</div><p>Netflix has defended the controversial film Cuties as “a social commentary against the sexualisation of young children”, and encouraged people to watch the movie before passing judgment.<br />
Critics have blasted the film, which is available on the streaming service, for showing pre-teen girls performing sexualised dance routines.</p>
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<p>The story follows Amy, an 11-year-old Senegalese girl living in Paris who rebels against her conservative family’s traditions when she becomes fascinated with a “free-spirited dance crew”, and dramatises the difficulties of growing up as a young girl in a sexualised media culture.</p>
<p>In a video explaining why she made the film, writer-director Maimouna Doucoure said she considers it be “a deeply feminist film with an activist message” that is a “mirror of today’s society, a mirror sometimes difficult to look into”.</p>
<p>She said she got the idea after seeing a group of 11-year-old girls dancing in a way “you would see in a video clip” during a neighbourhood gathering in Paris.</p>
<p>The director said she spent the next year and a half meeting with hundreds of pre-teens to learn about how they felt about their femininity in today’s society, and how they felt about their self-image in the era of social media.<br />
Doucoure said: “Our girls see that the more a woman is sexualised on social media, the more she’s successful.</p>
<p>“And the children just imitate what they see, trying to achieve the same result without understanding the meaning. And yeah, it’s dangerous.”<br />
She added: “(Amy) believes she can find her freedom through that group of dancers and their hyper-sexualisation. But is that really true freedom? Especially when you are a kid? Of course not. Amy will, at the end, realise she can control her own path.”</p>
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<p>The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2019, where Doucoure won the world cinema dramatic directing award.<br />
A change.org petition calling for people to cancel their subscriptions to the streaming service because of the film has received 600,000 signatures and “#CancelNetflix” has been trending on Twitter.</p>
<p>A Netflix spokesman said: “Cuties is a social commentary against the sexualisation of young children.<br />
“It’s an award-winning film and a powerful story about the pressure young girls face on social media and from society more generally growing up – and we’d encourage anyone who cares about these important issues to watch the movie.”</p>
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