A “first look” image from filmmaker Amma Asante’s upcoming project Where Hands Touch has sparked debate and criticism.

The film, which stars Amandla Stenberg, takes place during the Holocaust. In the past Stenberg has said that Where Hands Touch explores the experience of biracial people during that time. This recently released teaser, however, makes it seem as if the film centers around a romance between Stenberg’s character and a member of Hitler Youth, played by George MacKay, with the Holocaust as a backdrop.

Stenberg has taken to both Instagram and Tumblr to defend the project.

“Oversimplifying, assuming, and jumping to conclusions with little to no actual basis or information is doing y’all no favors,” Stenberg wrote on Tumblr. “Righteous problematic labeling contributes nothing to the world and stifles conversations instead of promoting dialogue. How are we supposed to perpetuate change and defend identity – especially when it is needed so badly in today’s political climate – if we are more concerned with declaring our judgements of others in order to affirm our own righteousness? If we are forming our opinions off of rumor, heresay, and perhaps most alarmingly, agreeing with others just to agree and feel a false sense of virtue and satisfaction?”

“In my eyes, the fundamental values of activism are individual thought and in depth analysis. It strikes me as ironic that those who supposedly lead their lives with these values in their hearts are the same to blindly follow like sheep and make hollow preemptive conclusions.”

“Y’all, I’m out here trying to do the work. I’m not your target. The world is much larger than this bubble. If you jump to conclusions and make generalizations about others out of fear, you are doing the same thing as the people you claim to morally oppose.”

Stenberg also posted another still from the film, showing her character in a concentration camp. She included another detailed caption, explaining more about the film.