(The Beauty Academy of Kabul)

Content: What happens when a group of hairdressers from America travel to Kabul with the intention of telling Afghan women how to do hair and makeup? This engaging, optimistic documentary tracks a unique development project: a shiny new beauty school, funded in part by beauty-industry mainstays, which sets out to teach the latest cutting, coloring, and perming techniques to practicing and aspiring Afghan hairdressers and beauticians. The American teachers, all volunteers, include three Afghan-Americans returning home for the first time in over twenty years. The Beauty Academy of Kabul offers a rare glimpse into Afghan women’s lives, and documents the poignant and often humorous process through which women with very different experiences of life come to learn about one another.

Countries:

United Kingdom,

United States of America

Genres:

Documentary

Runtime:

74 minutes

Year:

2004

Directors:

Liz Mermin

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Crews:

Executive Producer

Music

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Executive Producer

Producer