Nigeria, Sept. 11 -- An online petition to remove from Netflix a movie that shows an 11-year-old girl and her friends dancing suggestively and making overtly sexual gestures has garnered nearly 400,000 signatures.

Cuties is a movie that centres around Aminata, 11, a Senegalese Muslim immigrant in Paris, France, who starts to rebel against her conservative family's tradition and tries to overcome oppression, societal pressure, and patriarchy.

The petition on change.org describes the film as "disgusting as it sexualises an 11-year-old girl for the viewing pleasure of paedophiles and also negatively influences our children. There is no need for this kind of content in that age group, especially when sex trafficking and paedophilia are so r...