The Beauty Academy of Kabul
# After decades of war and the Taliban, the women of Afghanistan need... a makeover?
π Overview:
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 womenβs lives, and documents the poignant and often humorous process through which women with very different experiences of life come to learn about one another.
π Languages Available:
English
π Date Released:
2004-05-04
β Running Time:
74 mins
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